Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [art] [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | As both the active and the passive sentence mean the same thing , it is reasonable to ask why we need both . |
| 2 | The last time they were in office Labour said the same thing , those earning less than a certain amount would not pay tax , however , in reality everybody paid out more and remember Harold Wilson 's pound in your pocket speech ? |
| 3 | Alternatively , let him fly high to act as a aerial patrol to intercept an enemy trying the same thing . |
| 4 | A footballer done the same thing . |
| 5 | The Shannon Development Company had a ‘ Matchmaker ’ service to match up the capacities of local suppliers with the needs of industrial purchasers , the Irish Development Authority ‘ Project Identification Unit ’ supplied local firms with information on the purchasing requirements of the multinationals , and the Irish Goods Council did the same thing . |
| 6 | ‘ I promise you , ’ she says , ‘ there is n't a woman who does n't come out of a bad divorce thinking the same thing . ’ |
| 7 | We also have the paradox that ( as Posner , 1972 , p. 153 admits ) those same people who tend to argue that the common law promotes efficiency also reject the idea that regulatory law does the same thing . |
| 8 | In these circumstances I thought it would better serve the interests of air safety generally if a properly appointed accredited representative had the right to do the same thing . |
| 9 | Sometimes , when Henry was trying to write a letter of apology to the analyst for having quit , and wondering whether the man was all right — and when Finch was pondering the need to do the same thing — they would wander off together and watch Cecil coaching the people he referred to as ‘ the speaking parts . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Every time we started doing a piece of research , ’ said an NCC officer , ‘ we 'd find the CEGB then commissioned another research team to investigate the same thing . ’ |
| 11 | A common response to the claim that I am making about observation , supported by the kinds of examples I have utilized , is that observers viewing the same scene from the same place see the same thing but interpret what they see differently . |
| 12 | In the same day we went to Oulton board to do the same thing but in freezing cold water that was not as much fun as the survival tank . |
| 13 | Detective Inspector Frank Wilkinson of Skelmersdale CID said : ‘ We want to find this man before he has a chance to do the same thing again . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | It did not take Wigg much time to decide that he had been misled , although a fair-minded examination of the facts from the Hansard of the day proved no such thing . |
| 16 | My right hon. Friend said no such thing , as the right hon. Gentleman knows . |
| 17 | What makes us greet the man is not an albeit swift chain of inference , it is his presence which commands the acknowledgement while the presence of the tree does no such thing . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Does topic mean the same thing as theme , that is , what the message is about ? |
| 20 | Now that two hundred pound will only pay one man for a for a week to do the same thing . |
| 21 | That 's how people live these days , you know , my daughter did the same thing with her husband , you know , they 're in a |
| 22 | Boats from Bodrum quayside do the same thing , though it 's difficult to tell if you 're letting yourself in for a one way job , or a round trip including a meal at some distant restaurant ! |
| 23 | California 's Apple Computer did the same thing in a bigger way last October , when it halved the price-tag on its popular Macintosh model . |
| 24 | But both the ancient emperor and the modern mystic observe the same thing — the obedience of faith and the stamp of personal conviction which are hallmarks of Christian discipleship . |
| 25 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
| 26 | It is in a way saying the same thing as the preface to The Reason of Church Government . |
| 27 | Another tom did the same thing , supplying his female with food while she was unable to leave the nest during the first days after producing her litter . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole . |
| 30 | As discussed in Chapters 3 and 5 , whole group work rarely means the whole class doing the same thing at the same time . |