Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] much the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |
| 2 | Gertrude Stein expressed much the same idea when she wrote , ‘ Picasso in his early Cubist pictures used printed letters as did Juan Gris to force the painted surface to measure up to something rigid and the rigid thing was the printed letter . ’ |
| 3 | Gliding frogs use much the same devices but can also , like the snakes , make the underside of their bodies concave . |
| 4 | The double bed where she had lain with Johnny occupied much the same position as did her own . |
| 5 | as well if you want The Express and The Mail have much the same pictures Got a football magazine and a Woman you can have a football , I ca n't u look |
| 6 | Nevertheless Paine makes much the same point as Rousseau in his contention , in Rights of Man , that : |
| 7 | The ages range from 4300 Ma to 4900 Ma , and dust from maria sites displays much the same range as dust from highland sites . |
| 8 | Curiously , Houghton makes no reference to McClellan , although his work covers much the same ground . |
| 9 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
| 10 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |
| 11 | Both resolve to wait until the GP has performed the pregnancy test before telling anyone , even though the GP 's pregnancy test uses much the same sort of chemistry as the commercial one and is hardly more reliable or definitive . |
| 12 | The Pekinel sisters are unfortunate in that Justus Frantz and Christoph Eschenbach cover much the same ground on two mid-price CDs instead of three full-price ones . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The damage to the integrity of the US banking system caused by the feckless management of the savings and loans system — which before US financial deregulation did much the same job as our own building societies — has been so extensive that its impact often goes unstated . |
| 15 | John Wildman said much the same : " I conceive that 's the undeniable maxim of government : that all government is in the free consent of the people . " |
| 16 | Mrs Browning said much the same to her , observing how she did not join in when Garibaldi 's victories were being discussed nor did she rejoice . |
| 17 | The fact that ‘ emergency cases ’ apart , no medical treatment of an adult patient of full capacity can be undertaken without his consent , creates a situation in which the absence of consent has much the same effect as a refusal . |
| 18 | Mr Uppal says much the same about the council and the SMG : ‘ They are using racial harassment for their own ends . ’ |
| 19 | Another leading art director tells much the same story . |
| 20 | And , in the twentieth century , revisionism occupies much the same place in the Soviet Russian construction of Marxism as did heresy in the medieval church . |
| 21 | The second day 's play followed much the same pattern of the first , the difference being Humphreys Davies ' three set victory over Lisa Albano . |
| 22 | The best wines show much the same style as their more expensive Collio counterparts . |
| 23 | The proceedings for the four families followed much the same pattern . |
| 24 | The figures for wastage rates between levels of education reproduce much the same patterns between different regions and between the sexes . |
| 25 | Brigadier Hillary-Jones has nephews and nieces doing much the same . |
| 26 | But grypesh do much the same as we do : they hole up and wait for the weather to pass . ’ |
| 27 | Aubrey had much the same rather dry sense of humour . |
| 28 | When a liquid freezes , the molecular character of its surface is not too greatly changed and the energy of the surface remains much the same although the surface tension is no longer able to change the shape of small particles by rounding them off into drops . |
| 29 | Macmillan briefly concluded : " We had a conference with the general and his officers covering much the same ground as those with Gens McCreery and Harding yesterday . |
| 30 | Mr Irvine has much the same difficulty within AT&T as the management does . |