Example sentences of "much the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some writers have argued that since the parties became so strong , it was inevitable that the influence formerly exercised on the floor of the House should decline but that much the same influence is still exercised by the meetings of the parliamentary parties . |
| 2 | Documents containing both text and simple graphics can be created using much the same equipment except that a graphics screen will now be essential in order to see the charts and graphs . |
| 3 | We both seem to be held in much the same esteem . |
| 4 | much the same reduction in the capacity to scrutinize has taken place . |
| 5 | No need to worry — they they 'll be queuing up for me , ’ even though everyone knows that the whole area 's been appallingly hit by the recession and that the whole country , come to that , is in much the same state . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | The Council of Europe , an international organisation of European states , of much the same character as the United Nations Organisation , is in no way a part of the constitution of the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | If the wind can be trusted to stay in much the same direction , safe parking is an easy matter . |
| 9 | 1982 's release ‘ The Slide Area ’ found Cooder writing more of his own material , and covering much the same territory . |
| 10 | In 1985 , Anthony Burgess , perhaps even more controversially , explored much the same territory in The Kingdom of the Wicked . |
| 11 | Figure 5.13 shows the same data for the Focused model which , although it has much the same proportion of grid squares with differences in excess of 1000 people , now gives a total range from -4799 to +8339 . |
| 12 | David Feherty , who , like Richardson , has received his first Masters invitation , had much the same experience . |
| 13 | ‘ The man on top of the wedding cake ’ , as Dorothy Parker called Governor Dewey , with the snobbery of the rich left , had much the same experience of fallacious exaltation at the hands of the polls as poor Mr Kinnock . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Cut-ins , in which a close-up detail of something within the main shot is used , are similar to cutaways and serve much the same purpose . |
| 16 | For the period before 1984 our analyses rely on much the same evidence as the Black report , though more complete registration data are now available . |
| 17 | The ages range from 4300 Ma to 4900 Ma , and dust from maria sites displays much the same range as dust from highland sites . |
| 18 | Much the same range of locations seems to prevail for the more romanized forms of housing . |
| 19 | Hall , whose second round score was 79 , missed from seven feet at the first and from much the same distance at the last . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The opening paragraph of The Autocar 's November 1965 test of a privately owned car ( to much the same spec as our example ) read : ‘ Few readers indeed will get this far before turning to the data page which follows , for the name of AC Cobra is synonymous with performance . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In county politics much the same attitude prevailed , for in 1799 Admiral Lord Keith 's chief complaint about a presentation made by Lord Elphinstone was that the latter had not seen fit to agree to the wishes of an important laird , remarking that ‘ I should suppose Lord E. does not recollect that the Gleneagles people have 3 votes in Dumbarton . |
| 24 | It 's much the same attitude that meant Darlington fans at Torquay last Saturday had to pay £6 to stand behind the goal , a quid more than the home crowd . |
| 25 | In much the same vein , one LEA considered recently a draft of a newsletter to parents outlining the implication of those rights so far as a child 's education in their early years was concerned . |
| 26 | Whispering Robert Wyatt drifts in and out of ‘ Saratoga ’ , as the Marine boys continue in much the same vein as their splendid LP . |
| 27 | The spleen-venting and copious invective contained herein , is in much the same vein as that which brought Public Enemy notoriety as self-styled rap terrorists . |
| 28 | In much the same vein his contemporary Macaulay wrote that " institutions purely democratic must , sooner or later , destroy liberty , or civilization , or both . " |
| 29 | Especially since the ‘ efficiency savings ’ from 10 years of government cuts are much the same size . |
| 30 | In the nests of the few species that feed exclusively on carrion , the queen cells and food storage cells are much the same size . |