Example sentences of "much the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | The level of detail may seem much the same as in a catalogue raisonné , but the stress falls in a different way . |
| 2 | A piece of oral history may be meant to do without a presiding historian in much the same way in which an analytic session may be meant to do without a presiding analyst ; theoretical presuppositions are subject in each case to a show of suspension , though it is clear that the theories of Freud and others will be present in the consulting-room , and that oral historians may be sympathetic to socialism and to the methods of Marxist historiography . |
| 3 | This is a major meditative speech brooding on the loneliness of the man caught between action and passivity — thinking aloud in much the same way as Hamlet does in his many renowned arias on the soul and the theme of revenge . |
| 4 | Exactly the same battlelines , with exactly the same watchwords and against much the same enemies , now urgently need to be drawn up to save the traditional British pub . |
| 5 | In the hands of Puiatti , this Pinot Bianco is a stunning wine with a tight vinous concentration and considerable elegance — and is a real rival to top-flight St Véran which costs much the same . |
| 6 | The best wines show much the same style as their more expensive Collio counterparts . |
| 7 | Parysatis , wife of Darius , killed Statira , wife of Artaxerxes , in much the same way as Mrs Iverson was murdered . ’ |
| 8 | Pears are treated in much the same way , but are never wrapped . |
| 9 | If the wind can be trusted to stay in much the same direction , safe parking is an easy matter . |
| 10 | Much the same can be said about sentence parsing . |
| 11 | As Dawkins pointed out in the passage quoted earlier , nerve impulses look pretty much the same whatever ‘ information ’ they are carrying . |
| 12 | CHAIRMAN Sir Peter Parker was doing his best , but the 1980s opened with much the same worries of insecurity over government policy , lack of investment , and working practices which harked back to the old company rules . |
| 13 | Elsewhere , it was very much the same . |
| 14 | Most other story ballets can be analysed in much the same way . |
| 15 | Its features are very much the same as those described earlier in connection with demi-caractère style ( see page 93 ) but with a very strong difference . |
| 16 | But my opinion of the book is much the same now as it was that day in Kathmandu . |
| 17 | Elsewhere in the interview Derrida invokes his key word ‘ play ’ in much the same sense in which Arnold employed it in the ‘ free play of mind ’ . |
| 18 | As I have suggested , up to a generation ago a common form of life united sixth-form and university English , regardless of whether their orientation was ‘ Oxford ’ or ‘ Cambridge ’ , since the latter made much the same assumptions about literacy and competence as the former . |
| 19 | Latterday Marxist interpreters of Shakespeare are doing much the same as the conservative proponents of the Elizabethan World Picture did thirty or forty years ago , though with a different conceptual model . |
| 20 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
| 21 | Chartered secretaries have had to develop during the 1980s in much the same way as their nearest counterparts , lawyers and accountants . |
| 22 | In much the same way his reference to the rundown , dirty and potentially dangerous state of public transport would strike a chord with commuters who use our shoddy and dilapidated railways or who drive on potholed roads . |
| 23 | ‘ The chances of being libelled in a big way are probably much the same as winning the football pools , and the results are very much the same . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The chances of being libelled in a big way are probably much the same as winning the football pools , and the results are very much the same . ’ |
| 25 | At much the same time , however , workers on British Rail successfully defended their procedures in the courts and subsequently went on to conduct a very effective strike from which they emerged victorious . |
| 26 | The activities of politicians , pop stars and policemen notwithstanding , life for most people is much the same , obviously , whatever decade it is — more or less endurable if you are young , that is , and quite the opposite if you are not . |
| 27 | Much the same procedure , shorn of its formality ( and often of its reliability , too ) is followed in the early stages of making a political programme for the box . |
| 28 | For example , conditions necessary for seeds to germinate were often studied in much the same way by successive age groups . |
| 29 | The higher price being paid for environmentally sound produce also means that , despite the smaller crop , his income will stay much the same . |
| 30 | The situation was much the same in the bronze medal fight against Jimenez Reve — Mills gamely avoiding a score but never in contention for the match . |