Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] the [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain has been subject to the same decline in long-stay beds and has responded in the same way as other European countries to this fall in the mental hospital population . |
| 2 | In linking the resourcing of the school library to specific curriculum developments , and in making grants only to those schools whose plans comply with specified criteria , the local authority has acted in the same way as such central government agencies as the Department of Education and Science ( DES ) and the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) . |
| 3 | A pattern has evolved in her writing schedule : when she has reached about the half way stage of the book , she will get together with her editor Rosie Cheetham and her agent Christine Green to discuss progress . |
| 4 | It is difficult to quantify buying patterns , but I can say that American buying has dipped in the same way that European and non-European buying has dipped . |
| 5 | The proposition is that had these four countries remained outside the EC , their intra- trade in manufactures would have developed in the same way as their extra-trade . |
| 6 | We can imagine that , if we believed what the Calvinists believed , we would have behaved in the same way . |
| 7 | Any man who had to endure what you endured might have reacted in the same way ’ ( our emphasis ) . |
| 8 | Two of his sisters and many of his relatives over three generations had died in the same way , indicating that the condition may be inherited . |
| 9 | According to Castle gossip , he had behaved in the same way towards the Major 's predecessor . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Where a road which bears all the marks of having been laid out by the enclosure commissioners makes , at longish intervals , a sudden right-angled bend , sometimes two bends in quick succession , one can be pretty certain that though it was planned by the commissioners it follows an even older line from one village to the next , a line which had deviated in the same way around the heads of medieval furlongs . |
| 12 | And although the dominant enterprises in this sense have undoubtedly grown considerably in size , by any measure , over the post-war years it is not obvious that the operating units have grown in the same way . |
| 13 | Sociologists wanted to have their results accepted as scientifically accurate , have worked in the same way , but not always successfully , when dealing with people , is not always to easy to think of all the things which may affect the result . |