Example sentences of "[adj] the same thing " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Is n't that the same thing ? ’
2 ‘ Is n't that the same thing ? ’
3 ‘ Is n't that the same thing ? ’
4 In Bolingbroke 's terms such an act would warrant the conclusion that the government is not a good one ; is this the same thing ?
5 the other review is really good , just as good as yours and he and you are saying very much the same things .
6 Well I was just going to say very much the same thing .
7 You 've got all the same things in common , you 've all got a baby and you were all under-age when you had the baby and most of us done exams .
8 Heterosexual , homosexual , narcissistic , normal , or incest , it is all the same thing … .
9 It was not at all the same thing .
10 It 's totally … it 's totally , I mean logically and legally , it 's a ridiculous distinction ; I do n't think the distinction is important — that what comes out in the end is the same thing ; I committed or omitted , however you want to put it — it 's all the same thing .
11 He stood more in the classical Christian tradition , which insisted that self-knowledge and knowledge of God are intimately connected , but that they are not at all the same thing .
12 Yes , there is a future for the concept of the mainframe — the centralised repository upon which the whole enterprise needs — but to say that is not at all the same thing as saying that the centralised repository has to be — or even should be — a $50,000 to $100,000 per MIPS machine that runs MVS — or 1100 OS or MCP or BS2000 or GCOS come to that .
13 After being admitted to hospital where she received treatment for breathing problems , she was said not to need any further treatment ( or was ‘ blocking a bed ’ which is not at all the same thing ) and discharged into a nursing home .
14 One third , two sixths , four twelfths all the same thing .
15 Books that set out to give advice to management never fail to point out that a " no " decision is not at all the same thing as failure to make a decision .
16 Custom that has been experienced as part of daily life is not at all the same thing as custom that is described in a formal interview .
17 That is n't at all the same thing as living . ’
18 Good and love and God are all the same thing , really .
19 ‘ But it 's all the same thing , is n't it , Ellie ?
20 If you ca n't find it in one you find it in another but it is all the same thing .
21 That 's right , yeah she 'll be going through all the same thing trying to get money
22 thetas omega T does n't matter it 's all the same thing
23 Says a spokesman : ‘ Morrissey was worried the same thing would happen again on Sunday . ’
24 The brook , at the back of a trading estate is a popular playspot for local children and the boys ' mother is frightened the same thing could happen to someone else .
25 and they 're both the same thing .
26 Tell her you 're scared the same thing 'll happen to her . ’
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