Example sentences of "[adv] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | If initial position is reserved for theme and if topic always occurs in initial position , then theme and topic are presumably the same thing . |
| 2 | In the first year , right , there was not enough rain , right , in order to swell the tubers , right , presumably the same thing happened in the second year , but no , the reason why er , yields were very low in nineteen seventy four , was because there was too much rain . |
| 3 | One of the suffragan bishops , the Right Reverend Peter Vaughan , Bishop of Ramsbury since April 1989 , says rather the same thing more obliquely . |
| 4 | Do signers have a clear idea of the separateness of different sign languages , or do they feel and act as if they are all basically the same thing ? |
| 5 | Increasingly through last year it became apparent that what CSRG wanted was ‘ basically the same thing as BSDI : ’ an unencumbered commercial system . |
| 6 | say basically the same thing ; that , as emperor , he has the power to do a lot of damage and that power can quickly corrupt men , however noble or good they seem to start off . |
| 7 | Perhaps the same thing would happen with the others . |
| 8 | Perhaps the same thing happened to him on Weathertop , where he put the Ring on as the Ringwraiths closed in , but the words used there are ‘ temptation ’ and ‘ desire ’ — ‘ his terror was swallowed up in a sudden temptation to put on the Ring . |
| 9 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
| 10 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 11 | In their different ways , Hanson and ICI are doing much the same thing : running a portfolio of businesses . |
| 12 | ‘ Much the same thing as we used to do . |
| 13 | ‘ Unless you keep on trying to develop your own personal work , your own personal style , trying to find out where your main sympathies lie and what subjects you really like to work with , you end up purely being a commercial photographer shooting pretty much the same thing year in year out . |
| 14 | Much the same thing occurs in New Statesman & Society , but there is a significant shift here in that we begin to see cultural products ( or rather questions raised by them ) being discussed outside of the journal 's cultural space — in the editorials and in guest journalists ' comments . |
| 15 | Less than 12 months after Steve Pate was pulled out of the Ryder Cup singles on medical grounds much the same thing happened at the recent PGA Cup match at Kildare . |
| 16 | Hogarth was doing much the same thing , though for the less fashion-conscious end of the market . |
| 17 | One can imagine the expulsion to Earth ( of Melkor ) and the expulsion to Middle-earth ( of Galadriel ) coming , in a mind like Éomer 's , to seem much the same thing . |
| 18 | He wrote about his own temptations , and came close to presenting the revolt of the Noldor as a felix culpa , a ‘ fortunate sin ’ , when Manwë accepts that their deeds will live in song , so that ‘ beauty not before conceived [ shall ] be brought into Eä ’ ; fiction , poetry , craftsmanship are seen as carrying their own justification and as all being much the same thing . |
| 19 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's pretty much the same thing that is happening in my body . ’ |
| 21 | Provided you know how to use it , a cheap hand-held version will do much the same thing . ’ |
| 22 | It seems more likely that the knot symbolized the bond between the communicant and the deity , or that it was an attempt to bind the deity by magic , which is much the same thing . |
| 23 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc was told pretty much the same thing ( UX No 434 ) . |
| 24 | When he said much the same thing at the end of the Council , Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the right-wing were up in arms at this ‘ humanism ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | With rents normally frozen at an obsolete level , entry fines were either certain , or , if technically arbitrary at the will of the lord , required by custom to be reasonable , which amounted to much the same thing . |
| 27 | We are saying much the same thing when we derive the antithesis between sexuality and civilization from the circumstance that sexual love is a relationship between two individuals in which a third can only be superfluous or disturbing , whereas civilization depends on relationships between a considerable number of individuals . |
| 28 | ( Of course , much the same thing could be said of every American orchestra . |
| 29 | ‘ Of course he wrote music , ’ Haverford explained patiently , ‘ but it 's much the same thing . |
| 30 | A much later , much more sophisticated critic , Ortega y Gasset , said much the same thing : |