Example sentences of "way as [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The T/V distinction found in every European language except English provides the classic example of this , while English is , according to Lyons , a particularly clear example of how status , while clearly indicated in paralinguistic ways as Pulgrum indicates , need not be indicated in the grammar ( Lyons , 1977 ) . |
| 2 | The substitution worked both ways as Surgeon drove in a low cross for Canning to crash home a spectacular equaliser in the 64th minute . |
| 3 | Can I make a suggestion to you , that I think that if you go through these you will come to the conclusion that there are two ways for doing this and one is that for example the majority of the ones that Stella 's got where she feels she can make the decision it is only going to affect her you come in with it already done , redlined new where you think there is going to be some discussion , you go through , you put together in the same way as Simon has done reasoning around it . |
| 4 | Sometimes the workmanship in these archaic stone artefacts was very fine , and it is possible that they were used as insignia of rank , in much the same way as stone maces in the Wessex Culture in southern England ; if so , it is curious that the same obsolete tool became associated with rank in two cultures that were geographically so widely separated . |
| 5 | Motif edges do have to be bound with the main yarn in the usual way as work progresses . |
| 6 | But erm and that presumably one could say that in the same way as Stalin did but that erm Trotsky 's idea was much nearer to Marx . |
| 7 | He is giving Gascoigne the platform to perform in the same way as France built a side around Michel Platini , and Argentina around Diego Maradona — the latter never more evident as when they won the World Cup in 1986 . |
| 8 | Namely , that the Spirit acts for , and in , and against men in precisely the same way as Jesus had done when on earth . |
| 9 | The effects of war , however , could also prove potentially damaging in a new way as England became more closely involved with the wider economy in western Europe ; a slump in exports , even if this were due to factors outside English control , could lead to domestic unemployment , and in the 1520s complaints were made about this in the textile areas of Suffolk ( Ch.4 ) . |
| 10 | With uncertain optimism , the report concludes that ‘ if this were to be achieved , we consider that prosperity , once created , could spread in the same way as blight has done in the past ’ . |
| 11 | Rain entering the soil disturbs the equilibrium in the same way as water added to the top of the capillary tube or towel ; water drains through the unsaturated zone to the water table . |
| 12 | Non-cooperation , as Gandhi understands it , does not always have to be an act of love in the same way as satyāgraha has to be , but it is in act of love and consequently a branch of satyāgraha when it seeks to promote the good of a wrongdoer . |
| 13 | He scuttled out of the way as Emmie lunged at him and ran into his own room , banging the door . |
| 14 | Platies and other livebearers do n't pair up in the same way as cichlids do — keeping them in pairs would be a waste of time , as they 're unfussy about which partner they choose to breed with . |
| 15 | What is questionable is whether Gandhi hypostasizes Religion or gives it a referential connotation in the same way as Tillich does by his use of the term Ultimate Concern . |
| 16 | These represent districts , or wards , within each authority in much the same way as MPs represent constituencies . |
| 17 | This is a major meditative speech brooding on the loneliness of the man caught between action and passivity — thinking aloud in much the same way as Hamlet does in his many renowned arias on the soul and the theme of revenge . |
| 18 | The original version of Illustrator picked up several awards but neither was nor is a mainstream graphics tool in the same way as MacDraw has become . |
| 19 | Perhaps one should keep a picture of hideous confusion pinned to the kitchen door in the same way as slimmers keep a fat photo taped to the fridge as a deterrent to snacking . |
| 20 | Christine Griffin ( 1985 ) looked at a group of girls in the same way as Willis had looked at the boys . |
| 21 | Many of these items are transient and date in much the same way as slang does , so that they then have connotations of certain historical periods as well . |
| 22 | Thus if trustees are to be changed during a tax year in order to export the trusts overseas , only gains made after the end of the tax year ( 5 April ) in which the export took place would be gains made by a foreign trustee ; gains made on or before 5 April would be taxable upon the trustees in the normal way as gains made by UK trustees . |
| 23 | Streets are blocked and atheism has to give way as people kneel in the streets and cross themselves with the sign of the Holy Trinity . ) |
| 24 | Owners and vets rarely like to consider the possibility of psychosomatic problems with horses , in much the same way as people do not like to admit to suffering from them themselves . |
| 25 | In the same way , we may hear the horse 's neigh that demands breakfast or dinner , and when dinner has n't arrived immediately the demand is raised higher and more imperiously , in much the same way as people do . |
| 26 | In much the same way as people talk about being God fearing . |
| 27 | There was a trinity within everyone , consisting of the three powers of the soul which corresponded to the three divine Persons : memory , understanding and will ; it enabled us to be , to know and to love what we are in the same way as God knows and loves himself . |
| 28 | Even then , Jobs predicts , illegal copies will circulate , but computer companies will be able to cost piracy in much the same way as shops cost shoplifting — as part of their business plans . |
| 29 | However , because thermosetting plastics consist essentially of an irregular three-dimensional network of molecules , something like glass , they have quite a low work of fracture — seldom more than 100 J/m 2 and usually much less — and so they behave mechanically in much the same way as glass does . |
| 30 | Orcs do n't have kingdoms or countries in the same way as Men do , but there are nevertheless areas where Orcs or Goblins are very definitely in control . |