Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] much the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Sheila said this in much the tone of incredulity as she might have said , ‘ If I ever die . ’ |
| 2 | That it should need to be exorcised in that fashion , however , or at all , still leaves it looking potent , richly formative and far from innocent , and the fiction that ultimately emerges from it is ex-academic in much the same sense that it is ex-socialist . |
| 3 | Or a bird surely has a right to fly , and keeping a bird captive in a small cage that prevents this is immoral in much the same way as is not allowing a person to express himself verbally … |
| 4 | In such cases someone who says ‘ I know ’ lays himself open to reproach if what he says turns out to be false in much the same way as someone who says ‘ I promise ’ lays himself open to reproach if he does not do what he promised to do . |
| 5 | 15.39 Pupils working towards levels 8 to 10 should be involved in much the same programmes of work as those for level 7 , but will need increased opportunities , where feasible , for undertaking individual , responsible and formal roles . |
| 6 | The so-called applied sciences , such as engineering , agriculture and medicine , are concerned with much the same objects , but from a different stance : they are largely concerned with ‘ doing ’ , although again this does not necessarily preclude ‘ theorizing ’ or ‘ philosophizing ’ . |
| 7 | The eighteenth-century novel is concerned with much the same social range as the designs of architects . |
| 8 | Stevenson commented on this that we disagree in attitude , but not ( necessarily ) in belief , and in any case , for attitudinism , since the two statements express opposite attitudes , they are incompatible in much the same way as that in which statements which express opposite beliefs are . |
| 9 | Besides , primaries used for the selection and ranking of persons proposed for inclusion in party lists would be open to much the same objections as were raised earlier in these pages against choice by the electorate at large among candidates who actually figure in those lists . |
| 10 | But extending the notion of the variable to syntax suggests that we can show that syntactic variants are semantically equivalent in much the same way . |
| 11 | Chartered secretaries have had to develop during the 1980s in much the same way as their nearest counterparts , lawyers and accountants . |
| 12 | Modules were built in the early 1980s in much the same way as they had been in the late 1960s , with little technical or organizational change . |