Example sentences of "much [prep] [art] same " in BNC.
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1 | The vicar had two sons much about the same age as my brother and myself , so we were often invited into the vicarage to play . |
2 | Much about the same I suppose is it , or slightly dearer ? |
3 | Much in the same vein is Henry V who has several well known ‘ set ’ speeches , full of fireworks , as well as the difficult and testing soliloquy on the responsibility of leadership that begins ‘ Upon the King … |
4 | Since the Board are entering into a Scheme for adult education in co-operation with the LEA in Cambridgeshire much in the same way ( as ) had been done in Bedfordshire it seems as if it might be best for the Board to be recognised as the Responsible Body for this type of course . |
5 | J. B. Watson in 1914 and other behaviourist thinkers ( Hull , Skinner ) believed that an acquired behaviour element , the conditioned reflex for example , could be made to account for all behaviour , because such an element could be treated as a ‘ building block in theory much in the same way that nineteenth-century physicists used ‘ atoms ’ to build up a theory of matter . |
6 | Much in the same way , although on a higher level , the obedience competitors , in which I include trials and Schutzhund workers , train their dogs throughout the week and aim either to win a qualification or pass a test . |
7 | The tradition has however tended to assume that by adopting a particular perspective ( Marxism ) it can escape the ideological effect much in the same way as science appears at times to escape from ideology . |
8 | This led Morgan ( 1943 ) to argue that drive must be due to activating a central nervous system mechanism that represents the drive state , much in the same way as Papez was claiming that activation of the cingulate cortex represented emotion . |
9 | It still maintains with blithe equanimity its opinion that active smoking , let alone passive smoking , does not cause disease — it has only been shown to have a ‘ statistical association , ’ much in the same way that sexual intercourse might be denied to ‘ cause ’ pregnancy . |
10 | We still celebrate it much in the same pagan tradition with a heavy indulgence , in gift giving and illuminating Christmas trees in an imitative magic to help the Sun regain its strength . |
11 | His rendition of the approach journey from Kingsburgh fills in more detail than Johnson 's , with the revealing observation — still visibly understandable — that their guide navigated across the moors much in the same manner as , I suppose , is pursued in the wilds of America , by observing certain marks known only to the inhabitants ' . |
12 | Here also there was a much older history of troughs and orogenies , most obviously the late Precambrian and Palaeozoic trough of Timan , which makes a narrow angle with the northern Urals , much in the same way that the " Palaeo-Rockies " make one with the later Rockies . |
13 | The four-month voyage back to England via the South pacific and Cape Horn was spent much in the same way as the outward voyage . |
14 | The stair-well in this wing indicates an upper storey which presumably would have been much on the same plan . |
15 | Powerboating is run much on the same line as cars … the pilots have to qualify in practising … |