Example sentences of "much the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
| 2 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 3 | In their different ways , Hanson and ICI are doing much the same thing : running a portfolio of businesses . |
| 4 | ‘ Much the same thing as we used to do . |
| 5 | ‘ Unless you keep on trying to develop your own personal work , your own personal style , trying to find out where your main sympathies lie and what subjects you really like to work with , you end up purely being a commercial photographer shooting pretty much the same thing year in year out . |
| 6 | Much the same thing occurs in New Statesman & Society , but there is a significant shift here in that we begin to see cultural products ( or rather questions raised by them ) being discussed outside of the journal 's cultural space — in the editorials and in guest journalists ' comments . |
| 7 | Less than 12 months after Steve Pate was pulled out of the Ryder Cup singles on medical grounds much the same thing happened at the recent PGA Cup match at Kildare . |
| 8 | Hogarth was doing much the same thing , though for the less fashion-conscious end of the market . |
| 9 | One can imagine the expulsion to Earth ( of Melkor ) and the expulsion to Middle-earth ( of Galadriel ) coming , in a mind like Éomer 's , to seem much the same thing . |
| 10 | He wrote about his own temptations , and came close to presenting the revolt of the Noldor as a felix culpa , a ‘ fortunate sin ’ , when Manwë accepts that their deeds will live in song , so that ‘ beauty not before conceived [ shall ] be brought into Eä ’ ; fiction , poetry , craftsmanship are seen as carrying their own justification and as all being much the same thing . |
| 11 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's pretty much the same thing that is happening in my body . ’ |
| 13 | Provided you know how to use it , a cheap hand-held version will do much the same thing . ’ |
| 14 | It seems more likely that the knot symbolized the bond between the communicant and the deity , or that it was an attempt to bind the deity by magic , which is much the same thing . |
| 15 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc was told pretty much the same thing ( UX No 434 ) . |
| 16 | When he said much the same thing at the end of the Council , Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the right-wing were up in arms at this ‘ humanism ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We are saying much the same thing when we derive the antithesis between sexuality and civilization from the circumstance that sexual love is a relationship between two individuals in which a third can only be superfluous or disturbing , whereas civilization depends on relationships between a considerable number of individuals . |
| 20 | ( Of course , much the same thing could be said of every American orchestra . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course he wrote music , ’ Haverford explained patiently , ‘ but it 's much the same thing . |
| 22 | A much later , much more sophisticated critic , Ortega y Gasset , said much the same thing : |
| 23 | ’ Speaking for myself , I read that very broadly as giving the judge who makes a residence order the jurisdiction to attach conditions , or directions which I think are very much the same thing , as to how the children should be cared for and where they should be once the residence order has been made . |
| 24 | Or if it is , and you keep it too long , it stops being important , and that 's much the same thing . |
| 25 | Donald Trelford , editor of the Observer , was told much the same thing by Gaddafi in a further interview a month or so later . |
| 26 | And by coincidence , while this little episode is happening in downtown Deptford , in uptown we have very much the same thing . ’ |
| 27 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Creppiny , Mr Chairman , ’ she corrected him irritably ) said much the same thing , but took longer to do so . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They were both quiet for a long time both thinking much the same thing : was such a pretence a way of beginning or would it destroy the might have-been ? |
| 30 | Much the same thing can be said of the to infinitive denoting something which is actualized as a consequence of causation ( cause , force , occasion , get , order , tell ) , assistance ( help ) , discovery ( find ) , daring , etc . |