Example sentences of "[adv] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 31 | ’ Speaking for myself , I read that very broadly as giving the judge who makes a residence order the jurisdiction to attach conditions , or directions which I think are very much the same thing , as to how the children should be cared for and where they should be once the residence order has been made . |
| 32 | Or if it is , and you keep it too long , it stops being important , and that 's much the same thing . |
| 33 | Donald Trelford , editor of the Observer , was told much the same thing by Gaddafi in a further interview a month or so later . |
| 34 | And by coincidence , while this little episode is happening in downtown Deptford , in uptown we have very much the same thing . ’ |
| 35 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Creppiny , Mr Chairman , ’ she corrected him irritably ) said much the same thing , but took longer to do so . |
| 36 | When he arrived he was doing much the same thing since he was n't as naïve about the values of the secret world as she assumed : assuring himself there was nothing to suspect and being careful not to find any signs of it . |
| 37 | They were both quiet for a long time both thinking much the same thing : was such a pretence a way of beginning or would it destroy the might have-been ? |
| 38 | Much the same thing can be said of the to infinitive denoting something which is actualized as a consequence of causation ( cause , force , occasion , get , order , tell ) , assistance ( help ) , discovery ( find ) , daring , etc . |
| 39 | Horses do much the same thing except that , probably for reasons of historical accident , they run on only one toe instead of two . |
| 40 | Another attraction in being an RIE is its " status " , in the eyes both of exchange participants and government authorities ; here , RIE and exchange status are indeed much the same thing , both in theory and practice . |
| 41 | Had n't much the same thing happened to her father , hints and innuendoes that had ruined his life ? |
| 42 | Lord Justice Taylor said pretty much the same thing in his report into the disaster , although he was concerned in the main with the safety aspect . |
| 43 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | The station itself was being supervised by a presiding officer ( £96.55 ) doing more or less the same thing . |
| 46 | They all wanted to know more or less the same thing : ‘ What is this tunnel thing about ? ’ |
| 47 | Rosemary said more or less the same thing to Leith when next she saw her , and Leith realised she could not interfere , but just be there when Rosemary needed a friend . |
| 48 | So that 's twenty two years go , and ecstasy , I think 's only the same thing reoccurring . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 51 | Winning and being successful are n't necessarily the same thing . |
| 52 | Also , how potential credit users imagine that granters will behave — not necessarily the same thing as how they actually will behave — has an effect . |
| 53 | Compulsive overworking ( workaholism ) or overachieving ( which is not necessarily the same thing at all ) are conditions that lead to much debate . |
| 54 | The two are not necessarily the same thing at all . |
| 55 | And you , with no less impeccable logic , will work out just the same thing . |
| 56 | The German artillery did just the same thing , as the following account from the British side shows : |
| 57 | No bright light in the future , just the same thing day after day . |
| 58 | The jobs are nothing — just the same thing , day after day . |
| 59 | That 's just the same thing it 's not really answer you just say four shared out between twelve . |
| 60 | But when I heard about the murder I wondered just the same thing . ’ |