Example sentences of "'s much the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's much the same as ever , ’ said Shirley . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course he wrote music , ’ Haverford explained patiently , ‘ but it 's much the same thing . |
| 4 | ‘ My father 's much the same , ’ Aubrey said . |
| 5 | Or if it is , and you keep it too long , it stops being important , and that 's much the same thing . |
| 6 | And the outlook for tomorrow 's much the same : cloud in the east , sunny spells in the west . |
| 7 | Erm secretary 's report , it 's much the same as last year er , we had two trips this year two coach trips one to the Yorkshire Aquarist Festival in Ap was it April ? |
| 8 | It 's much the same attitude that meant Darlington fans at Torquay last Saturday had to pay £6 to stand behind the goal , a quid more than the home crowd . |