Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] much the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHAIRMAN Sir Peter Parker was doing his best , but the 1980s opened with much the same worries of insecurity over government policy , lack of investment , and working practices which harked back to the old company rules . |
| 2 | The post-1979 managerial emphasis in central administration was not wholly new : indeed , it started from much the same principle as Fulton — that civil servants needed to adopt a more business-like approach and drew upon a number of Fulton 's ideas about departmental organization ( see Chapters 1 and 2 ) . |
| 3 | With rents normally frozen at an obsolete level , entry fines were either certain , or , if technically arbitrary at the will of the lord , required by custom to be reasonable , which amounted to much the same thing . |
| 4 | The equally earnest Anglo-French Declaration of 1918 promising the Arabs of former Ottoman colonies their independence if they supported the Allies against the Turks fell into much the same category , although it was not a promise that was intended to be kept . |
| 5 | However , it is doubtful whether state pensions policies were the prime cause of this decline since it continued at much the same rate after 1948 as it had done before . |