Example sentences of "[adv prt] much the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | The afternoon wore on much the same as the morning , only more slowly . |
| 2 | After all , despite what the judge had said Britain still went on much the same , Berlin was still a divided city ( and was later to become even more so ) and Russia seemed no more or less secure . |
| 3 | Clive returned to England almost immediately to go into Parliament and keep an eye on East India Company policy in London , but his followers — whose idea of moderation ran on much the same lavish lines — remained in control of Bengal . |
| 4 | Many small town craftsmen worked on much the same plan . |
| 5 | For the period before 1984 our analyses rely on much the same evidence as the Black report , though more complete registration data are now available . |
| 6 | Ælfric wrote on much the same lines . |
| 7 | If the wind can be trusted to stay in much the same direction , safe parking is an easy matter . |
| 8 | What is new however is the suggestion , which at the time of writing must have appeared as the height of impertinence , that the Greek and Roman states originated in much the same kind of confederation as the Iroquois . |
| 9 | Father Christmas , however , operates in much the same way , and when both celebrities were planning to meet up , in December 1987 , to deliver Christmas presents to sick children at Great Ormond Street Children 's Hospital , there was no competition . |
| 10 | In 1923 , when the Liberals found themselves in much the same situation as Mr Ashdown is hoping for today , Asquith told them that they ‘ were not sent here by your constituents to play the part of soldiers of fortune ’ , but that was exactly the part they found themselves playing then , and will find themselves playing now if we get a hung Parliament , and they will be unsuccessful mercenaries at that . |
| 11 | WHILE the rest of the country is still trying to grapple with the effects of the recession , Las Vegas , the desert oasis created by gambling , continues to boom and prosper in much the same way as it has always done . |
| 12 | ‘ The cholera toxin operates in much the same way ’ , Wright says , ‘ however , there have been no reported fatalities ’ . |
| 13 | This process seems to occur in much the same way as a plan position indicator in a radar system monitors the movement of targets recorded on the radar sets by reference to the stable map of the background locality . |
| 14 | The metaphysician uses the word ‘ substance ’ of the ‘ thing itself ’ , and thinks of its various properties as attached to it in much the same way that garments become attached to a clothes horse . |
| 15 | Buildings behave in much the same way . |
| 16 | Several Members told me that most still speak in much the same way as they did before the cameras were introduced , and that is certainly my own impression when I watch them on television . |
| 17 | Orientation operates in much the same way as the intelligence test used to … its particular value being that its apparent scientific objectivity made it an excellent means of justifying selection . |
| 18 | They are still much the same in appearance as they were then , and farmed in much the same way , although tractors have now replaced teams of oxen . |
| 19 | Feral dogs in the Italian environment behave in much the same fashion as wolves . |
| 20 | In other words , the stripes function in much the same way as the patterns on football shirts in human sports groups . |
| 21 | In effect they will be assessing you in much the same way that you make your own self-assessment and then trying to match you to jobs in the way that you should do when applying for jobs directly . |
| 22 | The patent operates in much the same way as a title deed to property , except that the ‘ property ’ can not be alienated . |
| 23 | Bell and his colleagues now believe these were caused by head-on fights with opponents , who appeared to lunge at each other in much the same way that present-day crocodiles do , but with more apparent gusto , using strong jaws to tear at each other 's snouts . |
| 24 | Sedges behave in much the same way as grasses , having their stripes neatly arranged along the leaf . |
| 25 | Fender have called this control ‘ Loudness ’ for two reasons : one , because it varies the amp 's loudness , and two , since it operates in much the same way as a stereo system 's ‘ loudness ’ control , boosting both bass and presence to create more palatable tones at low volume settings . |
| 26 | The latest variants on royalty structures use branches of a Dutch company , which operate in much the same way as finance branches , and rely on exemptions to avoid tax at full rates in the Netherlands . |
| 27 | In other countries where readership is similarly very limited and where the high cost of imported newsprint and machinery and the paucity of advertising revenue combine in much the same way to exclude the private investor , the government has to become involved if a local press is to exist . |
| 28 | After resting and lazing for nearly an hour , after the children had slid down enough dunes , chased enough birds , fallen in the water enough times , we returned in much the same way as we started out , except this time Maha leapt into the boat and would not move . |
| 29 | Those who contemplated a new war thought about it in much the same way as a later generation thought about nuclear war : most of Peter Watkin 's film The War Game could have been made in the 1930s . |
| 30 | These stress trajectories can be thought of , more or less , as strings under tension and they will try to straighten in much the same way . |