Example sentences of "[art] [det] thing [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A standard variety or form is not conceptually the same thing as a prestige variety or form ( on prestige , see J. Milroy , 1989 ) : the main linguistic symptom of standardization is invariance . |
| 2 | Well it 's the same thing as a travel agent |
| 3 | As I say the present day er premier just now is actually trying to do the same thing as a repeat performance |
| 4 | However , a cash underpinning is not entirely the same thing as a vendor placing because it will not be known exactly how many shares will be the subject of a sale ; that will depend on the number of acceptances of the cash underwritten alternative . |
| 5 | The SSC also apparently got differing accounts of the project 's finances ; the participants in L* did not always say the same thing as the management . |
| 6 | A ‘ practical grasp ’ of physical properties is not the same thing as the ability to articulate and reason about them by way of verbal symbols . |
| 7 | These sediments are only slightly compactible , but with others ( particularly muds ) it must be realised that the thickness of new sediment is not the same thing as the thickness of the rock that results from it . |
| 8 | It is in a way saying the same thing as the preface to The Reason of Church Government . |
| 9 | One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine which asserts , that the true electric current on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend , is not the same thing as the current of conduction , but that the time variation of the electric displacement must be taken into account in estimating the total movement of electricity . |
| 10 | They were doing the same thing as the driver ants , and for the same reasons . |
| 11 | They they tended to say the same thing as the government , erm but recently Tory motions , in this council , have started to say the opposite of the government f for reasons which remain obscure to me and this is just another example . |
| 12 | The maximisation of social wealth is not however the same thing as the maximisation of total or average welfare . |
| 13 | that refusal of the creditor 's claim comes to the same thing as the extinction of the debt ? |
| 14 | Under the scheme holders of government bonds could choose to exchange them for South Sea Company shares , and the government would pay interest on these bonds to the South Sea Company at a lower rate than it paid previously — the South Sea Company was doing much the same thing as the East India Company , providing the government with a loan at a reduced rate of interest in exchange for overseas trading privileges . |
| 15 | That was n't the same thing as the maiden ? |
| 16 | ( Note : the Next Steps Initiative , which is primarily concerned with the establishment of Executive Agencies , is not the same thing as the establishment of trading funds . |
| 17 | I 've talked about miocenia gravis ; there is it 's rarer cousin , the syndrome , which sometimes associates with carcinoma of the lung , and we have shown that this too is an auto-immune disease in which the lung cancer seems to precipitate the immune system into making an antibody against it , the tumour , and the because the tumour has on its surface the same thing as the nerve terminal , the antibody also binds to the nerve terminal and causes trouble there . |
| 18 | The Governor-General had not , by acting like the sovereign on the advice of the spokesmen of a majority in an elected assembly , become the same thing as the sovereign . |
| 19 | It simply was n't the same thing as an investment proposal from a friend . |
| 20 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 21 | It appears to me as though Captain Diobble has been laid out for the race and although there are no such things as a certainty in a National , I feel he may be the right one . |
| 22 | In isolation , there is no such thing as a price that is ‘ too high ’ . |
| 23 | It is a trite observation that there is no such thing as a standard of International Law , extraneous to the domestic law of a kingdom , to which appeal may be made . |
| 24 | There was no such thing as a casualty , everything was gathered . |
| 25 | " There 's no such thing as a work-line , " I said , irritable through misery that he wanted to go . |
| 26 | There 's no such thing as a love affair unless there is an exchange . |
| 27 | DISGRACED David Mellor learned there was no such thing as a freebie as he was finally prised from his Cabinet seat last night . |
| 28 | The shark was simply after a free meal , but as his parents would have advised him there is no such thing as a freebie . |
| 29 | Whereas Ollie happens to have spotted that nowadays there is no such thing as a short-cut in London : all the back roads are dogged up by master cartologists such as Stu , petrol-pinching aficionados of kink and gully who spin their Oldsmobile Mantras into canny U-turns like instructors on the skid-rink . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's no such thing as a slave in England . |