Example sentences of "[adv prt] much the same [noun] as " 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 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 In other words , the stripes function in much the same way as the patterns on football shirts in human sports groups .
8 The patent operates in much the same way as a title deed to property , except that the ‘ property ’ can not be alienated .
9 Sedges behave in much the same way as grasses , having their stripes neatly arranged along the leaf .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 The water company then charges you in much the same way as the gas and electricity companies do .
17 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 .
18 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 !
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Was the Queen about to warn her in much the same way as Simon de Villiers had done ?
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 The rest of the week passed in much the same way as that first day .
28 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 .
29 In much the same way as people talk about being God fearing .
30 In much the same way as we 've got we 've just got ta go away and do some questioning ourselves erm get amongst it an say okay can we do some of these things more effectively ?
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