Example sentences of "[art] [det] thing [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lively memory is not the same thing as a colourful retelling of spiritual experiences . |
| 2 | The ruling class may be an alliance of classes and the maintenance of hegemony is not the same thing as a monolithic dominant ideology . |
| 3 | A ‘ global ’ product is not the same thing as a ‘ global ’ firm or a ‘ global ’ industry . |
| 4 | A standard variety or form is not conceptually the same thing as a prestige variety or form ( on prestige , see J. Milroy , 1989 ) : the main linguistic symptom of standardization is invariance . |
| 5 | As I say the present day er premier just now is actually trying to do the same thing as a repeat performance |
| 6 | However , a cash underpinning is not entirely the same thing as a vendor placing because it will not be known exactly how many shares will be the subject of a sale ; that will depend on the number of acceptances of the cash underwritten alternative . |
| 7 | Well it 's the same thing as a travel agent |
| 8 | ‘ Seeing through a glass darkly ’ , he once told an ecumenical committee , ‘ is not the same thing as an ecumenical fog. , After the war he began to travel to meetings as a consultant . |
| 9 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 10 | It simply was n't the same thing as an investment proposal from a friend . |
| 11 | Er y your use of the phrase self containment leads me to ask the question , which is that , well in my book it does n't necessarily mean the same thing as an integrated and balanced community , but I 'll put Mr Davis on notice to define what is meant by those adjectives . |
| 12 | It appears to me as though Captain Diobble has been laid out for the race and although there are no such things as a certainty in a National , I feel he may be the right one . |
| 13 | We may , following Hirsch , accept that there is no such thing as a poetic or aesthetic essence ; but we can say that such texts are rewarding when approached in aesthetic terms , or , in Lewis 's words , are read in literary ways . |
| 14 | For the five contracts dealt with in this article , there is no such thing as a ‘ standard ’ agreement . |
| 15 | As with recording advances , there is no such thing as a typical figure , but for a non-performing writer , enough money to live on should be sought . |
| 16 | Above all , remember that there is no such thing as a safe bet . |
| 17 | If any among the new reality seekers had a slightly tougher memory , they would recall that there is no such thing as a happy family . |
| 18 | The problem for the US troops , as in the bombing attacks aimed at Colonel Gadafy 's Libyan regime , is that there is no such thing as a surgical military strike against targets surrounded by civilians , many of them in this case US citizens . |
| 19 | There 's no such thing as a love affair unless there is an exchange . |
| 20 | He is widely credited with coining the phrase ‘ There ai n't no such thing as a free lunch ’ in his novel ‘ The Moon is a Harsh Mistress ’ , about a revolution which replaces a command economy with a market economy . |
| 21 | There is probably no such thing as a typical death-bed in any century ; but it is not difficult to take two representative scenarios , separated from one another by about one hundred years . |
| 22 | Of course there is no such thing as a forgery-proof identity card . |
| 23 | There 's no such thing as a free lunch . |
| 24 | There 's no such thing as a free lunch . ’ |
| 25 | In examining some of the questions posed , we have to accept that within the UK , and for that matter in most of the rest of the world , there is no such thing as a natural environment . |
| 26 | To me there is no such thing as a holy relic or place . |
| 27 | ‘ There is no such thing as a bloodless insurrection . ’ |
| 28 | Part of the chapter on motivation deals with obesity , and the discussion of theories of why we stuff ourselves is capped by a cartoon in which a chef tells a fat blimp ‘ As far as I know there 's no such thing as a diet cream puff . ’ |
| 29 | Lashley finally concluded that there is no such thing as a localised engram . |
| 30 | There was no such thing as a chemical industry or anti-pollution laws in Ireland in 1970 . |