Example sentences of "to [art] [det] thing " in BNC.
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1 | In his reference to the poll tax , the hon. Member for Teignbridge referred to the many things that had to be built on to it and the many anomalies that had to be addressed . |
2 | Her world had shrunk to the few things which still had interest for her . |
3 | The terms ‘ old age ’ and ‘ retirement ’ are often used interchangeably , but they do not necessarily refer to the same things . |
4 | They smiled into each other 's faces , pointing to the same things at the same time , sharing . |
5 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |
6 | And literature will amount to the same thing : all writers are copycats . |
7 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
8 | He now wishes he had used the phrase ‘ cycles of disadvantage ’ instead , though it all comes to the same thing — when poverty is perpetuated through family patterns , generation after generation . |
9 | Like , we get literally hundreds of calls on Friday and Saturday nights and we 're sending vehicles out to the same thing every time . |
10 | ‘ It comes to the same thing . ’ |
11 | In America 's case that should amount to the same thing . |
12 | ‘ No , I 'm a scientist , but it amounts to the same thing . ’ |
13 | ‘ It amounts to the same thing , surely ! ’ |
14 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | In such cases the addition of organic matter , slag , or lime will be essential if the farming system is to be maintained without a drastic drop in fertility and production — or the breakdown of soil structure which ultimately leads to the same thing . |
17 | In the early 1970s , in the heyday of abstract philosophy of education , it was commonplace to draw a distinction between education ‘ in the true sense ’ and pseudo-education ; or , which came to the same thing , between education and training . |
18 | If you are a man and you shave , there is no need to bother with the oatmeal scrub because shaving amounts to the same thing . |
19 | Any measure based on ratios ( or , what amounts to the same thing , differences in logs ) is to be preferred . |
20 | The second is tantamount to the same thing in reverse . |
21 | This happened once while I was at Binbrook , and we were all jailed for a week — well , con fined to our quarters , really , but it amounted to the same thing . |
22 | Every one of his books points to the same thing — unless we apply inhibition in our lives we will never be able to use intelligence in the way it was designed — to assist fulfilment . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | When electrical currents flow they produce magnetic fields and so it is possible that these two therapies amount to the same thing . |
25 | It amounted to the same thing for him . |
26 | It starts by proclaiming that God is dead or what comes to the same thing , that if he exists he is irrelevant . |
27 | It 'll come down to the same thing . ’ |
28 | Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) . |
29 | It came back to the same thing . |
30 | 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 . |