Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] much the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The post-1979 managerial emphasis in central administration was not wholly new : indeed , it started from much the same principle as Fulton — that civil servants needed to adopt a more business-like approach and drew upon a number of Fulton 's ideas about departmental organization ( see Chapters 1 and 2 ) . |
| 32 | Thus , we are prompted to suppose that an unspecified industrial strategy on the one hand is so like matters of health and safety for the purposes of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , or like employment protection for the purposes of the Employment Protection Act 1975 on the other , as to amount to much the same kind of thing as they are ; and so to accept the view that , just as the second is a subject for joint regulation by management and unions or of prior discussion between management and unions , so too should the first . |
| 33 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
| 34 | But an army marches on its boots and relies on much the same footwear as the soldiers of the past . |
| 35 | With rents normally frozen at an obsolete level , entry fines were either certain , or , if technically arbitrary at the will of the lord , required by custom to be reasonable , which amounted to much the same thing . |
| 36 | He has asked for much the same amount of money , divided up in the same way : two-thirds of the money to criminal-enforcement efforts , one-third to treatment . |
| 37 | The equally earnest Anglo-French Declaration of 1918 promising the Arabs of former Ottoman colonies their independence if they supported the Allies against the Turks fell into much the same category , although it was not a promise that was intended to be kept . |
| 38 | Scott thinks that landowners no longer form a distinctive group within the upper classes : the growth of ‘ agribusiness ’ has meant that agriculture is run in much the same manner as any other business . |
| 39 | Though it has remained in much the same place , it has undergone very extensive modifications and these have profoundly influenced the distribution of its wildlife . |
| 40 | Shingles are fixed in much the same way as timber cladding , except that special nails have to be used ( which are supplied with them ) and they should not come in contact with the metals usually used on flashings . |
| 41 | They are fixed in much the same way that ceramic tiles are stuck to internal walls , but using a special adhesive mortar suitable for outdoor use . |
| 42 | Otherwise , boards can be fixed in much the same way as timber , nailing to timber battens , but with special stainless steel fixings . |
| 43 | Her hair was black , like her daughter 's , and seemed to be cut in much the same shape , and she was wearing a purple dress . |
| 44 | The mechanism of inheritance was cracked using non-behavioural traits , but we can reasonably infer that behaviour is inherited in much the same way as are other , more thoroughly studied properties of organisms . |
| 45 | This is , I suspect , the beginning of a process that will lead to much the same outcome as was brought about by the hundreds of Government amendments — sometimes running into four figures — that have been tabled to similar Bills . |
| 46 | Mountaineering in the Pyrenees began , early in the nineteenth century , with the very practical ascents made by the mappers and surveyors , but it continued , in climbers such as Russell , with something of the flair and eccentricity with which it was also evolving at much the same time in the Alps . |
| 47 | A flood of consumer legislation passed at much the same time included the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 , the fair Trading Act 1973 , the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 . |
| 48 | There were other ways of arriving at much the same conclusion but one logical consequence was that the non-biblical " gentiles " and the " savages " were lumped together as a kind of historical residue of " first men " . |
| 49 | Thus the operation of discretion by juvenile liaison officers is structured by much the same variables as with the section police : ‘ It all depends upon their attitude . ’ |
| 50 | Although enterprise zones have been the most important of the liberalizing initiatives , other developments fall into much the same category . |
| 51 | For example , conditions necessary for seeds to germinate were often studied in much the same way by successive age groups . |
| 52 | Mirror tiles are fitted in much the same way as other types of wall tile — that is , you secure a horizontal batten to the wall , lay the first row of tiles on it , sticking each one to the wall with double-sided self-adhesive pads . |
| 53 | Fear of illness , death or pain can be handled in much the same way . |
| 54 | Printer Sharing is handled in much the same way — the owner makes a printer available , and a remote user specifies it as a network printer in the Printers control panel , attaching it to , say , LPT3 on his own machine . |
| 55 | Most other story ballets can be analysed in much the same way . |
| 56 | They will almost certainly be used by specialists while all the basic material is created in much the same way as now , then transferred across to be assembled into the final document . |
| 57 | However , it is doubtful whether state pensions policies were the prime cause of this decline since it continued at much the same rate after 1948 as it had done before . |
| 58 | The question of why we want it is a psychological one , which we answer by much the same means . |
| 59 | The change involved no religious problems because the larger colony had been launched for much the same reasons : a number of Puritans , of whom the largest single group came from East Anglia , had formed the Massachusetts Bay Company and obtained a charter to settle there in a firm determination to cut themselves off from England and the elements of Roman Catholicism they detected in the Church of England . |
| 60 | It was engaging with much the same processes as those later explored by Goffman , Harré and those working from a symbolic interactionist position . |