Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] the [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freedom of expression was treated in the same way : ‘ Any man may … say or write whatever he likes , subject to the risk of , it may be , severe punishment if he publishes any statement ( either by word of mouth , in writing or in print ) which he is not legally entitled to make ’ . |
| 2 | Unlike in the private sector , borrowing for investment was treated in the same way as borrowing to finance current spending ( on labour or raw materials ) . |
| 3 | The severity of oesophagitis in patients with Barrett 's oesophagus was classified in the same way as in other patients and depended on the endoscopic appearance of the oesophageal mucosa above the neosquamocolumnar junction . |
| 4 | This monopoly was defended in the same way as that of the East India Company : the Royal Africa Company had to meet the expenses of building and manning forts on the West African coast as protection against other Europeans , and private traders could not have undertaken fixed costs of this sort . |
| 5 | Parent 's social class and occupation was coded in the same way as the information on birth certificates . |
| 6 | All that the king-duke had to do was to legislate in the same way — to try to anticipate French edicts , or to follow them immediately with his own . |
| 7 | The plump girl , who had been so full of life , was killed in the same way as the earlier victims . |
| 8 | The north face was Gothick , the south strictly Classical , and the interior was divided in the same way ; the whole effort was a considerable visual pun on the pretensions of many of his neighbours . |