Example sentences of "do much the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crows may do much the same sort of thing as buzzards and eagles but , since there are so many of them , the luckless crows are ignored . |
| 2 | Provided you know how to use it , a cheap hand-held version will do much the same thing . ’ |
| 3 | Latterday Marxist interpreters of Shakespeare are doing much the same as the conservative proponents of the Elizabethan World Picture did thirty or forty years ago , though with a different conceptual model . |
| 4 | In their different ways , Hanson and ICI are doing much the same thing : running a portfolio of businesses . |
| 5 | Hogarth was doing much the same thing , though for the less fashion-conscious end of the market . |
| 6 | Under the scheme holders of government bonds could choose to exchange them for South Sea Company shares , and the government would pay interest on these bonds to the South Sea Company at a lower rate than it paid previously — the South Sea Company was doing much the same thing as the East India Company , providing the government with a loan at a reduced rate of interest in exchange for overseas trading privileges . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , in a studio in north London , Geoffrey Winston of Thumb Design Partnership , seems to be doing much the same . |
| 8 | Brigadier Hillary-Jones has nephews and nieces doing much the same . |
| 9 | When he arrived he was doing much the same thing since he was n't as naïve about the values of the secret world as she assumed : assuring himself there was nothing to suspect and being careful not to find any signs of it . |
| 10 | But when he looked over his shoulder , expecting Eve to be doing much the same , she was heading in quite a different direction . |
| 11 | Pedal steel players do much the same kind of thing , but they 're lucky because they 've got loads of strings to play around with ; when you 're a guitar player and you 're down to six , you have to break it down and come up with some simpler versions . ’ |
| 12 | Bees do much the same . |
| 13 | But grypesh do much the same as we do : they hole up and wait for the weather to pass . ’ |
| 14 | Horses do much the same thing except that , probably for reasons of historical accident , they run on only one toe instead of two . |
| 15 | erm As far as we 're concerned , we do much the same I suppose as , as the housewife does in her kitchen . |
| 16 | At the other end of the line Frau Nordern did much the same , then stood up and stuffed her brief-case with various documents . |
| 17 | Having disposed of Chertsey and Witney , they did much the same in the fourth qualifying round against Marlow , equalising at home in the 82nd minute and winning the replay 2-1 with a goal in the 90th . |
| 18 | Having disposed of Chertsey and Witney , they did much the same in the fourth qualifying round against Marlow , equalising at home in the 82nd minute and winning the replay 2-1 with a goal in the 90th . |
| 19 | The damage to the integrity of the US banking system caused by the feckless management of the savings and loans system — which before US financial deregulation did much the same job as our own building societies — has been so extensive that its impact often goes unstated . |
| 20 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 21 | America 's carmakers did much the same in the 1980s by failing to respond to the growing Japanese competition in America 's small-car market . |
| 22 | Pierpont Morgan did much the same . |
| 23 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 24 | Possibly the latter was due to our handling of it — we were accustomed to pressing woollen garments to within an inch of their lives and we did much the same to our synthetic garments . |
| 25 | Other clubs did much the same things for provincial leaders ; it was to the Constitutional Club that Salvidge went when in London and it was there that he stayed . |