Example sentences of "[prep] much the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also liked the occasional drink , for much the same reasons . |
| 2 | Argentina 's government failed to arrest inflation for much the same reason . |
| 3 | Then , as now , coal provided the fuel for much the greater part of the country 's electricity . |
| 4 | Smaller rodents also chew bone for much the same reason , as well as for its calcium or phosphate content , and like porcupines they seem to prefer older bone rather than completely fresh bone . |
| 5 | It all reminded me of what I received when I dared to make some mild criticism of the habits of cyclists and for much the same reason . |
| 6 | A piece of pinewood , said Robert Craig , a Scottish electronics engineer , the log going up and down like the ‘ bees ’ in a bottle of bees wine and for much the same reason . |
| 7 | Up to now I 've avoided mentioning our day-to-day domestic life , for much the same reason that ex-prisoners are reluctant to talk about their time inside . |
| 8 | Balkan aggression was directed at the Germans and Austrians for much the same reason that Polish nationalism was directed against the partitioning powers , but unlike the Poles , the Serbians and Bosnians were supported by the Russians . |
| 9 | Some grow much better in damp places where the fish could nibble at them when they felt like it or if they needed to — in a similar way to a dog eating grass — and for much the same reason . |
| 10 | And ethnicity turns into separatist nationalism for much the same reasons as colonial liberation movements establish their states within the frontiers of the preceding colonial empires . |
| 11 | For much the same reason as suggested in the last paragraph , this seems a course of action which in practice would be ruled out for many of them by financial constraints : so again , for many , just wishful thinking . |
| 12 | We may have moved on from the steel nib and the blackboard , but are we not educating our children for much the same reasons as we were 50 years ago ? |
| 13 | He has asked for much the same amount of money , divided up in the same way : two-thirds of the money to criminal-enforcement efforts , one-third to treatment . |
| 14 | For much the same reason , it is also nurturing partnerships with several big information-technology consultancies . |
| 15 | In fact , these powers were not so extraordinary by local standards ; Russia 's reformers have asked for much the same . |
| 16 | The change involved no religious problems because the larger colony had been launched for much the same reasons : a number of Puritans , of whom the largest single group came from East Anglia , had formed the Massachusetts Bay Company and obtained a charter to settle there in a firm determination to cut themselves off from England and the elements of Roman Catholicism they detected in the Church of England . |
| 17 | For much the same market , and although I have not had time to finish it , so far it is very powerful . |
| 18 | More recently , and for much the same reasons , Stelux , from Hong Kong , bought the Bulova Watch Company in the USA . |
| 19 | For much the same reasons we are quite satisfied that there is nothing in the Act which affects in any way the processes by which decisions as to suspension and disbarment , and so on are to be taken and promulgated through the machinery created by the Inns in 1986 with the concurrence of the judges , subject always to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 20 | ‘ For much the same reason as I did . |
| 21 | For much the same reason , you should never write a sentence like : ‘ B can argue that … but the argument will fail , ’ or ‘ B has committed such-and-such a crime , but he has a good defence . ’ |
| 22 | Because he wanted a stronger and healthier nation , for much the same reason as Hitler did , on the other side of the Alps — to turn the men into warriors and the women into the mothers of warriors — he started what were known as colonie marine e montane , to which needy children were sent on holiday . |
| 23 | There is no stratosphere ‘ bulge ’ of temperature for much the same reason as there is no such bulge in the Martian atmosphere ( question 3.13 ) . |
| 24 | And for much the same reason as for Mars the thermosphere of Venus only reaches modest temperatures ( section 3.4.1 ) . |
| 25 | Britain therefore experienced a credit squeeze in the early 1990s during a period of recession in much the same way — and for much the same reasons — that she experienced a credit boom during the period of growth and ‘ overheating ’ in the mid-1980s . |
| 26 | Denmark joined the EEC for much the same reasons as the British did : she wished to ensure that she was not excluded from a large ‘ home ’ market , particularly for her agricultural products . |
| 27 | The owner was also uncompromisingly twentieth-century , a man of much the same height and age as McLeish but built like a string bean , with brown , short-cut hair and fashionable heavy horn-rimmed spectacles . |
| 28 | Ella Bembridge was a formidably hearty spinster of fifty-five who had lived , with a wilting friend of much the same age , in a small cottage on the Lulling corner of Thrush Green for the past ten years . |
| 29 | In Tuscany and Umbria to this day there are countless hill towns of much the same age as the hill forts of southern England — a few of them much older . |
| 30 | 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 . |