Example sentences of "[adv prt] much the [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the period before 1984 our analyses rely on much the same evidence as the Black report , though more complete registration data are now available . |
| 2 | Whispering Robert Wyatt drifts in and out of ‘ Saratoga ’ , as the Marine boys continue in much the same vein as their splendid LP . |
| 3 | The 3-Colour pattern option operates in much the same way except that it knits colour one , colour two , colour three and colour four before moving on to the next pattern line . |
| 4 | Even thirty years later , when she was quite old enough to know it was n't her fault , that a house did n't burn down because a girl threw a skull into a horse pond , she still cried in much the same way when she thought of it . |
| 5 | WHILE the rest of the country is still trying to grapple with the effects of the recession , Las Vegas , the desert oasis created by gambling , continues to boom and prosper in much the same way as it has always done . |
| 6 | This process seems to occur in much the same way as a plan position indicator in a radar system monitors the movement of targets recorded on the radar sets by reference to the stable map of the background locality . |
| 7 | Several Members told me that most still speak in much the same way as they did before the cameras were introduced , and that is certainly my own impression when I watch them on television . |
| 8 | Orientation operates in much the same way as the intelligence test used to … its particular value being that its apparent scientific objectivity made it an excellent means of justifying selection . |
| 9 | In other words , the stripes function in much the same way as the patterns on football shirts in human sports groups . |
| 10 | The patent operates in much the same way as a title deed to property , except that the ‘ property ’ can not be alienated . |
| 11 | Sedges behave in much the same way as grasses , having their stripes neatly arranged along the leaf . |
| 12 | Fender have called this control ‘ Loudness ’ for two reasons : one , because it varies the amp 's loudness , and two , since it operates in much the same way as a stereo system 's ‘ loudness ’ control , boosting both bass and presence to create more palatable tones at low volume settings . |
| 13 | The latest variants on royalty structures use branches of a Dutch company , which operate in much the same way as finance branches , and rely on exemptions to avoid tax at full rates in the Netherlands . |
| 14 | After resting and lazing for nearly an hour , after the children had slid down enough dunes , chased enough birds , fallen in the water enough times , we returned in much the same way as we started out , except this time Maha leapt into the boat and would not move . |
| 15 | Those who contemplated a new war thought about it in much the same way as a later generation thought about nuclear war : most of Peter Watkin 's film The War Game could have been made in the 1930s . |
| 16 | Willetts suggests that the cults of the goddesses Britomartis and Diktynna were connected , and that Britomartis and Diktynna were related to each other in much the same way as the later Persephone and Demeter . |
| 17 | In his concern to endow his sons adequately , Edward behaved in much the same way as other members of landowning society , and although he exploited the marriage market for the benefit of his own family he did not monopolize it : both the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of March gained substantially from the king 's bestowal upon them of wealthy heiresses . |
| 18 | The water company then charges you in much the same way as the gas and electricity companies do . |
| 19 | To gain information from sites and finds , they have to be treated as evidence , and information has to be deduced from them in much the same way as a detective uses forensic evidence . |
| 20 | This will be a series of reasoned , relevant points made in much the same way as a lawyer presents a case in a court of law , though your case will not be as one-sided as a lawyer 's and your judge will be the reader or teacher ! |
| 21 | The thermal printer works in much the same way as an impact matrix printer in that instead of a column of needles in the printing head it has a column of heating elements . |
| 22 | Electronically both types of printer operate in much the same way as a conventional impact matrix printer with the pattern of dots being taken from a ROM . |
| 23 | Holding the idea that we are good , that we are lovable , that we are cared for , seems to act in much the same way as a tranquillizer . |
| 24 | Recently our campaign on mental health problems showed that these people can recover in much the same way as people who have physical health problems . |
| 25 | Was the Queen about to warn her in much the same way as Simon de Villiers had done ? |
| 26 | My conjecture , therefore , is that bats " see " in much the same way as we do , even though the physical medium by which the world " out there " is translated into nerve impulses is so different — ultrasound rather than light . |
| 27 | Even if the court can not point to the actual error , nevertheless , if the figure is so extravagantly large or so inadequately small that the only conclusion is that he must have gone wrong somewhere , then the court will interfere in much the same way as the Court of Appeal will interfere with an award of damages if it is a wholly erroneous estimate . |
| 28 | However , after the initial account of his feelings , the narrator uses 'sand " in much the same way as " flock " in the passage describing Lok : it too seems closer to underlexicalisation than to metaphor . |
| 29 | The rest of the week passed in much the same way as that first day . |
| 30 | According to Le Matin , Joffre ( responding in much the same way as he had to General de Langle earlier ) , said ‘ let him do what he wants ’ and then went back to sleep . |