Example sentences of "at much the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This is aimed at much the same audience as Graphics Works , but takes a difference approach by including Microsoft Publisher , along with Arts & Letters Apprentice 3.1 and Halo Desktop Imager ( for image capture conversion and improvement ) . |
2 | What is true is that large firms also destroy large numbers of jobs at much the same rate as they create them , whereas small firms have a lower rate of job destruction . |
3 | However , it is doubtful whether state pensions policies were the prime cause of this decline since it continued at much the same rate after 1948 as it had done before . |
4 | ‘ In broad terms the acrylics are mature products , ’ he says , ‘ So the general expectation must be that they are likely to grow at much the same rate as the economy of the industrial world as a whole . |
5 | At much the same time , however , workers on British Rail successfully defended their procedures in the courts and subsequently went on to conduct a very effective strike from which they emerged victorious . |
6 | Within a few years of this last attempt by an emperor to rally the Roman empire to paganism , a Greek bishop could speak of Julian 's pagan revival as a misguided attempt to introduce ‘ novelties ’ in place of the traditional religion ; but at much the same time in the West , Christians were still regarded as outside the mainstream of respectable upper-class culture , as the foolish minority who rejected the wise and hallowed traditions of their forefathers which had made Rome great . |
7 | Karajan 's return to music-making and recording in 1946–7 was brought about with the help of Legge and , at much the same time , the great Italian conductor Victor de Sabata , another man totally given over to music but whom the whirligig of public opinion had rightly exonerated despite extensive war work in both Italy and Germany in front of audiences of all manner of political persuasions . |
8 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
9 | At much the same time the Ryder Cup was also being knocked from the United States ' grasp . |
10 | It says nothing about privatization or individual ‘ packages of care ’ , unlike the Community Care legislation which was passing through parliament at much the same time . |
11 | A flood of consumer legislation passed at much the same time included the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 , the fair Trading Act 1973 , the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 . |
12 | But in manuscript B of ‘ The Hunt for the Ring ’ ( written at much the same time ) just this idea is being entertained . |
13 | At much the same time , George Cowley was being treated to a very fine Malt whisky by Peter Hogan , in Hogan 's elegantly furnished office , in the heart of Whitehall . |
14 | It is interesting to compare Ferguson 's reaction to Vidor 's film with his reaction at much the same time to the newly released It Happened One Night , which Frank Capra had directed for Columbia . |
15 | In truth what really shaped his view was the comparison between Mayo 's film and Fury , which was released by MGM at much the same time . |
16 | Thus rapidly , and with support on all sides , did Co-operation become accepted as a means of doing business , and at much the same time as did the joint stock company in essentially its modern form . |
17 | In simple co-operative work , the Art Department can plan to examine particular patterns and structures at much the same time as the Science Department looks at crystals and lattices ; the Geography Department can look at climatology and weather charting at the same time as the Mathematics Department studies or revises graphs . |
18 | Mountaineering in the Pyrenees began , early in the nineteenth century , with the very practical ascents made by the mappers and surveyors , but it continued , in climbers such as Russell , with something of the flair and eccentricity with which it was also evolving at much the same time in the Alps . |
19 | At much the same time , positivism came under a powerful and sustained political and theoretical critique associated with the ‘ Justice Model ’ . |
20 | Curiously , this branch of crime fiction appears to have sprung up independently on either side of the Atlantic at much the same time . |
21 | He did n't have long to wait because Newley was a man of habit and arrived at the office at much the same time , day after day . |
22 | The earliest excavations , however , in 1948–9 at Ivel House , supplemented by observation of local service trenches , revealed surprisingly complex occupation including buildings with opus signinum and mosaic floors , at much the same time as Stevens argued for its status as a late civitas centre . |
23 | At much the same time ( c.1053-4 ) , a monk of St Wandrille was similarly including in his Inuentio et Miracula Sancti Vulfranni an account of how Edward and Alfred took refuge in the Norman court , were welcomed by Richard II , and treated as his sons . |
24 | There were other ways of arriving at much the same conclusion but one logical consequence was that the non-biblical " gentiles " and the " savages " were lumped together as a kind of historical residue of " first men " . |
25 | If the project is to create a new manufacturing process , rather than a product , the starting point would be at much the same stage but would not go past building the plant ( stage 9 ) since there would be no question of quantity production . |
26 | If the project is to create a new manufacturing process , rather than a product , the starting point would be at much the same stage but would not go past building the plant ( stage 9 ) since there would be no question of quantity production . |