Example sentences of "[verb] much the [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In 1961 it was already overwhelmingly the nation 's ‘ main activity ’ in the evening , and the BBC study establishing that fact produced much the same figures when repeated in 1975 ( BBC , 1976 ) .
2 Nevertheless the Hena villagers , in their ordinary lives , led much the same sort of existence as the Goigama villagers .
3 Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 The opposition leader , Mr Vaclav Havel , made much the same point about the new Prime Minister by stating that he had failed to attract much attention over two years in government office .
7 For example , an HP buyer could make much the same sort of claim against his finance company over faulty goods as the Sale of Goods Act would have allowed against a shop .
8 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 .
9 The ages range from 4300 Ma to 4900 Ma , and dust from maria sites displays much the same range as dust from highland sites .
10 The Higgs boson , Minister , plays much the same role as the photon , but in a different context .
11 The next two areas in the list of uses-management and administration , and using office programs — come together in that both involve much the same hardware and software .
12 I would have trusted him to be here at this discussion and say much the same things other people here would be saying .
13 Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK .
14 For those who want to make a choice or are for some reason coming new to Ferrier , I would recommend the fifth disc with the unforgettable Chausson and Brahms , the sixth , which has some of her best and most lovable performances of British song , including Purcell 's Mad Bess of Bedlam preciously available only in an EP , allied to some precious Wolf , sung with new-found subtlety of nuance , from a Norwegian Radio recital , and the ninth disc , the Edinburgh recital with Walter , which has much the more telling of her two accounts of Frauenliebe und -leben .
15 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 .
16 RCT , based in Arizona , is a non-profit making trust fund , and has much the same relationship with US academic institutions as BTG has with UK ones .
17 Mr Irvine has much the same difficulty within AT&T as the management does .
18 Figure 5.13 shows the same data for the Focused model which , although it has much the same proportion of grid squares with differences in excess of 1000 people , now gives a total range from -4799 to +8339 .
19 ‘ First general circulation ’ has much the same meaning .
20 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 ) .
21 It has much the same sort of fascination as a dictionary , or a encyclopedia .
22 Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly .
23 Technically the Flydaway has much the same characteristics as a tram .
24 Indeed , much of the evidence suggests that , even if Mansell had not actually braked early , he had perhaps lifted his foot from the throttle , which has much the same effect in an F1 car .
25 They do not suddenly appear out of nowhere or on the pages of a language textbook — which has much the same effect — but in varying sizes and on varying materials : out of ticket machines , on computer screens , under windscreen wipers , on hoardings .
26 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 .
27 Such a clause has much the same effect as one which excludes liability for breach and in Anglo-Continental Holidays Ltd v Typaldos Lines ( London ) Ltd [ 1967 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 61 Lord Denning MR indicated that he would not be prepared to allow a party to rely on such a clause to change the whole nature of the contract .
28 This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " .
29 Curiously , Houghton makes no reference to McClellan , although his work covers much the same ground .
30 English seems to obtain much the same effect with the to infinitive as subject .
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