Example sentences of "[verb] much the [det] function " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Council for Civil Liberty , which later became the National Council for Civil Liberty , fulfilled much the same function for mainly middle-class people interested in this subject , and worried by the threat made by fascism to cherished freedoms . |
| 3 | Tied cottages , indeed , performed much the same function as the closed village in Victorian times , by enabling farmers to ensure that their expenditure on housing was limited as far as possible to guaranteeing their own labour requirements . |
| 4 | It is thus clear that the practice of was not without importance from the earliest days of the state and that in Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih — perhaps also in the elusive Elvan Fakih and others there were men who performed much the same function as later Muftis ; but so scanty and uncertain is the available information about this early period that one can not confidently assert the existence , still less the continuity , of an officially designated post of Mufti . |
| 5 | This is a market for the sale and repurchase of government bonds and serves much the same function as the lending of stock in the UK . |