Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] much the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | All popular kinds of decorative pond fish can survive for several months during the winter without feeding , as their body processes slow down in much the same manner as a tree or shrub in the garden becomes dormant . |
| 3 | However , because thermosetting plastics consist essentially of an irregular three-dimensional network of molecules , something like glass , they have quite a low work of fracture — seldom more than 100 J/m 2 and usually much less — and so they behave mechanically in much the same way as glass does . |
| 4 | Basically any report on Eastern Europe 's problems comes down to much the same things : a heavy reliance on smokestack industries burning brown coal ( also known as lignite ) and pouring out uncontrolled noxious fumes , factories tipping their chemical wastes straight into rivers , and untreated sewage . |
| 5 | The two essential points are that fewer than one in three had considered paying cash as a real alternative ; and that half said they bought on credit because they did n't have the cash , while about another quarter gave answers ( like ‘ needed it right away ’ ) which boil down to much the same . |
| 6 | Personal narratives or short autobiographical pieces function organisationally in much the same way as fictional narratives , except that the writer is constrained by existential rather than imagined events . |
| 7 | Unix computers can have dumb terminals attached to them directly in much the same way as the traditional office minicomputer . |
| 8 | a government but all insurance companies really come up with much the same thing so I mean that 's , that 's purely for your technical information rather than anything else . |
| 9 | Then in 1881 an expedition led by Giulietti , accompanied by thirteen other Italians , had been massacred somewhere to the north of Aussa , as was another expedition under Bianchi three years later in much the same area . |
| 10 | It does so effectively in much the same way as the presence of police on the beat reinforces a sense of law and order . |
| 11 | It can not have changed much in two hundred years and still , today , the tireless plume of woodsmoke wafts up from the chimney , proving that life goes on in much the same way as it always have done in this particular vicinity . |
| 12 | The Asiatic system consists of separate units ; local communities which hold land communally in much the same way as tribal communities or the constituent units of the classical and feudal systems were believed by Marx to do . |
| 13 | The administrative arrangements and rules adopted for the experiment have been endorsed by the House for the permanent coverage , and so , for the time being , the House is televised and reported on television today in much the same way as during the experiment . |
| 14 | His speech made clear that he had been brought reluctantly to much the same view as his Director of Propaganda . |