Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] much the same " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even thirty years later , when she was quite old enough to know it was n't her fault , that a house did n't burn down because a girl threw a skull into a horse pond , she still cried in much the same way when she thought of it . |
| 32 | According to Le Matin , Joffre ( responding in much the same way as he had to General de Langle earlier ) , said ‘ let him do what he wants ’ and then went back to sleep . |
| 33 | These stress trajectories can be thought of , more or less , as strings under tension and they will try to straighten in much the same way . |
| 34 | Even if the court can not point to the actual error , nevertheless , if the figure is so extravagantly large or so inadequately small that the only conclusion is that he must have gone wrong somewhere , then the court will interfere in much the same way as the Court of Appeal will interfere with an award of damages if it is a wholly erroneous estimate . |
| 35 | ‘ The rest of us had put up much the same , given that we had done it earlier , ’ he assured McLeish . |
| 36 | Ælfric wrote on much the same lines . |
| 37 | Clive returned to England almost immediately to go into Parliament and keep an eye on East India Company policy in London , but his followers — whose idea of moderation ran on much the same lavish lines — remained in control of Bengal . |
| 38 | But it remains frequently entertaining in much the same way that reminiscences , anecdotes and so on can be , and particularly because of the three-member cast . |
| 39 | Holding the idea that we are good , that we are lovable , that we are cared for , seems to act in much the same way as a tranquillizer . |
| 40 | Father Christmas , however , operates in much the same way , and when both celebrities were planning to meet up , in December 1987 , to deliver Christmas presents to sick children at Great Ormond Street Children 's Hospital , there was no competition . |
| 41 | ‘ The cholera toxin operates in much the same way ’ , Wright says , ‘ however , there have been no reported fatalities ’ . |
| 42 | Orientation operates in much the same way as the intelligence test used to … its particular value being that its apparent scientific objectivity made it an excellent means of justifying selection . |
| 43 | The patent operates in much the same way as a title deed to property , except that the ‘ property ’ can not be alienated . |
| 44 | Fender have called this control ‘ Loudness ’ for two reasons : one , because it varies the amp 's loudness , and two , since it operates in much the same way as a stereo system 's ‘ loudness ’ control , boosting both bass and presence to create more palatable tones at low volume settings . |
| 45 | The 3-Colour pattern option operates in much the same way except that it knits colour one , colour two , colour three and colour four before moving on to the next pattern line . |
| 46 | They are still much the same in appearance as they were then , and farmed in much the same way , although tractors have now replaced teams of oxen . |
| 47 | On hillsides , stone stripes form in much the same way across the slope ( Chambers , 1966a , b , 1967 ; Holdgate et al . |
| 48 | Advertising may well continue in much the same form as in the past and , therefore , careers in this field will remain more or less the same . |
| 49 | The second set unfolded in much the same way , with the Herts player — who recently scored another major success when he beat the nationally-ranked Neil Dyson in a county friendly — rally from 4–5 down to hold his serve and make it all-square , before breaking Ainley 's service in the following set to go 6–5 ahead . |
| 50 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 51 | Time buying on television works in much the same way , although bigger money is involved . |
| 52 | An auger works in much the same way , but instead of being pushed into the soil , it has a corkscrew end which can be twisted down into the earth . |
| 53 | The thermal printer works in much the same way as an impact matrix printer in that instead of a column of needles in the printing head it has a column of heating elements . |
| 54 | If he is n't given anything , the subsequent events occur in much the same manner anyway . |
| 55 | The European national club monopolists — like Siemens , Ericsson and ITT-Alcatel — stayed in much the same positions . |
| 56 | This process seems to occur in much the same way as a plan position indicator in a radar system monitors the movement of targets recorded on the radar sets by reference to the stable map of the background locality . |
| 57 | Buildings behave in much the same way . |
| 58 | Feral dogs in the Italian environment behave in much the same fashion as wolves . |
| 59 | Sedges behave in much the same way as grasses , having their stripes neatly arranged along the leaf . |
| 60 | He was faced there with one of the world 's many tonal languages — conveniently forgotten in Western schools which teach only European languages and imply that all languages work in much the same way . |