Example sentences of "the same [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the same way that man can not live under water , so while people are totally immersed in the water , it is as if they are dead . |
| 32 | In the same way that cars need fuel to help them move , we all need fuel to keep our bodies going . |
| 33 | I once went to the trouble of having a pair made in the finest white doeskin but fortunately I have now outgrown such extravagances in much the same way that I have outgrown the petty conversations and banal posturings of those who frequent literary gatherings or , worse , television studio canteens . |
| 34 | In the same way that coins with mint names can be used to identify sites , so datable coins can be used to date objects or structures found in association with them . |
| 35 | The discovery of Italian bronze coins of the third century BC in the area of modern Yugoslavia may perhaps indicate the presence there of individual pilgrims , tourists , soldiers or traders from Italy , in much the same way that the presence of hundreds of thousands of Islamic silver coins in Viking hoards of the eighth to tenth centuries is a reflection of the eastward penetration of Viking traders , who exchanged objects such as furs , slaves and amber for silver coinage . |
| 36 | Small children can sometimes be persuaded to eat cow cake in the same way that old people will eat cat food , but the chief result of all this farming was to produce huge food mountains which we could then refuse to give to the Third World , or to the socialists of Eastern Europe , in order to teach them the error of their ways . |
| 37 | They do not promise change in the sense of progress ; they promise change in the same way that the apparatchiks of yesteryear want the Communists back in the Kremlin . |
| 38 | Most Muslims and Croats in Bosnia believe the Yugoslav army , whose officer corps is now almost completely Serbian , is helping Serbs to capture territory in the republic in much the same way that they backed Serbs in the Croatian civil war . |
| 39 | In the same way that the latter introduces , almost unconsciously , knowledge of the origin of words and the structure of a sentence , so playing on damp or drying pitches fills the gaps in a developing batsman 's technique . |
| 40 | J. B. Watson in 1914 and other behaviourist thinkers ( Hull , Skinner ) believed that an acquired behaviour element , the conditioned reflex for example , could be made to account for all behaviour , because such an element could be treated as a ‘ building block in theory much in the same way that nineteenth-century physicists used ‘ atoms ’ to build up a theory of matter . |
| 41 | The metaphysician uses the word ‘ substance ’ of the ‘ thing itself ’ , and thinks of its various properties as attached to it in much the same way that garments become attached to a clothes horse . |
| 42 | Trent sensed that he was being inspected in the same way that Louis had examined his hands ; as an abstract entity ; a tool , at most ; briefly useful , but , once used , to be discarded without further thought . |
| 43 | The devil , Trent thought , and found himself smiling as he realised that continual fear had acted as a drug , lifting him free of reality in the same way that marathon runners broke through the pain barrier into an almost hallucinatory state of calm . |
| 44 | New entrants to the profession and those seeking a new appointment will , though , have to be astute , in the same way that parents exercising parental preference are being encouraged to be . |
| 45 | Whilst Rodinal may not be looked upon as a standard developer by the photographic industry in the same way that Ilford 's ID-II and Kodak 's D-76 are regarded , it is interesting to note for instance that Ilford list , among other developers , Rodinal at a 1:25 dilution , complete with recommended developing times , for its new Delta-400 high-speed emulsion at normal , pull 1-stop and push 1-stop exposure indices . |
| 46 | One can not prove in the same way that senior bureaucrats do not implement effective conservation because there is no extra financial inducement and it could involve them in embarrassing political contradictions . |
| 47 | After all they are just names in the same way that ‘ gravy ’ is the name for a brown fluid that is poured over meat . |
| 48 | This stage can be difficult , in the same way that teenagers are difficult for human parents . |
| 49 | This is true in the same way that our ideal of what God can do in our lives is counterpoised by the actual human condition we find ourselves in . |
| 50 | He comes alongside us and takes on our humanity , in order for us to see him , in the same way that the intensity of the sun is scaled down to the ray of light through the window . |
| 51 | Rather in the same way that the mite of scabies sets up an allergic reaction , in certain people infected with candida an intense irritation occurs , which may be quite out of proportion to the degree of infection . |
| 52 | Is it really possible for a woman to break a man 's penis in the same way that one can break a wrist or an arm ? |
| 53 | ‘ Coronation Street and The Smiths go hand in hand in the same way that you could couple Frankie with Brookside — two necessary focal points of each city , at least for those south of the ship canal and the Mersey . |
| 54 | This , I must confess , is quite sexy , in the same way that young , handsome joiners with their belt of tools strung low round their hips can make an impressionable adolescent girl want to have shelves erected . |
| 55 | They thought there was one wave that was meant just for them , in the same way that marriages were supposed to be made in heaven . |
| 56 | He expressed his feelings so many times in the same way that when he could not see me I would find myself mouthing the words with him : ‘ The thing that worries me is bandits and deep sand . ’ |
| 57 | It needs to be something that is talked about in the same way that racism and sexism are talked about . |
| 58 | In the same way that notions of old age are structured by social and economic policies , concepts of health are similarly socially constructed ; there is no simple definition of either health or illness . |
| 59 | I enjoy the actual hunt in the same way that a fisherman enjoys casting his fly or bait near a fish that he has seen in the hope of catching it . |
| 60 | Subject bibliographies are therefore the raw materials of the trade of stock revision , and librarians working on stock revision should seek to acquire a working knowledge of their existence and contents in the same way that a reference librarian is familiar with the major reference tools in the collection . |