Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the same " in BNC.

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1 The afternoon wore on much the same as the morning , only more slowly .
2 After all , despite what the judge had said Britain still went on much the same , Berlin was still a divided city ( and was later to become even more so ) and Russia seemed no more or less secure .
3 Clive returned to England almost immediately to go into Parliament and keep an eye on East India Company policy in London , but his followers — whose idea of moderation ran on much the same lavish lines — remained in control of Bengal .
4 Many small town craftsmen worked on much the same plan .
5 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 .
6 Ælfric wrote on much the same lines .
7 The firearm of the infantry soldier of World War I was the bolt-action rifle , and the rifles of all the armies were fundamentally much the same .
8 Well I 've been in the Daily Mail 's office , presumably much the same .
9 Moreover , white holes , by acting as conduits to bring new material and spacetime into new regions of the Universe , would act in rather the same way as ‘ Little Bangs ’ , at least on the local level ( the ‘ locality ’ , of course , being extremely large ) .
10 Ah well more or less much the same as it is today .
11 The temperature of his skin was so much the same as mine I hardly knew we touched , yet I remained very still , my hands laid on his shoulders with the exaggerated formality of one learning to dance .
12 If the wind can be trusted to stay in much the same direction , safe parking is an easy matter .
13 What is new however is the suggestion , which at the time of writing must have appeared as the height of impertinence , that the Greek and Roman states originated in much the same kind of confederation as the Iroquois .
14 Father Christmas , however , operates in much the same way , and when both celebrities were planning to meet up , in December 1987 , to deliver Christmas presents to sick children at Great Ormond Street Children 's Hospital , there was no competition .
15 In 1923 , when the Liberals found themselves in much the same situation as Mr Ashdown is hoping for today , Asquith told them that they ‘ were not sent here by your constituents to play the part of soldiers of fortune ’ , but that was exactly the part they found themselves playing then , and will find themselves playing now if we get a hung Parliament , and they will be unsuccessful mercenaries at that .
16 WHILE the rest of the country is still trying to grapple with the effects of the recession , Las Vegas , the desert oasis created by gambling , continues to boom and prosper in much the same way as it has always done .
17 ‘ The cholera toxin operates in much the same way ’ , Wright says , ‘ however , there have been no reported fatalities ’ .
18 This process seems to occur in much the same way as a plan position indicator in a radar system monitors the movement of targets recorded on the radar sets by reference to the stable map of the background locality .
19 The metaphysician uses the word ‘ substance ’ of the ‘ thing itself ’ , and thinks of its various properties as attached to it in much the same way that garments become attached to a clothes horse .
20 Buildings behave in much the same way .
21 Several Members told me that most still speak in much the same way as they did before the cameras were introduced , and that is certainly my own impression when I watch them on television .
22 Orientation operates in much the same way as the intelligence test used to … its particular value being that its apparent scientific objectivity made it an excellent means of justifying selection .
23 They are still much the same in appearance as they were then , and farmed in much the same way , although tractors have now replaced teams of oxen .
24 Feral dogs in the Italian environment behave in much the same fashion as wolves .
25 In other words , the stripes function in much the same way as the patterns on football shirts in human sports groups .
26 In effect they will be assessing you in much the same way that you make your own self-assessment and then trying to match you to jobs in the way that you should do when applying for jobs directly .
27 The patent operates in much the same way as a title deed to property , except that the ‘ property ’ can not be alienated .
28 Bell and his colleagues now believe these were caused by head-on fights with opponents , who appeared to lunge at each other in much the same way that present-day crocodiles do , but with more apparent gusto , using strong jaws to tear at each other 's snouts .
29 Sedges behave in much the same way as grasses , having their stripes neatly arranged along the leaf .
30 Fender have called this control ‘ Loudness ’ for two reasons : one , because it varies the amp 's loudness , and two , since it operates in much the same way as a stereo system 's ‘ loudness ’ control , boosting both bass and presence to create more palatable tones at low volume settings .
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