Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every one of his books points to the same thing — unless we apply inhibition in our lives we will never be able to use intelligence in the way it was designed — to assist fulfilment . |
| 2 | Let us now see how readers react to the real thing . |
| 3 | In our society , such ritual celebrations of changes of status through ageing are now restricted to religious occasions like baptism , confirmation and burial , though ‘ coming-of-age ’ parties amount to the same thing . |
| 4 | Although Mr Headroom was actually flesh and blood posing as the unreal thing , there are plenty of computer animation specialists who think he had the right idea . |
| 5 | I slammed the car into first gear to get off the poor thing . |
| 6 | John Hurst , the managing director of Deon who make a Ferrari Dino replica , has often had his cars mistaken for the real thing by owners of the genuine article . |
| 7 | Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) . |
| 8 | When he had finished piling the boxes up , Charles looked once more round the room and his eyes lighted on the very thing he needed at that moment — a torch . |
| 9 | Until the FRC and its cohorts have made substantial progress in imposing uniformity in accounting matters , the profession will continue to be criticised because companies account for the same things in different ways . |
| 10 | May the Old Bastard discover that Bosch was not exaggerating , that his Triumph of Death was a pastel cartoon compared to the real thing . |
| 11 | Here there was room to have a dig at ‘ trade unionists … too , screaming abuse and interfering with others on their way to work ’ , alleging that excitement on picket lines and at rock films amounted to the same thing : ‘ These are all manifestations of the primitive herd instinct . ’ |
| 12 | These are moments of some tension , but if he has a team looking for the same thing , they are at least not lonely moments . |
| 13 | Pop looms as the largest thing in our lives , but as something we 've lost control of . |
| 14 | Six-year-old Dawn Jackson knows about the important things in life and how to style one 's hair when one gets older is high on the list of priorities . |
| 15 | Six-year-old Dawn Jackson knows about the important things in life and how to style one 's hair when one gets older is high on the list of priorities . |
| 16 | In his reference to the poll tax , the hon. Member for Teignbridge referred to the many things that had to be built on to it and the many anomalies that had to be addressed . |
| 17 | You know they 're on brown rings with little little tiny screw screwed in metal rings in the brown things ? |
| 18 | The window was made of sugar glass , the substance adopted in a thousand movies to look like the real thing . |
| 19 | The value of stored documentation increases with the more things you acquire in life . |
| 20 | Schmidt looked through the few things she brought out . |
| 21 | The success of get rich-quick schemes and some of the earlier pyramid ventures depend on the same thing . |
| 22 | Paintings which describe the natural world are indeed easiest for the critic to describe , since any observer can compare an object seen with the same thing depicted . |
| 23 | A collection of general medical books in a public library may deal with the same range of topics , but the indexing can be broader than in a specialist context , and the terms used for the same thing may be different . |
| 24 | Not only are different names used for the same thing , different things are known by the same name . |
| 25 | When electrical currents flow they produce magnetic fields and so it is possible that these two therapies amount to the same thing . |
| 26 | Mademoiselle stared at the enormous thing as if she really could not believe her eyes , she gave a shriek even louder than Mary-Lou had given . |
| 27 | that refusal of the creditor 's claim comes to the same thing as the extinction of the debt ? |
| 28 | As we have seen , the entity-relationship approach looks at the major things of interest first . |
| 29 | He did n't call her back , and when she turned he was sitting where she had left him , sprawled across the sofa surrounded by the solid things of his existence . |
| 30 | This is not very far from the belief that pleasure and happiness amount to the same thing — a belief with deep flaws , as we saw in an earlier chapter . |