Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] much the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The similarity of subject-matter between Picasso 's Horta landscapes and those which Braque was executing at exactly the same time at La Roche Guyon ( that is to say in mid 1909 ) enables one to appreciate with clarity the fact that , although they were reaching much the same conclusions , it was for different reasons . |
| 2 | Meanwhile other studios were learning much the same lessons , albeit for somewhat different reasons . |
| 3 | ‘ We were playing much the same clubs as before in a very similar competition . |
| 4 | Indeed post-elementary Hadow schools into which many of them were moved into after 1926 were offering much the same education as the old elementary schools had offered for those children between the ages of eleven and fourteen before 1926 . |
| 5 | She was expressing much the same sentiments as Bob Boothby had expressed in his last letter to me , and which I have heard other old people express too . |
| 6 | Donald Trelford , editor of the Observer , was told much the same thing by Gaddafi in a further interview a month or so later . |
| 7 | Hogarth was doing much the same thing , though for the less fashion-conscious end of the market . |
| 8 | Under the scheme holders of government bonds could choose to exchange them for South Sea Company shares , and the government would pay interest on these bonds to the South Sea Company at a lower rate than it paid previously — the South Sea Company was doing much the same thing as the East India Company , providing the government with a loan at a reduced rate of interest in exchange for overseas trading privileges . |
| 9 | When he arrived he was doing much the same thing since he was n't as naïve about the values of the secret world as she assumed : assuring himself there was nothing to suspect and being careful not to find any signs of it . |