Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] the [det] thing [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beware of small point sizes and avoid the mistake of thinking that 10 characters per inch means the same thing as 10 point , it does n't ! |
| 2 | Although he was promoted to begin his search for Troy because of an obscure literary reference to the lost city , he was at heart doing the same thing as modern detectorists ; albeit , some might say , at a more scholarly level — searching for something lost and using his wits to find it . |
| 3 | Does topic mean the same thing as theme , that is , what the message is about ? |
| 4 | I was n't too happy about getting down the rock-climb , but luckily there were two other fellows doing the same thing so we egged each other on . |
| 5 | But essentially all these tests do the same thing because they 're seeing whether the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample are robust over all sub-samples , right , we ca n't , we would n't bother testing over all sub-samples though we can do , it 's just if we have good reason to believe that behaviour in one sub-sample different for behaviour in another E G use er Chow test or equivalently a dummy variable on the intercept to see whether there was any change . |
| 6 | It is in a way saying the same thing as the preface to The Reason of Church Government . |
| 7 | But this one , standing before me in her underwear , was immediately possessable , if possession means the same thing as physical penetration , or if possession is something you measure by its financial cost , and if possession is acknowledged to be temporary , a leasehold , an object you lose or abandon . |