Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] much the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boscastle is a truly delightful place , which looks very much the same as it must have done 600 years ago with its narrow winding streets and pretty 14th-century cottages . |
| 2 | It looks very much the same as ever it did . |
| 3 | The cottage still looks very much the same from the outside . |
| 4 | It has very much the same facilities as Delta Five , but is single-user rather than allowing several people to work on the same data , and also has a lower limit on the number of records , transaction files , and so on ; nothing that would really present a problem , unless you were trying to use the system for a fairly large system , in which case you should be using Delta Five . |
| 5 | The proof of Theorem 3 takes very much the same form as that of Theorem 1 : it is a recursive procedure for transforming IF b P to b , x-normal form , where P is an x-IF/ALT program without uninitialised variables . |
| 6 | Ezekiel speaks in much the same strain , and specifically attributes this change to the Spirit of God : |
| 7 | ‘ The beginning of our show goes pretty much the same each night . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ The cholera toxin operates in much the same way ’ , Wright says , ‘ however , there have been no reported fatalities ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The patent operates in much the same way as a title deed to property , except that the ‘ property ’ can not be alienated . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Time buying on television works in much the same way , although bigger money is involved . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |