Example sentences of "in very [adv] the [adj] " 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	→ 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 .
5	Language teachers can be seen as involved in very much the same sort of process — their principles correspond to hypotheses , their techniques to experiments .
6	A more recent sample , in very much the same tradition would be Minsky 's :
7	On each occasion , the Republican administration was forced to stimulate the economy in very much the same way as the Democrats would have done .
8	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 .
9	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 .
10	However , it must be admitted that many of the greatest choral composers also restricted their horizons in very much the same way .
11	In Russia the latter element was uppermost , and peasants were conscripted as sailors in very much the same way as for the army .

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