Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] to the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pure democracy has never worked : it works in a moderated form where there is a literacy qualification , or a property-owning qualification — which usually amounts to the same thing — and the voter is capable of making an informed judgement . |
| 2 | In such cases the addition of organic matter , slag , or lime will be essential if the farming system is to be maintained without a drastic drop in fertility and production — or the breakdown of soil structure which ultimately leads to the same thing . |
| 3 | Unless , that is , philosophy can become dissemination : ‘ a work conceived radically is a movement of the same unto the other which never returns to the same ’ . |
| 4 | The Act of Settlement of 1701 , which determined the succession to the throne , affirmed that the laws of England " are the Birthright of the People thereof and all the Kings and Queens who shall ascend the Throne of this Realm ought to administer the Government of the same according to the said Laws and all their Officers and Ministers ought to serve them respectively according to the same . " |
| 5 | You 'll be alright — you probably went to the same school . |
| 6 | Anyone who simply returns to the same repetitive activity is heading for further trouble — especially if their technique is at fault . |
| 7 | We soon came to the same decision , which was that having promised the boys we would help them , we could n't now let them down . |
| 8 | ‘ It says something for the civilising effect of our upbringing that we can both sit here calmly sharing a meal together when we freely admit to the same deep-seated and violent antipathy . ’ |
| 9 | Thus all eleven of the zonal ammonites of the Lower Lias ( basal Jurassic ) belong to different genera and only two of them even belong to the same subfamily . |
| 10 | This is not to say that they convey the same sense , nor that they necessarily refer to the same event ; but given what we know , both about the real world and the fictional world , it is reasonable to infer from each the same event . |
| 11 | They always go to the same place . |
| 12 | and which angle we work with it still come to the same thing . |