Example sentences of "[prep] saying the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed like two equivalent ways of saying the same thing , and which form of words you chose seemed a matter of taste . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps that 's another way of saying the same thing , ’ Hepzibah said . |
| 3 | To back up the intuitive sense that there are " different ways of saying the same thing " , Ohmann ( in the article quoted ) enlists the authority of linguistics . |
| 4 | Let us think again about what is good in the dualist position : it captures the insight that two pieces of language can be seen as alternative ways of saying the same thing : that is , that there can be STYLISTIC VARIANTS with different STYLISTIC VALUES . |
| 5 | We could say simply — John ate fish and chips but there are many other ways of saying the same thing : |
| 6 | But in her earlier study where she had viewed the alternants as being ‘ equivalent ways of saying the same thing ’ she did not attempt to ‘ account for the interplay between the differences in modal meaning and the social conditioning in the use of these forms ’ ( Lavandera 1982 : 90 — her translation ) . |
| 7 | The patterns could be interpreted in different ways ; one possibility is to argue that the correlation with extra-linguistic variables constitutes evidence that the forms are simply different ways of saying the same thing , that differences in modal meaning which do not affect truth-conditions are merely stylistic and so may be ignored . |
| 8 | He came to the conclusion , as he puts it , ‘ that the eternal world is trivial , and that mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words . ’ |