Example sentences of "[verb] much the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1961 it was already overwhelmingly the nation 's ‘ main activity ’ in the evening , and the BBC study establishing that fact produced much the same figures when repeated in 1975 ( BBC , 1976 ) . |
| 2 | Anyway , they taste much the same , and last year beetroot soup was added to the menu . |
| 3 | The higher price being paid for environmentally sound produce also means that , despite the smaller crop , his income will stay much the same . |
| 4 | All told , government policy across the board will clearly stay much the same . |
| 5 | Nevertheless the Hena villagers , in their ordinary lives , led much the same sort of existence as the Goigama villagers . |
| 6 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 7 | The basic problems , however , remain much the same . |
| 8 | Documents containing both text and simple graphics can be created using much the same equipment except that a graphics screen will now be essential in order to see the charts and graphs . |
| 9 | As I have suggested , up to a generation ago a common form of life united sixth-form and university English , regardless of whether their orientation was ‘ Oxford ’ or ‘ Cambridge ’ , since the latter made much the same assumptions about literacy and competence as the former . |
| 10 | The opposition leader , Mr Vaclav Havel , made much the same point about the new Prime Minister by stating that he had failed to attract much attention over two years in government office . |
| 11 | Although various thinkers before him had formulated much the same basic principle of utility as basic to ethics none had used it so systematically as the basis for rethinking all moral and social arrangements . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the early years of the reign of Henry VIII the Council , benefiting from the inexperience of the new King , probably gained weight while pursuing much the same business as before . |
| 14 | The ages range from 4300 Ma to 4900 Ma , and dust from maria sites displays much the same range as dust from highland sites . |
| 15 | The Higgs boson , Minister , plays much the same role as the photon , but in a different context . |
| 16 | The next two areas in the list of uses-management and administration , and using office programs — come together in that both involve much the same hardware and software . |
| 17 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
| 18 | I would have trusted him to be here at this discussion and say much the same things other people here would be saying . |
| 19 | The mechanism of change , the cultural ‘ instruction ’ as Cloak ( 1975 ) calls it , has much the same function in the historical process as genes have had in biological evolution , but the ‘ instruction ’ in cultural change is usually an acquired behavioural injunction existing in a world of meanings : the cognitive , although not always conscious , appreciation of their social environment by a human community . |
| 20 | Figure 5.13 shows the same data for the Focused model which , although it has much the same proportion of grid squares with differences in excess of 1000 people , now gives a total range from -4799 to +8339 . |
| 21 | It has much the same sort of fascination as a dictionary , or a encyclopedia . |
| 22 | Technically the Flydaway has much the same characteristics as a tram . |
| 23 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |
| 24 | Indeed , much of the evidence suggests that , even if Mansell had not actually braked early , he had perhaps lifted his foot from the throttle , which has much the same effect in an F1 car . |
| 25 | RCT , based in Arizona , is a non-profit making trust fund , and has much the same relationship with US academic institutions as BTG has with UK ones . |
| 26 | ‘ First general circulation ’ has much the same meaning . |
| 27 | Mr Irvine has much the same difficulty within AT&T as the management does . |
| 28 | They do not suddenly appear out of nowhere or on the pages of a language textbook — which has much the same effect — but in varying sizes and on varying materials : out of ticket machines , on computer screens , under windscreen wipers , on hoardings . |
| 29 | The fact that ‘ emergency cases ’ apart , no medical treatment of an adult patient of full capacity can be undertaken without his consent , creates a situation in which the absence of consent has much the same effect as a refusal . |
| 30 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |