Example sentences of "[adv] [art] 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 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | He found it and rang it , giving exactly the same sort of excuse as Eleanor 's . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Exactly the same sort of behavior is found for an atom with a single p-level vacancy . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |