Example sentences of "[pron] [be] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask them , and equally ( or even more ) to wave them away absentmindedly like circling insects , is to greet the novel , to respond to its personality which is the same thing as the tonal area colonized by the novelist for his present purpose . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're avoiding the truth , which is the same thing . |
| 3 | ‘ I say what 's happening with the Bloods and the Crips is the same thing that 's happening with the protestants and catholics in Northern Ireland , which is the same thing that 's happening in South Africa where different tribes fight each other . |
| 4 | ‘ Before you can convict you must he satisfied so that you feel sure — which is the same thing as being satisfied beyond reasonable doubt of the defendant 's guilt . ’ |
| 5 | This epiphany of the mother of the immediate-return hunter-gatherers — or of the new-born and unweaned child , which is the same thing — was clearly designed to compensate for her loss in reality . |
| 6 | it was gorgeous but Chris was saying that Tescos do one , but they call it passion cake which is the same thing |
| 7 | Last time there is the same thing as last night , they 've lost someone as well . |
| 8 | They are the same thing . |
| 9 | The utterly expected , the utterly unexpected , can they be the same thing , she wondered . |
| 10 | No I think he generally thought they were the same thing , I think I would of done if I was n't an educationalist , but I mean it 's his business to know really is n't it ? |
| 11 | We are we we 've got an amp meter and a volt meter and I thought they were the same thing you see . |
| 12 | What motivates him is the same thing as motivates the riders . |
| 13 | Ideas about the abnormality of disabled people that arise out of research based on adding together the particular psychological attributes of individual disabled people are then systematically misleading , since they fail to include ‘ social forces , structural features of society , institutional factors and so on ’ ( Lukes , 1973 , p. 122 ) in their explanations — in other words , because they treat disability as if it were the same thing as impairment . |
| 14 | And it 's the same thing over and over again . ’ |
| 15 | Cowley said , ‘ It 's the same thing all over : Paris , Amsterdam , Rome , Berlin … a lot of refugee students , mostly kicked out by Lin Foh 's military Government . |
| 16 | I think they just sort of it 's the same thing in a different order . |
| 17 | It 's the same thing every day ; you ca n't sort of say you 're not going to do it , because you 've got to do it — like preparing a meal : it 's got to be done because if you do n't do it , the children would n't eat … |
| 18 | You could say a fourth it does n't matter it 's the same thing . |
| 19 | But everything there It 's the same thing as when you were doing this . |
| 20 | Changing the colour of light , changing the pitch of a sound — it 's the same thing . |
| 21 | And anything that goes in between those disturbs the beam and it causes an electric current to sound the alarm and it 's the same thing that happens with the er detectors . |
| 22 | Sure , there are differences , they 've got this one-eyed machine and so on , but basically it 's the same thing , and we even tell them it 's going to end in the same way with the raft capsizing . |
| 23 | If you have nine eight it 's the same thing as saying three beats in a bar . |
| 24 | So and it 's the same thing with the preferences . |
| 25 | Aye , it 's the same thing down your back . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's the same thing again , is n't it ? |
| 27 | It 's the same thing . ’ |
| 28 | Just millions of conferences that just tire you out and exhaust you , and nothing change as you come out of the conference — it 's the same thing . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's the same thing over here , is n't it ? |
| 30 | It 's the same thing . |