Example sentences of "the same thing and " in BNC.
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| 1 | An architecture centre is in danger of doing the same thing and , to that extent , is distinctly against the interests of the membership as a whole . |
| 2 | Unfortunately everyone else will be doing the same thing and if one end is blatantly favoured then it is likely to be crowded . |
| 3 | They are not separate substances but different degrees or ‘ octaves ’ of matter , as ice and its formative gaseous substance are one and the same thing and are interconvertible . |
| 4 | And design your dinner so that everyone can eat the same thing and enjoy it — with the recipes below , even the greediest red meat-and-potatoes man will feel he 's had his fill ! |
| 5 | HP would know something about the exercise since it 's trying to do the same thing and the best it 's been able to come up with is the diskless 16Mb 715/33 for $5,700 or 525Mb 715/33 for $7,400 . |
| 6 | And this is happened all over the country , each area are doing the same thing and all of this this er produce this declaration of intent and ask the , the head of the er council to put it to their members and get the support of their members . |
| 7 | The snail fauna suggests the same thing and enabled the bed to be correlated with the Allerod oscillation of Denmark and northern Europe generally . |
| 8 | Near synonyms are most common , with true synonyms ( which mean exactly the same thing and which are used in precisely the same context ) being more unusual . |
| 9 | Clarke had said the same thing and she had tried desperately to comply but it had been like trying to lay hold of darting butterflies . |
| 10 | ‘ . You 'd all at least have seen the same thing and not getting one person 's narrative of what happened across the school last week . |
| 11 | The later term that Freud adopted to this super ego has become synonymous in people 's minds with conscience the idea of the super ego as the the role of conscience and presum presumably that 's another aspect of the same thing and er Serg Moskovicy in his excellent book Age of the Crowd erm which is on the reading list which I can thoroughly recommend in discussing this point of how Freud sees the leader as the kind of super ego of the followers quotes one of the Nuremberg war criminals , I forget which it was now erm Goering or Goebbels or one of these er people who when asked of the Nuremberg war tribunals why did you do the things you did , replied Adolf Hitler was my conscience and that 's er that 's a very erm good example of this idea of er how the the role of conscience can be transferred from the individual to the , to the leader of the group and I suppose Dean you would say erm illustrates one of the greatest dangers of group , group membership because er obviously if if that happens in a group , then erm individuals are to some extent erm surrendering their moral self-responsibility and of course if Freud 's insight is correct , then there was an element of truth in in this in this excuse Adolf Hitler was my conscience . |
| 12 | Putting these sentences into a broader situation reveals that they do not presuppose the same thing and that , in spite of Jespersen 's claim that the infinitive event is represented as occurring before the existence of the gladness , exactly the opposite is the case in the way the speaker represents the situation . |
| 13 | Whereas Russia is erm , is to do with the Cold War situation but I take Michael 's point that fascism and communism are not the same thing and to say that he has fascist ideas does not necessarily mean that he therefore represents Russia in this political equation |
| 14 | It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it . |
| 15 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 16 | The second man comes , he says the same thing and his brother 's waiting at the gate and she goes only if you fuck me ! |