Example sentences of "much the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The level of detail may seem much the same as in a catalogue raisonné , but the stress falls in a different way . |
| 2 | A piece of oral history may be meant to do without a presiding historian in much the same way in which an analytic session may be meant to do without a presiding analyst ; theoretical presuppositions are subject in each case to a show of suspension , though it is clear that the theories of Freud and others will be present in the consulting-room , and that oral historians may be sympathetic to socialism and to the methods of Marxist historiography . |
| 3 | This is a major meditative speech brooding on the loneliness of the man caught between action and passivity — thinking aloud in much the same way as Hamlet does in his many renowned arias on the soul and the theme of revenge . |
| 4 | Not so much the compromises , the deceits , the hypocrisies affecting his work , his women , his children , even his friends , but the sense of despair and failure hovering over him , as though he was trapped and did n't know how it had happened or what he should or could do . |
| 5 | Exactly the same battlelines , with exactly the same watchwords and against much the same enemies , now urgently need to be drawn up to save the traditional British pub . |
| 6 | In the hands of Puiatti , this Pinot Bianco is a stunning wine with a tight vinous concentration and considerable elegance — and is a real rival to top-flight St Véran which costs much the same . |
| 7 | The best wines show much the same style as their more expensive Collio counterparts . |
| 8 | Parysatis , wife of Darius , killed Statira , wife of Artaxerxes , in much the same way as Mrs Iverson was murdered . ’ |
| 9 | The problem is not so much the look itself , but the attitude behind the style that appearances ( and labels ) are everything . |
| 10 | Where Jenny lives is very much the smart side of town and the flat is gorgeous . |
| 11 | Pears are treated in much the same way , but are never wrapped . |
| 12 | If the wind can be trusted to stay in much the same direction , safe parking is an easy matter . |
| 13 | He knows the routine , he appreciates the need , if without relishing it , he is too much the practised professional to show more than the briefest irritation . |
| 14 | Some years later he and Dudek parted company ; the former being too much the evangelist-propagandist for the ‘ pure ’ scholar . |
| 15 | Much the same can be said about sentence parsing . |
| 16 | Joan of Arc 's hallucinations were not so much the voice of God as the voice of some aberrant neurons in her temporal lobes . |
| 17 | As Dawkins pointed out in the passage quoted earlier , nerve impulses look pretty much the same whatever ‘ information ’ they are carrying . |
| 18 | CHAIRMAN Sir Peter Parker was doing his best , but the 1980s opened with much the same worries of insecurity over government policy , lack of investment , and working practices which harked back to the old company rules . |
| 19 | Elsewhere , it was very much the same . |
| 20 | Most other story ballets can be analysed in much the same way . |
| 21 | Its features are very much the same as those described earlier in connection with demi-caractère style ( see page 93 ) but with a very strong difference . |
| 22 | ‘ Our punters , although very much the suit and tie brigade , do like a good pint . |
| 23 | But my opinion of the book is much the same now as it was that day in Kathmandu . |
| 24 | Elsewhere in the interview Derrida invokes his key word ‘ play ’ in much the same sense in which Arnold employed it in the ‘ free play of mind ’ . |
| 25 | As I have suggested , up to a generation ago a common form of life united sixth-form and university English , regardless of whether their orientation was ‘ Oxford ’ or ‘ Cambridge ’ , since the latter made much the same assumptions about literacy and competence as the former . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is entirely possible to think that if ‘ literary ’ and ‘ aesthetic ’ are words that go naturally with ‘ American ’ but not with ‘ English ’ , so much the worse for the English . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , market operators take due account of exchange rate risk ; and what alarms them is not so much the size , but the direction of a deficit . |
| 29 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
| 30 | For more than an hour , rockets exploded across the sky — an extravaganza that for many Peking residents recalled not so much the glory of the revolution as the tracer bullets and machine-gun fire of early June . |