Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 61 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 62 | What safeguards have been taken against the same thing happening in Scotland ? |
| 63 | At once she thought : I could have taken two thousand , three — it would come to the same thing . |
| 64 | Three times eight or eight times times three does n't matter which way you do it , it 'd come to the same thing . |
| 65 | We may contrast with this the phrase semantic components , where the two interpretations are virtually indistinguishable ; it will be seen that this phrase will always come to the same thing in practical terms , whether we regard the components as being semantic , with ascriptive use of the adjective , or as components connected with semantics , taking the associative interpretation . |
| 66 | Although many sentences with this surface sequence will always come to the same thing pragmatically , whichever of the two constructions is assumed ( this is one of the features which can make careful syntactic analysis such a delicate matter ) , it is nonetheless possible to find some which are open to either syntactic interpretation but with a clear difference in meaning ; this will then help to throw the syntactic difference into relief . |
| 67 | ‘ I expect it 'll come to the same thing in the end , ’ Zen told him as they shook hands . |
| 68 | ‘ It 'll come to the same thing in the end , ’ he 'd told Luciano Bartocci . |
| 69 | And literature will amount to the same thing : all writers are copycats . |
| 70 | In America 's case that should amount to the same thing . |
| 71 | Two sets of words may amount to the same thing , but one set may be caught by the Act and another set not . |
| 72 | And I am terribly bored by my colleagues in art history , who always write about the same thing . |
| 73 | Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) . |
| 74 | There is the statement-kind , thirdly , overlapping with the second , such that truth-value may be argued , to my mind unpersuasively , to depend on the inclusion of one particular referring expression , rather than another expression referring to the same thing . |
| 75 | That is I think that when I refer to and when I refer to I am referring to the same thing |
| 76 | ‘ I thought you were only interested in certain-death scenarios and fighting Daleks which come to the same thing . ’ |
| 77 | and which angle we work with it still come to the same thing . |
| 78 | They dug up an old catalogue reference to it : it seems to be that honest banking practice and churchgoing come to the same thing ungodly Marxism leads to phoney exchange rates . ’ |
| 79 | Thus the more nearly perfect a market is , the stronger is the tendency for the same price to be paid for the same thing at the same time in all parts of the market : but of course if the market is large , allowance must be made for the expense of delivering the goods to different purchasers ; each of whom must be supposed to pay in addition to the market price a special charge on account of delivery . |
| 80 | ( If say something is ‘ yours ’ you will say of the same thing that it is ‘ ours ’ when you refer to it ) . |
| 81 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 82 | He now wishes he had used the phrase ‘ cycles of disadvantage ’ instead , though it all comes to the same thing — when poverty is perpetuated through family patterns , generation after generation . |
| 83 | ‘ It comes to the same thing . ’ |
| 84 | It starts by proclaiming that God is dead or what comes to the same thing , that if he exists he is irrelevant . |
| 85 | Distances getting longer , tape measures getting shorter — either way , it comes to the same thing . ’ |
| 86 | So it does n't matter which way you do it whether you get four twelfths , two sixths , or one third , they 're all the same they all comes to the same thing . |
| 87 | The public purse would not get anything ; after all , it all comes to the same thing . |
| 88 | So it comes to the same thing . |
| 89 | 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 … . |
| 90 | that refusal of the creditor 's claim comes to the same thing as the extinction of the debt ? |