Example sentences of "[vb pp] much the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But Morton Pitt 's Preventive Station and the Battery would have looked much the same 30 years earlier . |
| 3 | I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess . |
| 4 | She had felt much the same herself of late , restless , needing to work off that restlessness , only she had n't had the same opportunities to indulge herself . |
| 5 | If she had discovered that Tina could have said much the same she would have been deeply upset . |
| 6 | He told me he 'd said much the same to you . ’ |
| 7 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 8 | Orwell was not alone in observing that England was two , three or four nations ; J. B. Priestley had already made much the same observation in his English Journey . |
| 9 | George Shultz , the bluff and portly secretary of state , evidently thought much the same . |
| 10 | Robyn had thought much the same on numerous occasions but she was n't about to give him the satisfaction of letting him know that . |
| 11 | The many thousands of bodies in the ruins all told much the same story , of practically instantaneous death when the searing hurricane from Mt Pelee reached them . |
| 12 | Donald Trelford , editor of the Observer , was told much the same thing by Gaddafi in a further interview a month or so later . |
| 13 | Last night , the old man had seemed much the same as ever , but in daylight the effect of the intervening twenty years was cruelly apparent . |
| 14 | It had entailed much the same fuss and anger as the now-and-then Sunday dinners : Rachaela recruited to peel vegetables , make crosses on the thousands of sprouts . |
| 15 | However , a number of other authors ( for example , Alberro , 1981 ; Kormendi and Meguire , 1984 ) have employed something like the Lucas approach using data from more countries , and have generally found much the same result as that reported in Lucas . |
| 16 | The latest issue of the Government 's annual Social Trends shows that while the level of rail travel has remained much the same for 30 years , car travel has increased fourfold . |
| 17 | The principles of stressing and testing aircraft have remained much the same from the days of wooden biplanes down to supersonic fighters although there are many differences in practice . |
| 18 | Previous binaural recording systems have followed much the same path as Zuccarelli 's holophonics . |
| 19 | The Central African Federation , embracing the Rhodesias and Nyasaland , had broken up under African nationalist pressures at the end of 1960 ; the West Indies Federation had gone much the same way during 1961 ; and South Africa had become a republic and left the Commonwealth that year . |
| 20 | John Stuart Mill later expressed much the same view . |
| 21 | It may well have been the case that at this time , only a few months into the venture , the women were being paid much the same wage as boy apprentices at the same stage , and this would therefore explain why the delegate meeting decided merely to try to apply the same rule as , in theory at least , limited apprentices " numbers . |