Example sentences of "[vb base] to the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not very far from the belief that pleasure and happiness amount to the same thing — a belief with deep flaws , as we saw in an earlier chapter . |
| 2 | If this is the case , then means and ends amount to the same thing since the same moral demands apply to both in the quest for Truth . |
| 3 | When electrical currents flow they produce magnetic fields and so it is possible that these two therapies amount to the same thing . |
| 4 | In our society , such ritual celebrations of changes of status through ageing are now restricted to religious occasions like baptism , confirmation and burial , though ‘ coming-of-age ’ parties amount to the same thing . |
| 5 | Charges often amount to the same thing . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought you were only interested in certain-death scenarios and fighting Daleks which come to the same thing . ’ |
| 7 | and which angle we work with it still come to the same thing . |
| 8 | They dug up an old catalogue reference to it : it seems to be that honest banking practice and churchgoing come to the same thing ungodly Marxism leads to phoney exchange rates . ’ |