Example sentences of "be the [det] thing " in BNC.
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1 | The transfer ratios differ in different applications of what might appear to be the same thing : V8 Ninety — 1.222:1 ; V8 One Ten — 1.410:1 and V8 Range Rover — 1.192:1 . |
2 | Hence it is not possible to obey a rule ‘ privately ’ : otherwise thinking one was obeying a rule would be the same thing as obeying it . |
3 | The utterly expected , the utterly unexpected , can they be the same thing , she wondered . |
4 | Learn to distinguish between the main point of the history book and the main point of your reading-they may not necessarily be the same thing . |
5 | And then there is how you behave , which may not be the same thing as the real self . |
6 | That must be the same thing . " |
7 | So we say that ‘ it is raining ’ when it is not at all clear what ‘ it ’ is , or ‘ the wind is blowing ’ when wind and blowing must necessarily be the same thing . |
8 | Where the task has been to make judgments of affective tone or extract central information from a slide , differences have emerged between central and peripheral details and this may well reflect the fact that attention to arousing information or central information ( which are assumed to be the same thing ) is explicitly required for task performance . |
9 | This is going to be the same thing , only it will be set in the future . |
10 | I do n't put a meaning on them for other people , they must form their own ideas ; I know what I meant when I made them , but it may not be the same thing for other people . |
11 | I think that must be the same thing . |
12 | But the two sinks the bidet and the toilet , were all like different shades , and you just like , yes , but is this all supposed to be the same thing . |
13 | But to me that has got to be the same thing . |