Example sentences of "[verb] in much the [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was naturally tempting for a rather superstitious man to trust again to an intuitive judgment of his own made in much the same circumstances as in the previous year . |
| 2 | This will be a series of reasoned , relevant points made in much the same way as a lawyer presents a case in a court of law , though your case will not be as one-sided as a lawyer 's and your judge will be the reader or teacher ! |
| 3 | In other countries where readership is similarly very limited and where the high cost of imported newsprint and machinery and the paucity of advertising revenue combine in much the same way to exclude the private investor , the government has to become involved if a local press is to exist . |
| 4 | The rest of the week passed in much the same way as that first day . |
| 5 | In his concern to endow his sons adequately , Edward behaved in much the same way as other members of landowning society , and although he exploited the marriage market for the benefit of his own family he did not monopolize it : both the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of March gained substantially from the king 's bestowal upon them of wealthy heiresses . |
| 6 | As for the police , they seem to think and behave in much the same way . |
| 7 | In other words , the stripes function in much the same way as the patterns on football shirts in human sports groups . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They stand in much the same relation to the childhood memories from which they are derived as do some of the Baroque palaces of Rome to the ancient ruins whose pavements and columns have provided the material for more recent structures . |
| 10 | The upvc comes in planks , in sizes similar to timber , and can be cut , nailed and screwed in much the same way . |
| 11 | Recently our campaign on mental health problems showed that these people can recover in much the same way as people who have physical health problems . |
| 12 | At Sunningdale the same collection of old people , arranged in much the same order , was watching television in the day room . |
| 13 | After resting and lazing for nearly an hour , after the children had slid down enough dunes , chased enough birds , fallen in the water enough times , we returned in much the same way as we started out , except this time Maha leapt into the boat and would not move . |
| 14 | The latest variants on royalty structures use branches of a Dutch company , which operate in much the same way as finance branches , and rely on exemptions to avoid tax at full rates in the Netherlands . |
| 15 | Electronically both types of printer operate in much the same way as a conventional impact matrix printer with the pattern of dots being taken from a ROM . |
| 16 | Instead the trial proceeds on the basis of oral evidence given by witnesses who are called by the parties and examined in much the same fashion as in England . |
| 17 | Whispering Robert Wyatt drifts in and out of ‘ Saratoga ’ , as the Marine boys continue in much the same vein as their splendid LP . |
| 18 | This provision can apply in much the same circumstances as section 24 , namely where someone who has sold goods to one person then later re-sells them to another . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Ezekiel speaks in much the same strain , and specifically attributes this change to the Spirit of God : |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If the wind can be trusted to stay in much the same direction , safe parking is an easy matter . |
| 23 | Even thirty years later , when she was quite old enough to know it was n't her fault , that a house did n't burn down because a girl threw a skull into a horse pond , she still cried in much the same way when she thought of it . |
| 24 | According to Le Matin , Joffre ( responding in much the same way as he had to General de Langle earlier ) , said ‘ let him do what he wants ’ and then went back to sleep . |
| 25 | These stress trajectories can be thought of , more or less , as strings under tension and they will try to straighten in much the same way . |
| 26 | Even if the court can not point to the actual error , nevertheless , if the figure is so extravagantly large or so inadequately small that the only conclusion is that he must have gone wrong somewhere , then the court will interfere in much the same way as the Court of Appeal will interfere with an award of damages if it is a wholly erroneous estimate . |
| 27 | But it remains frequently entertaining in much the same way that reminiscences , anecdotes and so on can be , and particularly because of the three-member cast . |
| 28 | Holding the idea that we are good , that we are lovable , that we are cared for , seems to act in much the same way as a tranquillizer . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ The cholera toxin operates in much the same way ’ , Wright says , ‘ however , there have been no reported fatalities ’ . |