Example sentences of "with much the same " in BNC.

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1 CHAIRMAN Sir Peter Parker was doing his best , but the 1980s opened with much the same worries of insecurity over government policy , lack of investment , and working practices which harked back to the old company rules .
2 And in the faculty he was surrounded by several men of substance with much the same opinions though with less hardness in their advocacy .
3 ‘ That will have to change if I do n't land a job with much the same salary , and jobs like that do n't exactly grow on trees , you know , particularly when you 're over fifty . ’
4 They watched television with pleasure , but treated its political messages with much the same scepticism as they did ordinary speeches and broadcasts : it did not seem that television had greater persuasive power to mould Zuwaya minds than other media .
5 They were neglected and turned into outcasts with much the same arrogance as that shown by the English Protestants towards the Irish Catholics during the same period .
6 Coverage of select committees ranged between 8% and 12% on the main news programmes , with much the same degree of attention to legislation .
7 And the same boy , nearly ten years later , with much the same expression on his face , awaiting his turn in the Senate House to receive his degree .
8 The Ebrahimi type of doctrine is most likely to occur when a partnership is converted into a company but the same people are involved as before and carry on the business with much the same attitude .
9 For two years the colony staggered along , with much the same problem as the early English settlements in Virginia which had failed to find any line of activity in the first three or four years that would bring in money .
10 The so-called applied sciences , such as engineering , agriculture and medicine , are concerned with much the same objects , but from a different stance : they are largely concerned with ‘ doing ’ , although again this does not necessarily preclude ‘ theorizing ’ or ‘ philosophizing ’ .
11 The eighteenth-century novel is concerned with much the same social range as the designs of architects .
12 At Leicester , twenty miles away , with much the same kind of industrial and population history , things happened quite differently .
13 If this occurs in government , the Prime Minister can evoke the sentiment of party loyalty with much the same effect as when he faces opposition on the floor of the House .
14 while Labour Party ranks are being filled by further education lecturers , men and women with professional training with much the same outlook on politics as a profession as the younger Conservatives .
15 He was a bright boy , about seven years old , with much the same colour hair and eyes as Will .
16 At one time she had found appalling the comforting observation that people are similar , with much the same fears and fantasies .
17 Despite the thick skirt and cardigan , Agnes was surprised at the delicate frailness of her , like one of those rather coy Parian ware figurines , and with much the same over-large blue eyes .
18 Other propagation mechanisms could be introduced with much the same result .
19 It was engaging with much the same processes as those later explored by Goffman , Harré and those working from a symbolic interactionist position .
20 The outbreak of war saw Bennett still in the navy blue of Imperial Airways and he heard the Prime Minister 's broadcast , declaring war on Germany , with much the same feeling as most of us who remember it .
21 It seems quite likely for I recall from courting days that my own amorous advances met with much the same response .
22 a government but all insurance companies really come up with much the same thing so I mean that 's , that 's purely for your technical information rather than anything else .
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