Example sentences of "very much the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some schools in fact survive because parents are operating under the mistaken assumption that the school is run and organised in very much the same way as the one that they attended as a child , even more so when it 's the same school .
2 It must have been favoured by selection , in very much the same way as , say , the hard shell of lobsters was favoured .
3 In very much the same way as I suggested with my analogy of the German and English rowers ( Chapter 5 ) .
4 Yet the point of this short section has been to establish that where the jurists did face similar problems in coping with defective trust dispositions , they proceeded in very much the same way as they had done with legacies .
5 On each occasion , the Republican administration was forced to stimulate the economy in very much the same way as the Democrats would have done .
6 I intend to keep cows when we move in , very much the same way as Hannah .
7 In particular it is not known whether they have been formed in relation to present sea level , in very much the same way as it is not known whether the wavecut platform round Britain was formed entirely in relation to present sea level .
8 However , it must be admitted that many of the greatest choral composers also restricted their horizons in very much the same way .
9 In Russia the latter element was uppermost , and peasants were conscripted as sailors in very much the same way as for the army .
10 The select committee then went on to recommend very much the same principles as the Fulton Committee wanted to see adopted widely in the civil service .
11 In all the restaurants down on the coast they offer you very much the same salad , sometimes with a few olives , cucumber slices and cos lettuce all prettily arranged on a flat dish , a mixture not unlike the salade niçoise of Southern France .
12 A more recent sample , in very much the same tradition would be Minsky 's :
13 At very much the same hour Edmund Mortimer came out of the deep sleep that follows fever , and opened his eyes reluctantly , remembering instantly and ruefully a day and a night of indignity and discomfort before he had lost all sense of place , time and direction , and finally of his own identity .
14 It is natural to consider the dynastic marriage policies of this period in the same context as warfare , since both were engaged in by the kings and great nobles for very much the same reasons ( see pp. 456–7 ) .
15 Of course these superior critics disliked the way his films displayed ‘ the grossest sentimentality ’ , but this was the price that had to be paid for his mass popularity and after all , as William Hunter reminded his readers , Dickens had been far more sentimental for very much the same reasons .
16 Only gradually did the commercial preoccupation with the projector and the venue shift to a greater interest in the films themselves and then very much the same kind of people who had struggled to control the machines and theatres began to make and distribute the films .
17 But a bat uses its sound information for very much the same kind of purpose as we use our visual information .
18 In the sixth scene those poor French wretches on the raft were represented in very much the same posture as that in which they had been first delineated by Monsieur Jerricault .
19 Very much the same story as I conjectured for Nosema in the flour beetle and for the fluke in the snail .
20 ( It is all very much the same story as D. H. Lawrence 's persecution in Cornwall during the First World War . )
21 And you wo n't need reminding what happened here at very much the same time last night . ’
22 Since then the position has slowly improved but very much the same dilemma still remains .
23 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 .
24 → I would add to N B Cherry 's letter by saying that of course modern guitar design owes an awful lot to the pioneer designs of the ‘ 40s and '50s in very much the same sort of way that the modern motor car owes a great deal to its predecessors — that is to say , four wheels , petrol driven internal combustion engine etc. , etc. , you get my drift .
25 Language teachers can be seen as involved in very much the same sort of process — their principles correspond to hypotheses , their techniques to experiments .
26 The other Prendergast sketchbook in the collection , known as the Large Boston Public Gardens Sketchbook , is very much the same sort of thing but more fully worked , with numerous full-page watercolour sketches , possibly intended as presentation pieces to demonstrate his abilities to future patrons .
27 The author has come to an overall conclusion that , perhaps , clients and dealers are very much the same sort of people .
28 Concepts , in his view , behave in very much the same manner .
29 Members of the first family , which includes crocodiles , alligators and caymans , all have very much the same appearance , though naturally there are differences , in dentition for example .
30 Very much the same combination is seen in the modification of the postcranial skeleton .
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