Example sentences of "was much the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it used to be very fashionable to say that Thucydides was much the better of these two historians , he was describing erm a war in which he himself took part , he weighed the evidence very carefully , erm he produced very incisive statements about individuals and about problems , and that Herodotus had a lot of myth in what he wrote , and he was more wide-ranging , and he did n't really have the same standards of truth that Thucydides had had . |
| 2 | Their Lordships also had to look after half-a-dozen Caribbean islands , of which the newest , Jamaica , was much the largest and looked like providing the best prospects for the future . |
| 3 | On the human level she was much the nicer of the two . |
| 4 | He said that his not coming back was much the best option for all of us . |
| 5 | Maguire was much the busier keeper , with Portadown gaining a series of unproductive short corners from forceful play . |
| 6 | Good friends we were , Buffy and I , all through school , even though he was much the cleverer . |
| 7 | ( This was much the general description of Drew . ) |
| 8 | She was seeing him sideways on , all profile and flank , and she thought that this was much the pleasantest aspect of all people . |
| 9 | It was a magnificent fight but Hodkinson was much the classier boxer . |
| 10 | The situation was much the same in the bronze medal fight against Jimenez Reve — Mills gamely avoiding a score but never in contention for the match . |
| 11 | The second period was much the same story , Ron Barteling and Robert Nerckenrath making it 5-0 in four minutes . |
| 12 | He detested the commercial world and , although he was much the same age as the Prince , had no time for the young . |
| 13 | It was much the same story at the Foreign Office . |
| 14 | In the rest of Europe the story was much the same , in some ways worse , as a glance within the hopefully green cover of the 1989 status report of the Forum Atomique Européen ( Foratom ) confirmed : |
| 15 | And his style was much the same at the end of the campaign as at the beginning : he stayed true to himself . |
| 16 | The organisation and roster of labour was much the same as usual . |
| 17 | His pride was shared by the rest of the family who were there in the front pews behind them — Hana , with little Jitka in her arms , Uncle Mick , who looked so much older all of a sudden , Carmella , who was much the same , but Joey had lost a lot of his old sunny quality and slumped sullenly in his place . |
| 18 | British consul at Silver-store , a self-important man who becomes governor of the island and a KCB : ‘ a stiff-jointed , high-nosed old gentleman , without an ounce of fat on him , of a very angry temper and a very yellow complexion ’ , whose wife ‘ making allowances for differences of sex , was much the same ’ . |
| 19 | The number of three-point alignments was much the same in each case . |
| 20 | Porto was much the same , even with compulsory handling . |
| 21 | But I asked one when we ( they ) were talking about income tax and rents and rates , and Herman implied that 95% was much the same as 100% . |
| 22 | It was much the same situation as with the ship attack . |
| 23 | Dawyck Haig 's son Alexander was much the same age as Alastair and when the two were old enough we used to have fathers ' and sons ' tennis and golf matches . |
| 24 | In a way , the pattern of her life was much the same as during the years following her mother 's death : she ate alone and as soon as she heard her father 's key in the door she went upstairs to her room . |
| 25 | Posters and photographs featured strongly in the catalogue and the general mixture was much the same as that in the other sales . |
| 26 | In 1979 about 57 per cent of elderly married couples ' incomes were supplemented by an occupational pension ( usually arising from the husband 's previous job ) and the percentage for men living alone was much the same ( Table 5.7 ) . |
| 27 | Since also the percentage of assessments below £3 was much the same in Sussex as in Norfolk and Berkshire , a good many farm workers there might have been cottagers who had their own plots of land . |
| 28 | In each case the argument was much the same : in crisis , it was the duty of politicians to come together so that the best men could be used to the greatest advantage , and so that shibboleths of party could be discarded . |
| 29 | Than Tun 's background was much the same as that of Aung San and Nu . |
| 30 | It was much the same when it came to doctors for the people . |