Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] much the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The many thousands of bodies in the ruins all told much the same story , of practically instantaneous death when the searing hurricane from Mt Pelee reached them . |
| 2 | Though neither of them mentioned it , she was obviously feeling much the same as he was and he was overcome by a longing to rush to her side , hold her , comfort her , whisper that everything would be fine . |
| 3 | Orwell was not alone in observing that England was two , three or four nations ; J. B. Priestley had already made much the same observation in his English Journey . |
| 4 | Government models of the economy have their counterpart in private sector models of the economy which , although not exactly the same , nevertheless exhibit much the same features . |
| 5 | However , a number of other authors ( for example , Alberro , 1981 ; Kormendi and Meguire , 1984 ) have employed something like the Lucas approach using data from more countries , and have generally found much the same result as that reported in Lucas . |
| 6 | While field men still enjoy much the same degree of contact with their immediate superiors ( the area supervisors ) , senior staff are now distant and unseen . |
| 7 | The Moon is in synchronous rotation around the Earth , and therefore within the limitations imposed by its orbit always shows much the same face to the Earth . |
| 8 | It did n't seem that any more work had been done on it , but it still looked much the same . |
| 9 | In the heat , a woman golfer could move from her normal 80 compression ball to a 90 , and an average male form his normal 90 to 100 , and still have much the same feel as usual , but with added distance . |
| 10 | All told , government policy across the board will clearly stay much the same . |
| 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 | No wonder Italians have just voted massively to adopt the British system for three-quarters of their Senate seats ; the Chamber of Deputies will probably go much the same way . |
| 13 | John Stuart Mill later expressed much the same view . |
| 14 | They were both quiet for a long time both thinking much the same thing : was such a pretence a way of beginning or would it destroy the might have-been ? |
| 15 | Friction will also cause much the same effect . |
| 16 | Unable to accept concessions in negotiation , Law now saw much the same deal offered in public by the Liberals themselves , when Asquith announced an Amending Bill to satisfy Ulster 's fears of Home Rule with a period of exclusion . |
| 17 | In their encounters with the ghostly figures of past eras and periods , historians frequently adopt much the same holistic approach as we do . |
| 18 | His effect here inspires much the same reaction . |
| 19 | He then uses much the same repertory of colours and patterns and fin displays as he did for aggression , but in a female these trigger a series of different responses that eventually culminates in the laying of eggs . |
| 20 | ‘ No , but you undoubtedly thought much the same , ’ she replied bitterly . |
| 21 | George Shultz , the bluff and portly secretary of state , evidently thought much the same . |
| 22 | They are unhappy with the idea of a Universe that has not existed infinitely looking much the same as it does today — the same consideration which fuelled the Steady State Theory . |
| 23 | She sat with Nellie and Brigid Drennan , Tommy 's wife , at the corner table and never said much the whole night . |
| 24 | After matching the tension , the garments in the original and substitute yarns would have much the same number of stitches knitted throughout and therefore need much the same yarn length . |
| 25 | After matching the tension , the garment in the original and substitute yarns would have much the same number of stitches knitted throughout and therefore need much the same yarn length . |