Example sentences of "much the same sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crows may do much the same sort of thing as buzzards and eagles but , since there are so many of them , the luckless crows are ignored . |
| 2 | Both resolve to wait until the GP has performed the pregnancy test before telling anyone , even though the GP 's pregnancy test uses much the same sort of chemistry as the commercial one and is hardly more reliable or definitive . |
| 3 | His statement — ‘ A lending library after all is only a means of delivering a commodity to consumers in pretty much the same sort of way as a supermarket . |
| 4 | It has much the same sort of fascination as a dictionary , or a encyclopedia . |
| 5 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |
| 6 | → I would add to N B Cherry 's letter by saying that of course modern guitar design owes an awful lot to the pioneer designs of the ‘ 40s and '50s in very much the same sort of way that the modern motor car owes a great deal to its predecessors — that is to say , four wheels , petrol driven internal combustion engine etc. , etc. , you get my drift . |
| 7 | Language teachers can be seen as involved in very much the same sort of process — their principles correspond to hypotheses , their techniques to experiments . |
| 8 | For example , an HP buyer could make much the same sort of claim against his finance company over faulty goods as the Sale of Goods Act would have allowed against a shop . |
| 9 | The other Prendergast sketchbook in the collection , known as the Large Boston Public Gardens Sketchbook , is very much the same sort of thing but more fully worked , with numerous full-page watercolour sketches , possibly intended as presentation pieces to demonstrate his abilities to future patrons . |
| 10 | But surely Stevenson greatly underestimates the place which the attitude theory can allow for rationality in ethics of much the same sort as is thought desirable in science , history or philosophy . |
| 11 | The author has come to an overall conclusion that , perhaps , clients and dealers are very much the same sort of people . |
| 12 | Pretty much the same sort of shit was coming down at AMS , if we 'd gone looking for it , and of course it was happening all over town at well-known locations : St Mary 's , St Andrew 's , St Anne 's . |
| 13 | Nevertheless the Hena villagers , in their ordinary lives , led much the same sort of existence as the Goigama villagers . |
| 14 | There are many functions that are common to 99% of all spreadsheet applications , in much the same sort of way that a word processor has to have certain abilities . |
| 15 | To refer to a method we shall be discussing more fully in Chapter 3 , we can see much the same sort of development with respect to the survey . |
| 16 | We would want this to be seen logically , through approval of the structure plan , to be taken up in r in the relevant local plan , and for that relevant local plan to then sort out competing claims from prospective developments , in mu in much the same sort of exercise as we 've seen in the structure plan but obviously in a more detailed way . |
| 17 | say what people have said about them so , you know , it seems to be much the same sort of thing . |