Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] be the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many people , time and money are the same thing . |
| 2 | John Hunter , one of the most eminent surgeons of the eighteenth century , was responsible for lending weight to the belief that syphilis and gonorrhoea were the same disease , as a result of a fateful experiment . |
| 3 | First , look at the mark between the central pair , and note that top and bottom are the same size and are both vertical . |
| 4 | But of greater importance for the social anthropologists themselves is that in many societies the distinction between biological kinship and sociological kinship is quite clearly recognized and the degree of their identification or dissociation is a matter of formal rules : " Copulation and marriage are not the same thing " or : " Copulation and marriage are the same thing " as the case may be . |
| 5 | Loyalty and morality were the same thing to her . |
| 6 | In one way this statement is more conservative than the previous one in that it has elevated the popular usage ‘ Republican Sunday ’ to a part of party language and thus confirmed the belief that Catholicism and republicanism are the same thing , but it represents an important departure from previous positions in clearly tying the DUP 's position to that of the electorate . |
| 7 | He reminded Lanfranc of their early agreement that justice and truth were the same thing in different modes . |
| 8 | The other anomaly was the size of the Cayman coins : both the Cayman penny and nickel are the same size as an American dime , the Cayman dime is the size of an American nickel , and the Cayman quarter is the size of an American quarter . |
| 9 | Day and night were the same thing in this place . |
| 10 | And water 's the same way |
| 11 | The lack of a correlation between risk and P(A) is the same result that was observed using hit rate as the measure of recognition performance . |
| 12 | So Love and Life are the same thing . |
| 13 | The more successful the town and country is the more chance we as individuals have of being successful . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps he was moved by the recollection that the argument propounded by Anselm had its origin in his own comment on an intricate saying of St Paul about truth and justice being the same thing in different modes ; perhaps too he felt some remorse at his impatient dismissal of so many of the saints venerated at Canterbury , when so clever a man as Anselm could take Elphege seriously . |