Example sentences of "it [verb] to [art] same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 2 | This happened once while I was at Binbrook , and we were all jailed for a week — well , con fined to our quarters , really , but it amounted to the same thing . |
| 3 | It amounted to the same thing for him . |
| 4 | If in doubt , one compares another specimen with the type in order to see if it belongs to the same species . |
| 5 | True , it belongs to the same group of viruses , but within that group it is only distantly related . |
| 6 | It is related to the hedgehog , or rather it belongs to the same family of insectivores . |
| 7 | This effect did not depend on oesophageal acidification as it occurred to the same extent with both pH + and pH - common cavity episodes . |
| 8 | It referred to the same matters as the Financial Secretary had stated to the Committee and concluded : |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know about that , but it came to the same thing , I suppose . |
| 10 | ‘ No , I 'm a scientist , but it amounts to the same thing . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It amounts to the same thing , surely ! ’ |
| 12 | This last point does not necessarily mean that you have to be using a page description language but , for the moment at least , it amounts to the same thing . |
| 13 | and then it gets to the same value again |
| 14 | As long as it comes to the same man hours , then that 's it . |
| 15 | ‘ It comes to the same thing . ’ |
| 16 | Distances getting longer , tape measures getting shorter — either way , it comes to the same thing . ’ |
| 17 | So it comes to the same thing . |
| 18 | The way in which this is worked out in law may be that it would be an abuse of the process of the court to allow the creditor under such circumstances to sue , or it may be , and I prefer that view , that there is an extinction of the debt ; but , whichever way it is put , it comes to the same thing , namely that , after acceptance by the creditor of a sum offered by a third party in settlement of the claim against the debtor , the creditor can not maintain an action for the balance … . |
| 19 | It , it comes to the same thing does n't it ? . |
| 20 | I think it comes to the same thing . |
| 21 | I think it comes to the same thing . |