Example sentences of "[vb infin] to the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terms ‘ old age ’ and ‘ retirement ’ are often used interchangeably , but they do not necessarily refer to the same things . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well what do you think would happen to the poor things if left them in that water ? |
| 6 | How , that is , do they relate to the particular things which are instances of them , and to our minds when we think of those things as men , or as triangles ? |
| 7 | ‘ If you 're still in the area , you can come to the whole thing ! ’ she grinned . |
| 8 | At once she thought : I could have taken two thousand , three — it would come to the same thing . |
| 9 | Three times eight or eight times times three does n't matter which way you do it , it 'd come to the same thing . |
| 10 | We may contrast with this the phrase semantic components , where the two interpretations are virtually indistinguishable ; it will be seen that this phrase will always come to the same thing in practical terms , whether we regard the components as being semantic , with ascriptive use of the adjective , or as components connected with semantics , taking the associative interpretation . |
| 11 | Although many sentences with this surface sequence will always come to the same thing pragmatically , whichever of the two constructions is assumed ( this is one of the features which can make careful syntactic analysis such a delicate matter ) , it is nonetheless possible to find some which are open to either syntactic interpretation but with a clear difference in meaning ; this will then help to throw the syntactic difference into relief . |
| 12 | ‘ I expect it 'll come to the same thing in the end , ’ Zen told him as they shook hands . |
| 13 | ‘ It 'll come to the same thing in the end , ’ he 'd told Luciano Bartocci . |
| 14 | And literature will amount to the same thing : all writers are copycats . |
| 15 | In America 's case that should amount to the same thing . |
| 16 | Two sets of words may amount to the same thing , but one set may be caught by the Act and another set not . |
| 17 | There simply are such ‘ indicative ’ signs , and they are presented to us in sense-experience ; on their basis we can reason to the hidden things which they ‘ indicate ’ . |
| 18 | Now let's turn to the other thing you could have done ( look at the left hand column ) , play the COOPERATE card . |