Example sentences of "amounts [prep] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 ‘ No , I 'm a scientist , but it amounts to the same thing . ’
2 ‘ It amounts to the same thing , surely ! ’
3 Any measure based on ratios ( or , what amounts to the same thing , differences in logs ) is to be preferred .
4 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 .
5 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 . ’
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The lack of either standard or system amounts to the same thing .
9 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 .
10 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 .
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