Example sentences of "[verb] much the same [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the Hena villagers , in their ordinary lives , led much the same sort of existence as the Goigama villagers . |
| 2 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 3 | The opposition leader , Mr Vaclav Havel , made much the same point about the new Prime Minister by stating that he had failed to attract much attention over two years in government office . |
| 4 | For example , an HP buyer could make much the same sort of claim against his finance company over faulty goods as the Sale of Goods Act would have allowed against a shop . |
| 5 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
| 6 | The mechanism of change , the cultural ‘ instruction ’ as Cloak ( 1975 ) calls it , has much the same function in the historical process as genes have had in biological evolution , but the ‘ instruction ’ in cultural change is usually an acquired behavioural injunction existing in a world of meanings : the cognitive , although not always conscious , appreciation of their social environment by a human community . |
| 7 | RCT , based in Arizona , is a non-profit making trust fund , and has much the same relationship with US academic institutions as BTG has with UK ones . |
| 8 | Mr Irvine has much the same difficulty within AT&T as the management does . |
| 9 | Figure 5.13 shows the same data for the Focused model which , although it has much the same proportion of grid squares with differences in excess of 1000 people , now gives a total range from -4799 to +8339 . |
| 10 | It has much the same sort of fascination as a dictionary , or a encyclopedia . |
| 11 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |
| 12 | Indeed , much of the evidence suggests that , even if Mansell had not actually braked early , he had perhaps lifted his foot from the throttle , which has much the same effect in an F1 car . |
| 13 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 14 | English seems to obtain much the same effect with the to infinitive as subject . |
| 15 | He then uses much the same repertory of colours and patterns and fin displays as he did for aggression , but in a female these trigger a series of different responses that eventually culminates in the laying of eggs . |
| 16 | Both resolve to wait until the GP has performed the pregnancy test before telling anyone , even though the GP 's pregnancy test uses much the same sort of chemistry as the commercial one and is hardly more reliable or definitive . |
| 17 | In 1985 , Anthony Burgess , perhaps even more controversially , explored much the same territory in The Kingdom of the Wicked . |
| 18 | Crows may do much the same sort of thing as buzzards and eagles but , since there are so many of them , the luckless crows are ignored . |
| 19 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 20 | The Council for Civil Liberty , which later became the National Council for Civil Liberty , fulfilled much the same function for mainly middle-class people interested in this subject , and worried by the threat made by fascism to cherished freedoms . |
| 21 | Orwell was not alone in observing that England was two , three or four nations ; J. B. Priestley had already made much the same observation in his English Journey . |
| 22 | The Pekinel sisters are unfortunate in that Justus Frantz and Christoph Eschenbach cover much the same ground on two mid-price CDs instead of three full-price ones . |
| 23 | The subsidy rolls show much the same profile on the Sussex Downs and coastal plain , though , with trifling exceptions , assessments below £1 were not made , and most below £2 were on wages . |
| 24 | The Salvadorean Feminine Front pursues much the same line with vitriolic attacks on the United States and the armed forces for imposing a provisional president ( Alvaro Magana ) after the March 1982 elections , who was not the ARENA candidate . |
| 25 | To refer to a method we shall be discussing more fully in Chapter 3 , we can see much the same sort of development with respect to the survey . |
| 26 | Donald Trelford , editor of the Observer , was told much the same thing by Gaddafi in a further interview a month or so later . |
| 27 | While field men still enjoy much the same degree of contact with their immediate superiors ( the area supervisors ) , senior staff are now distant and unseen . |
| 28 | The Moon is in synchronous rotation around the Earth , and therefore within the limitations imposed by its orbit always shows much the same face to the Earth . |
| 29 | Visualize how it is going to fit in with its neighbours : the stems may be rough-trimmed , but you will prune them later in early spring , not now , and then the new growth will follow much the same line of the present branches . |
| 30 | The second day 's play followed much the same pattern of the first , the difference being Humphreys Davies ' three set victory over Lisa Albano . |