Example sentences of "the [adj] way as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the IBA would not run Channel Four as a franchise in the same way as it ran the other regional companies , but would instead own it . |
| 2 | Are we , therefore , to understand that the trade preferred to maintain a low-profile presence on the high street , in much the same way as it does now ? |
| 3 | When your skin is burned , your body responds in the same way as it does to any other injury : going into ‘ over-drive ’ to quickly replace the burnt areas with new skin . |
| 4 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act applies to hire-purchase contracts in exactly the same way as it does to contracts of sale of goods . |
| 5 | Section 17 applies to ascertained goods in exactly the same way as it does to specific goods . |
| 6 | Catalysts can help control pollution from such vehicles — an oxidation catalyst removes unburned fuel and carbon monoxide in much the same way as it does on a petrol car . |
| 7 | It felt heavy and lifeless , in much the same way as it had felt that day in Spain when he had gone off the road . |
| 8 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 9 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 10 | Some people claimed to have seen the sun turn in the sky , in the same way as it had when the miracle occurred so many years before . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , let's just say that it 's crossed your mind that maybe , maybe if you stay long enough in this place it 'll get to you in the same way as it got to me . |
| 12 | The EEC offered West Germany and its booming economy a huge outlet for its industrial goods , in the same way as it offered France some export benefits for its large agricultural sector . |
| 13 | But it argues ministers should hesitate before going further with the publication of information that could be misused in the same way as it says occurred with published exam results . |
| 14 | They follow a pattern in which each sentence ends nearly exactly the same way as it begins : |
| 15 | ‘ Our Dublin plant has consistently failed to produce the expected results , and it is this unfortunate experience which will weigh heavily against any further investment in Eire ; in much the same way as it has weighed heavily against the UK . |
| 16 | WHILE the rest of the country is still trying to grapple with the effects of the recession , Las Vegas , the desert oasis created by gambling , continues to boom and prosper in much the same way as it has always done . |
| 17 | The practice of medicine is carrying on the same way as it has done before but we 're addressing issues like quality and standards and timing and waiting lists in a way we have n't done before . |
| 18 | It can treat classes of related terms in the same way as it treats strong and weak stems : include them all , but ensure that co-occurrences of related terms in a record do not contribute multiply to the weight of the record . |
| 19 | Generally speaking , the law in California in this area developed in the same way as it did in England . |
| 20 | The current flowing through the shunt is again controlled by an error detecting system in much the same way as it did in the series case , though the sense of the control has the opposite sign . |
| 21 | The associative process did not work with Rufus in quite the same way as it did with his erstwhile friend , Adam Verne-Smith , for Adam was an ‘ arts ’ person and he a scientist , so that Greek or Spanish names , for instance , evoked none of it . |
| 22 | The Fund would review the Soviet economy in the same way as it did the economies of members , would provide the Soviet Union with technical assistance on agreed projects , would invite a Soviet representative to appropriate IMF executive board and other meetings and would " give favourable consideration " to requests from union republics for the extension to them of similar undertakings . |
| 23 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 applies to these analogous contracts in the same way as it applies to contract of sale of goods . |