Example sentences of "of [noun sg] be [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , really , how to make a cup of tea is like the same thing as making a cup of coffee first you have to take the kettle to the tap , turn the tap on and fill up the kettle , then take the kettle back to the ma , erm , where you got it from and plug it into the wa wall . |
| 2 | It might be worth recalling Walter Benjamin 's view that there is always a verso and recto to history — each document of civilisation is at the same time a document of barbarism . |
| 3 | This is not a useful approach , because it assumes that all forms of intelligence are of the same qualitative type . |
| 4 | The viewer 's eye is also kept happier if the centre of attention is in the same position within the frame before and after each cut . |
| 5 | Advocates of localization were in the same position as the explorers of the sixteenth century ; they knew there was something out there but they did n't know where it was or what it might look like . |
| 6 | Acts of nomination are at the same time acts of ‘ classification ’ . |
| 7 | If a body of liquid is at the same temperature throughout , it will remain still , unless someone comes along and stirs it up . |
| 8 | The images of vision are of the same order as creative ideas , but the mind must be aimed at the horizon , and the thoughts must be concentrated in the emotion of creativity . |
| 9 | In Maxwell , the streams of particle and wave physics had begun to converge , with results that were to be disquieting ; but optics and the structure of matter were at the same time fruitfully interacting . |
| 10 | In short , the office of collector of supply was at the same time highly desirable and extremely dangerous to political interests . |
| 11 | This is despite the fact that its acreage of farmland is about the same as that of the United States , a nation that has become the world 's greatest grain exporter . |
| 12 | A doctor of medicine is in the same social class as a company director but is more likely than the director to be accorded some degree of deference by the local community . |
| 13 | This sort of copy is at the same time description and interpretation , the salient points being brought out by the copyist , who gains greater understanding of a masterpiece by his work . |