Example sentences of "[adv] the same sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is basically the same sort of thing as the filled legs on a horse that has stood in . |
| 2 | In ( 1 ) above this gives rise to an impression of a prospective event , of a desire or longing on the part of the speaker to realize the action denoted by the infinitive , so that the to infinitive produces basically the same sort of impression in this first type of exclamation as in He struggled to get free : it evokes a prospective non-realized event . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His statement — ‘ A lending library after all is only a means of delivering a commodity to consumers in pretty much the same sort of way as a supermarket . |
| 6 | It has much the same sort of fascination as a dictionary , or a encyclopedia . |
| 7 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |
| 8 | → I would add to N B Cherry 's letter by saying that of course modern guitar design owes an awful lot to the pioneer designs of the ‘ 40s and '50s in very much the same sort of way that the modern motor car owes a great deal to its predecessors — that is to say , four wheels , petrol driven internal combustion engine etc. , etc. , you get my drift . |
| 9 | Language teachers can be seen as involved in very much the same sort of process — their principles correspond to hypotheses , their techniques to experiments . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The other Prendergast sketchbook in the collection , known as the Large Boston Public Gardens Sketchbook , is very much the same sort of thing but more fully worked , with numerous full-page watercolour sketches , possibly intended as presentation pieces to demonstrate his abilities to future patrons . |
| 12 | But surely Stevenson greatly underestimates the place which the attitude theory can allow for rationality in ethics of much the same sort as is thought desirable in science , history or philosophy . |
| 13 | The author has come to an overall conclusion that , perhaps , clients and dealers are very much the same sort of people . |
| 14 | Pretty much the same sort of shit was coming down at AMS , if we 'd gone looking for it , and of course it was happening all over town at well-known locations : St Mary 's , St Andrew 's , St Anne 's . |
| 15 | Nevertheless the Hena villagers , in their ordinary lives , led much the same sort of existence as the Goigama villagers . |
| 16 | There are many functions that are common to 99% of all spreadsheet applications , in much the same sort of way that a word processor has to have certain abilities . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We would want this to be seen logically , through approval of the structure plan , to be taken up in r in the relevant local plan , and for that relevant local plan to then sort out competing claims from prospective developments , in mu in much the same sort of exercise as we 've seen in the structure plan but obviously in a more detailed way . |
| 19 | say what people have said about them so , you know , it seems to be much the same sort of thing . |
| 20 | They wear more , more or less the same sort of er material through the year . |
| 21 | Quantum mechanically the same sort of experiment , using electrons instead of marbles and an electric rather than gravitational barrier , does not produce such clear-cut results . |
| 22 | None the less , Fabry-Perot experiments seem to give rise to broadly the same sorts of instability as those predicted from ring cavity analyses . |
| 23 | But I 've seen pictures of Holiday in a beaded sheath just like that , taken well before the war , and publicity shots of some of those French singers or chanteuses coming down staircases in just the same sort of thing even earlier in the century . |
| 24 | Raising a languid hand towards a grey-haired woman seated in an armchair beside the dog , and who looked as though she might patronise just the same sort of charity shops as Ellie herself , he introduced , ‘ My mother . ’ |
| 25 | He found it and rang it , giving exactly the same sort of excuse as Eleanor 's . |
| 26 | This does not alter the fact — and it is imperative to grasp this — that even if there has been no alteration or amendment whatever , and every word is identical , with exactly the same sort of type and format , a new edition is created every time there is a new setting of type . |
| 27 | And meanwhile Greece has to reckon with the fact that Turkey , on the other side of the Aegean , is planning to lure exactly the same sort of middle-class tourist with exactly the same combination of sunshine , classical ruins and mildly exotic food — and , it must be added , with lower costs and beaches many of which are less in need of de-whiffing . |
| 28 | This was particularly for people who have not been in hospital , but who may have exactly the same sort of needs as the people who are the focus of the particular project . |
| 29 | Exactly the same sort of behavior is found for an atom with a single p-level vacancy . |
| 30 | Likewise , the behaviour of galore should receive a historical explanation of exactly the same sort , being derived from the Gaelic gu leòr , an adverbial phrase that can be translated literally as to sufficiency . |