Example sentences of "[adv] much the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firearm of the infantry soldier of World War I was the bolt-action rifle , and the rifles of all the armies were fundamentally much the same . |
| 2 | Well I 've been in the Daily Mail 's office , presumably much the same . |
| 3 | Ah well more or less much the same as it is today . |
| 4 | The temperature of his skin was so much the same as mine I hardly knew we touched , yet I remained very still , my hands laid on his shoulders with the exaggerated formality of one learning to dance . |
| 5 | You look just much the same as your usual , you do n't |
| 6 | However , the broad features of the transition process are always much the same , and , if we omit quantitative detail , can be described without reference to any particular jet . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | After the first thirty years of operation of the NHS , however , there had been disappointingly little change ; in 1976 , the Court Report noted that the variations in regional provision of service were still much the same as they had been in 1948 when the NHS began . |
| 9 | The situation was still much the same when Hegarty and his colleagues ( 1981 ) carried out their study of LEA integration schemes . |
| 10 | They carry both cargo and people ; the two travel under much the same conditions , and are generally indistinguishable by journey 's end . |
| 11 | The majority of Latin American governments have to operate under much the same constraints and , although nationalist tendencies have intermittently rendered this factor advantageous to the USSR , it has more consistently worked against Moscow . |
| 12 | Memory suggests that at Berwick Rangers v Alloa the weather ( perishing ) and the crowd ( 277 ) were both much the same as for that earlier multi-national misadventure . |
| 13 | ‘ The chances of being libelled in a big way are probably much the same as winning the football pools , and the results are very much the same . ’ |
| 14 | The more sophisticated Greeks were thus made to regard man in pre-Trojan times as much the same as his distant offspring , and this tended to demythologize the Greek legends , thereby placing the past in quite a new perspective . |
| 15 | be arranged so that the environment of the sound within the lists is as much the same as possible , i.e. same stress pattern , same CV pattern , words with short and long segments kept separate ( especially with regard to the sound that is being checked ) . |
| 16 | To keep the environments as much the same as possible is a good general principle — it highlights the feature that is to be practised . |
| 17 | Whether you are starting to decorate a first home , have just moved into a new place or are redecorating an existing room , the problem is often much the same : not so much how to arrange things as how to fill up big blank walls and table or shelf surfaces when you do n't seem to have very much to use and certainly very little to spend . |
| 18 | But if they were then given a choice of several kinds of seeds they would show sudden switches in preference , even though the seeds were chemically much the same . |
| 19 | Another attraction in being an RIE is its " status " , in the eyes both of exchange participants and government authorities ; here , RIE and exchange status are indeed much the same thing , both in theory and practice . |
| 20 | As Dawkins pointed out in the passage quoted earlier , nerve impulses look pretty much the same whatever ‘ information ’ they are carrying . |
| 21 | And what I was doing then was also pretty much the same as now looking forward to the future . |
| 22 | It consists of pretty much the same dishes found in simpler households , but will be made with more expensive ingredients , made smaller and more delicate , with almost no chilli , and served in particularly exquisite porcelain , silver and gold . |
| 23 | The actors were pretty much the same as for The Trip — Susan Strasberg , Bruce Dern and , this time , there was a role for Nicholson , for whom that ever-popular name of Stoney was resurrected . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Blood alcohol levels rise at pretty much the same rate in infrequent and habitual drinkers . |
| 27 | It had pretty much the same kind of reputation as Rialto , only more so . |
| 28 | ‘ The beginning of our show goes pretty much the same each night . |
| 29 | If you went to see him in the '60s and you go and see him now , it 's pretty much the same ; he holds true and keeps his tradition . |
| 30 | Outside , it 's pretty much the same story , so quality of workmanship is well up to expectation . |