Example sentences of "[v-ing] much the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She was expressing much the same sentiments as Bob Boothby had expressed in his last letter to me , and which I have heard other old people express too . |
| 4 | In areas where there are a number of pumice deposits present , all of them looking much the same , it 's clearly a difficult job to tell them apart and , more important , to recognize the same individual deposits in separate localities which may be many kilometres apart . |
| 5 | They are unhappy with the idea of a Universe that has not existed infinitely looking much the same as it does today — the same consideration which fuelled the Steady State Theory . |
| 6 | In any one place the two species mimic each other , looking much the same ; but in different places the members of a species differ : both species vary geographically in the same manner . |
| 7 | The bay to his left was labelled ‘ Fiction A-H ’ , and to his right was the cash desk looking much the same as it must have done on the day the shop was first opened . |
| 8 | Within this continuum , however , other proverbs are planted , sounding much the same as the others but more original and so closer to Tolkien 's own intention . |
| 9 | By 1988 , total US aid since 1981 had risen to some US$3 billion , with the pattern of allocations remaining much the same . |
| 10 | The majority were arboreal frugivores occupying much the same niche as equivalent-sized monkeys today . |
| 11 | She was the best horse at Ascot where she got disqualified and she was brilliant at Sandown when people said she would n't handle going much the same as it will be at York . ’ |
| 12 | Facing much the same problem in 1929 , a Labour government agreed to introduce the Alternative Vote ( AV ) . |
| 13 | Latterday Marxist interpreters of Shakespeare are doing much the same as the conservative proponents of the Elizabethan World Picture did thirty or forty years ago , though with a different conceptual model . |
| 14 | In their different ways , Hanson and ICI are doing much the same thing : running a portfolio of businesses . |
| 15 | Hogarth was doing much the same thing , though for the less fashion-conscious end of the market . |
| 16 | Under the scheme holders of government bonds could choose to exchange them for South Sea Company shares , and the government would pay interest on these bonds to the South Sea Company at a lower rate than it paid previously — the South Sea Company was doing much the same thing as the East India Company , providing the government with a loan at a reduced rate of interest in exchange for overseas trading privileges . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , in a studio in north London , Geoffrey Winston of Thumb Design Partnership , seems to be doing much the same . |
| 18 | Brigadier Hillary-Jones has nephews and nieces doing much the same . |
| 19 | When he arrived he was doing much the same thing since he was n't as naïve about the values of the secret world as she assumed : assuring himself there was nothing to suspect and being careful not to find any signs of it . |
| 20 | But when he looked over his shoulder , expecting Eve to be doing much the same , she was heading in quite a different direction . |
| 21 | This enables him to preside over the process which I have described with the minimum of overt interference , the constriction of the budgetary limits performing much the same role as the balance of supply and demand in a market system . |
| 22 | ( Her aunts had been saying much the same kind of thing to her all her life , I believe . ) |
| 23 | We are saying much the same thing when we derive the antithesis between sexuality and civilization from the circumstance that sexual love is a relationship between two individuals in which a third can only be superfluous or disturbing , whereas civilization depends on relationships between a considerable number of individuals . |
| 24 | 2 Two or more words normally associating with each other and having much the same meaning as the nominal phrase , eg the very poor , a summit meeting . |
| 25 | The BBC 's local stations were kept at 20 , and the IBA was authorized to licence up to 60 , reaching much the same total percentage audience . |
| 26 | The similarity of subject-matter between Picasso 's Horta landscapes and those which Braque was executing at exactly the same time at La Roche Guyon ( that is to say in mid 1909 ) enables one to appreciate with clarity the fact that , although they were reaching much the same conclusions , it was for different reasons . |
| 27 | Meanwhile other studios were learning much the same lessons , albeit for somewhat different reasons . |
| 28 | ‘ We were playing much the same clubs as before in a very similar competition . |
| 29 | Dixon 's mention of clothes had pulled his mind back to the discovery of Kemp 's body , and he asked Lewis much the same question he had asked Max , receiving much the same answers . |
| 30 | They were both quiet for a long time both thinking much the same thing : was such a pretence a way of beginning or would it destroy the might have-been ? |