Example sentences of "behave [prep] the same way " in BNC.

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1 This behaved in the same way as the first unit , so I took this one back and got a third …
2 We also tested an unrelated human osteosarcoma-derived cell line ( 13.1 ; M.P.K. and G. Attardi , unpublished observations , and ref. 18 ) , and it behaved in the same way : the cells could be induced to undergo apoptosis by either serum deprivation or staurosporine treatment , and they were protected by transfection with bcl-2 ( not shown ) .
3 Starving people have frequently refused to eat food that is foreign to them , and horses will behave in the same way .
4 At the moment it seems our American friends had the right of it , but we are still working with the wild-caught fish and quite often these do not behave in the same way as tank-raised fish do .
5 It does not follow that if subjects are induced to behave in a certain way within the idealized limits of experimental control , they will behave in the same way when these limits are relaxed .
6 With most sentences , particularly non-observational sentences , no clear answer will emerge because the natives will not all behave in the same way in the same conditions .
7 Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do !
8 Guy ( 1980 ) has concluded from his study of final stop deletion that the individual follows the group norm very closely ; but since we know that scores for different linguistic variables are not distributed within or between groups in a comparable way , we can not conclude that all variables will behave in the same way as the syllable-final alveolar stop .
9 Do they behave in the same way syntactically , or , to put it more accurately , do topics , like themes , have no syntax ?
10 Some program upgrades do truly behave in the same way as their predecessors but this is the exception rather than the rule !
11 On a smaller scale , the electrical forces that cause the electrons to orbit round the nucleus in an atom would behave in the same way as gravitational forces .
12 We have noted that , given a certain type of search space , the A* algorithm may behave in the same way as breadth-first search , since the latter is a special case of the former .
13 Perhaps because horses are relatively large , and therefore hard to ignore , people tend to behave in the same way in the presence of a horse .
14 How can he have the nerve to stand there calm and composed and expect me to behave in the same way ? she thought angrily .
15 Thus under certain conditions we can expect A* to behave in the same way as breadth-first search .
16 Fundamentally however , all objects such as ‘ chapters ’ , ‘ sections ’ , ‘ entries ’ , ‘ acts ’ and ‘ scenes ’ , ‘ cantos ’ etc. seem to behave in the same way : they are incomplete in themselves , and often nest hierarchically .
17 Pious shock and horror was expressed at this frailty in the face of temptation — far more so than at the evidence that men behaved in the same way .
18 According to Castle gossip , he had behaved in the same way towards the Major 's predecessor .
19 We can imagine that , if we believed what the Calvinists believed , we would have behaved in the same way .
20 The 24-year-old buxom blonde who ‘ gave her favours freely to young village schoolboys ’ was told by Mr Justice Sheldon , ‘ If a man had behaved in the same way with girls of this age he would have ended up with a long prison sentence ’ .
21 Firstly , a young horse may not have formed a habit of accepting things as they are and automatically always behaving in the same way .
22 Whistling in the wind , that had been , because they had settled for half , and never recovered from the shame of behaving in the same way as the typists and fitters and laboratory assistants .
23 In the latter case , whether or not explicit communication takes place , each firm has to decide on the choice of action which is in its own best interest in the light of the fact that the others are behaving in the same way : we have a non-co-operative game .
24 All wild creatures behave in the same way when presented with a cache of food and plenty of competition for it .
25 The boys play the role of husbands and behave in the same way as they see their fathers do in their respective homesteads .
26 These defensive routines are organisational in the sense that individuals with different personalities behave in the same way ; and people leave and new ones come into the organisation , yet the defensive routines remain intact .
27 A stallion that behaves in the same way is psychologically more threatening to us , but it is best to respond with tact — to stroke the horse briefly and then to leave it in peace .
28 It is a recognised fact amongst seamen that no ship , even when built by the same yard to identical plans , ever behaves in the same way .
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