Example sentences of "are the [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They are the same thing . |
| 3 | For many people , time and money are the same thing . |
| 4 | So it looks as though hpGRF and hypothalamic GRF are the same thing in these species , and it should be only a matter of time before it is from the hypothalamus as well . |
| 5 | So Love and Life are the same thing . |
| 6 | Let us suppose for the moment that we have shown that in Z irreducibles and primes are the same thing . |
| 7 | However , neither should it be assumed that grade mix and skill mix are the same thing . |
| 8 | They are utterances in which saying the words and doing the action are the same thing : the function is created by the form . |
| 9 | The little drops and the ocean are the same thing . |
| 10 | 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 . |