Example sentences of "of a piece with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This early framework for sensory physiology — of a piece with the Hobbesian idea of ‘ the organ proper to each sense ’ — has undergone a good deal of refinement . |
| 2 | It was of a piece with the times . |
| 3 | This is all of a piece with the way some men assume they may stare at women , stand close to them and invade their physical space by touching . |
| 4 | It serves to remind us that the collapse of the old political certitudes in Eastern Europe and the awakening of new political alternatives to market capitalism are precisely of a piece with the erasure of the old artistic ‘ avant-garde ’ and the ceaseless searching for the ‘ new ’ . |
| 5 | It was of a piece with the neglected timber , the weedy gravel and the minatory notices which guarded the bounds . |