Example sentences of "[verb] to [art] same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early 1970s , in the heyday of abstract philosophy of education , it was commonplace to draw a distinction between education ‘ in the true sense ’ and pseudo-education ; or , which came to the same thing , between education and training . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know about that , but it came to the same thing , I suppose . |
| 3 | The terms ‘ old age ’ and ‘ retirement ’ are often used interchangeably , but they do not necessarily refer to the same things . |
| 4 | ‘ No , I 'm a scientist , but it amounts to the same thing . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It amounts to the same thing , surely ! ’ |
| 6 | Any measure based on ratios ( or , what amounts to the same thing , differences in logs ) is to be preferred . |
| 7 | If you can afford a magic standard then you can use this to increase the leadership or add to your combat result which amounts to the same thing for the all important break test . |
| 8 | Users often report experiencing the sort of twisted non-Euclidian dimensions associated with the Old Ones , so it 's reasonable to assume that this is how Mait made contact with them , or with whatever race memory remains of them , which amounts to the same thing . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Pure democracy has never worked : it works in a moderated form where there is a literacy qualification , or a property-owning qualification — which usually amounts to the same thing — and the voter is capable of making an informed judgement . |
| 11 | The lack of either standard or system amounts to the same thing . |
| 12 | The reason why ( 6 ) is perceived as if it was assignment is that the indefinitizing effect of the determiner means that the hearer is granted no more about the entity in post-copular position than : ( a ) The properties denoted by the noun used ; ( b ) The fact that it is an entity ; but the latter fact has already been given by the subject noun phrase ; hence the effect , with such a determiner , amounts to the same thing , in practice ( but not in terms of intensional pattern ) , as simple assignment . |
| 13 | Readers usually know something about authors whose books they have read , and even if they don " t know anything , it is natural to imagine an author figure , which amounts to the same thing . |
| 14 | In such cases the addition of organic matter , slag , or lime will be essential if the farming system is to be maintained without a drastic drop in fertility and production — or the breakdown of soil structure which ultimately leads to the same thing . |
| 15 | They smiled into each other 's faces , pointing to the same things at the same time , sharing . |
| 16 | It is the most promising ‘ global language ’ candidate , or at least the most likely to permeate other languages so thoroughly as to amount to the same thing . |
| 17 | I would very much hope that other parents would not feel that they ought to be doing to the same thing , unless their circumstances were very similar . |
| 18 | I would very much hope that other parents would not feel that they ought to be doing to the same thing , unless their circumstances were very similar . |
| 19 | This is not very far from the belief that pleasure and happiness amount to the same thing — a belief with deep flaws , as we saw in an earlier chapter . |
| 20 | If this is the case , then means and ends amount to the same thing since the same moral demands apply to both in the quest for Truth . |
| 21 | When electrical currents flow they produce magnetic fields and so it is possible that these two therapies amount to the same thing . |
| 22 | In our society , such ritual celebrations of changes of status through ageing are now restricted to religious occasions like baptism , confirmation and burial , though ‘ coming-of-age ’ parties amount to the same thing . |
| 23 | Charges often amount to the same thing . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It amounted to the same thing for him . |
| 26 | Here there was room to have a dig at ‘ trade unionists … too , screaming abuse and interfering with others on their way to work ’ , alleging that excitement on picket lines and at rock films amounted to the same thing : ‘ These are all manifestations of the primitive herd instinct . ’ |
| 27 | Every one of his books points to the same thing — unless we apply inhibition in our lives we will never be able to use intelligence in the way it was designed — to assist fulfilment . |
| 28 | This makes it possible to study subtle processes of coordination : for example , when words are repeated they are generally pronounced less clearly after the first time , but only if they are being used to refer to the same thing . |
| 29 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |
| 30 | At once she thought : I could have taken two thousand , three — it would come to the same thing . |