Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [art] [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | , my mother does the same thing , no . |
| 6 | Subsidiarity does no such thing . |