Example sentences of "[verb] to the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his reference to the poll tax , the hon. Member for Teignbridge referred to the many things that had to be built on to it and the many anomalies that had to be addressed . |
| 2 | By which time you 're not listening to the other things they 're saying . |
| 3 | and see what you 've done to the poor thing . |
| 4 | For an unusual moment Haverford was silent , looking , when it came to the real thing , a little out of his depth . |
| 5 | Kathy Rooney stood in for Mr Wogan , and I was a bit tense when it came to the real thing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know about that , but it came to the same thing , I suppose . |
| 8 | Let us now see how readers react to the real thing . |
| 9 | The terms ‘ old age ’ and ‘ retirement ’ are often used interchangeably , but they do not necessarily refer to the same things . |
| 10 | ‘ No , I 'm a scientist , but it amounts to the same thing . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It amounts to the same thing , surely ! ’ |
| 12 | Any measure based on ratios ( or , what amounts to the same thing , differences in logs ) is to be preferred . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The lack of either standard or system amounts to the same thing . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And it usually leads to the second thing which is to give some testimony . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They smiled into each other 's faces , pointing to the same things at the same time , sharing . |
| 23 | Erm , like getting to the right thing |
| 24 | May the Old Bastard discover that Bosch was not exaggerating , that his Triumph of Death was a pastel cartoon compared to the real thing . |
| 25 | Both of these methods will be discussed briefly , but it 's important to remember that any particular grouping should only be applied to individual recognizable phases of an eruption , and that it does n't necessarily apply to the whole thing . |
| 26 | In discussing the various types of eruption that are generally recognized , it was emphasized that labels such as ‘ Strombolian ’ or ‘ Plinian ’ should only be applied to recognizable phases of an eruption ; they may not necessarily apply to the whole thing . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | One manager who tried out the forms says ‘ They helped us attend to the little things that parents do without thinking , like making sure children have had their immunisations and following them up if they 're missed . |