Example sentences of "[be] [prep] much the " in BNC.

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1 We are conscious , in general , of some of our memory , and the results of speech generation , though in the latter case we are in much the same position as any other observer ( cf.
2 Gramley ( p. 20 ) seems to be on much the same track when he notes , concerning I saw the library to have burned down : What the speaker saw was not an occurrence , but physical evidence for a condition , a state ; for example , the speaker saw the site , the ruins .
3 If the project is to create a new manufacturing process , rather than a product , the starting point would be at much the same stage but would not go past building the plant ( stage 9 ) since there would be no question of quantity production .
4 If the project is to create a new manufacturing process , rather than a product , the starting point would be at much the same stage but would not go past building the plant ( stage 9 ) since there would be no question of quantity production .
5 The site in the Coln Valley could be expected to have been on much the same pattern , though a smaller scale .
6 In making such judgments one is in much the same position as a journalist describing a battle after it had taken place from the bar of a hotel , for the pressures in the 'sixties were very great and very immediate and those of us in the Ministries of Education responded to them as best we knew how .
7 The spleen-venting and copious invective contained herein , is in much the same vein as that which brought Public Enemy notoriety as self-styled rap terrorists .
8 No need to worry — they they 'll be queuing up for me , ’ even though everyone knows that the whole area 's been appallingly hit by the recession and that the whole country , come to that , is in much the same state .
9 Thus a member of Lautro upon whom an intervention notice is served is in much the same position as a defendant to an action at law against whom an ex parte injunction is obtained .
10 Due to the Transfer Regulations , the purchaser is in much the same and in no better a position than if he had bought the shares of the vendor company .
11 The leader in the second paper , headed ‘ An Affront to Human Dignity , ’ was on much the same lines , ending with a demand for a Royal Commission to look into the ‘ hidden and possibly evil secrets of the laboratories of Britain 's universities ’ and an appeal to ‘ right-thinking people ’ to raise their voices against this outrageous treatment of a helpless baby .
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