Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 2 | ‘ No , ’ she interrupted , ‘ but you seem to be accusing me of exactly the same things I accused you of — or at least had to ask about . |
| 3 | a government but all insurance companies really come up with much the same thing so I mean that 's , that 's purely for your technical information rather than anything else . |
| 4 | He reminded the House that the police had been given forty-eight hours notification of the proposed route : ‘ Honourable members on this side of the House who in this respect are charging him [ Paisley ] with gross civic and social irresponsibility must also charge the police with exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 5 | Basically any report on Eastern Europe 's problems comes down to much the same things : a heavy reliance on smokestack industries burning brown coal ( also known as lignite ) and pouring out uncontrolled noxious fumes , factories tipping their chemical wastes straight into rivers , and untreated sewage . |
| 6 | With rents normally frozen at an obsolete level , entry fines were either certain , or , if technically arbitrary at the will of the lord , required by custom to be reasonable , which amounted to much the same thing . |
| 7 | And she said that erm Gordon , her husband erm he has no sight in one eye due to due to exactly the same thing not patching erm , an eye at the , the right age . |
| 8 | In this case , latent inhibition and habituation would indeed reduce to essentially the same thing . |
| 9 | Two people looking at exactly the same thing may have quite different perceptions depending on experience , background and interest . |
| 10 | The sandwich principle , co-operative education and industrial or clinical placement are different terms for essentially the same thing : an extended period of work experience which is built into courses of study and by which students gain knowledge of current working practices and new developments in industry and the professions . |