Example sentences of "much the same reasons " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also liked the occasional drink , for much the same reasons . |
| 2 | It is natural to consider the dynastic marriage policies of this period in the same context as warfare , since both were engaged in by the kings and great nobles for very much the same reasons ( see pp. 456–7 ) . |
| 3 | And ethnicity turns into separatist nationalism for much the same reasons as colonial liberation movements establish their states within the frontiers of the preceding colonial empires . |
| 4 | Of course these superior critics disliked the way his films displayed ‘ the grossest sentimentality ’ , but this was the price that had to be paid for his mass popularity and after all , as William Hunter reminded his readers , Dickens had been far more sentimental for very much the same reasons . |
| 5 | We may have moved on from the steel nib and the blackboard , but are we not educating our children for much the same reasons as we were 50 years ago ? |
| 6 | The change involved no religious problems because the larger colony had been launched for much the same reasons : a number of Puritans , of whom the largest single group came from East Anglia , had formed the Massachusetts Bay Company and obtained a charter to settle there in a firm determination to cut themselves off from England and the elements of Roman Catholicism they detected in the Church of England . |
| 7 | More recently , and for much the same reasons , Stelux , from Hong Kong , bought the Bulova Watch Company in the USA . |
| 8 | For much the same reasons we are quite satisfied that there is nothing in the Act which affects in any way the processes by which decisions as to suspension and disbarment , and so on are to be taken and promulgated through the machinery created by the Inns in 1986 with the concurrence of the judges , subject always to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 9 | Britain therefore experienced a credit squeeze in the early 1990s during a period of recession in much the same way — and for much the same reasons — that she experienced a credit boom during the period of growth and ‘ overheating ’ in the mid-1980s . |
| 10 | Denmark joined the EEC for much the same reasons as the British did : she wished to ensure that she was not excluded from a large ‘ home ’ market , particularly for her agricultural products . |