Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] to the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his paper ‘ Analysis Terminable and Interminable ’ ( 1937 ) , which belongs to the same period of Freud 's life as Moses and Monotheism , Freud writes about the way in which nearly all women patients show signs of wishing to be men , and men seek to avoid taking a passive attitude towards other men , including a male therapist . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Users often report experiencing the sort of twisted non-Euclidian dimensions associated with the Old Ones , so it 's reasonable to assume that this is how Mait made contact with them , or with whatever race memory remains of them , which amounts to the same thing . ’ |
| 4 | Readers usually know something about authors whose books they have read , and even if they don " t know anything , it is natural to imagine an author figure , which amounts to the same thing . |
| 5 | I 've fallen for a boy who goes to the same school as me , but is two years younger than I am . |
| 6 | But press officer for Jet , John Maple , who belongs to the same union as Mr Keeping , says that there are statutory reasons why this morning 's protest may have been in vain . |
| 7 | They convey to someone who belongs to the same culture a lot of information about the person who is wearing or carrying them . |
| 8 | What one hopes , of course , is to find that one comes to the same conclusions from using the neuropsychological method as from using psychological methods of investigation : and , as we will show in Chapter 9 , such agreements between conclusions do actually occur . |
| 9 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 10 | If in doubt , one compares another specimen with the type in order to see if it belongs to the same species . |
| 11 | True , it belongs to the same group of viruses , but within that group it is only distantly related . |
| 12 | It is related to the hedgehog , or rather it belongs to the same family of insectivores . |
| 13 | In the passage , he refers to the same combination of righteousness and giving the honour to God : |
| 14 | ‘ No , I 'm a scientist , but it amounts to the same thing . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It amounts to the same thing , surely ! ’ |
| 16 | This last point does not necessarily mean that you have to be using a page description language but , for the moment at least , it amounts to the same thing . |
| 17 | and then it gets to the same value again |
| 18 | He returns to the same circumstances as before , to associate with the same peer group , and starts behaving the same way as before . |
| 19 | As long as it comes to the same man hours , then that 's it . |
| 20 | ‘ It comes to the same thing . ’ |
| 21 | Distances getting longer , tape measures getting shorter — either way , it comes to the same thing . ’ |
| 22 | So it comes to the same thing . |
| 23 | The way in which this is worked out in law may be that it would be an abuse of the process of the court to allow the creditor under such circumstances to sue , or it may be , and I prefer that view , that there is an extinction of the debt ; but , whichever way it is put , it comes to the same thing , namely that , after acceptance by the creditor of a sum offered by a third party in settlement of the claim against the debtor , the creditor can not maintain an action for the balance … . |
| 24 | It , it comes to the same thing does n't it ? . |
| 25 | I think it comes to the same thing . |
| 26 | I think it comes to the same thing . |
| 27 | Any measure based on ratios ( or , what amounts to the same thing , differences in logs ) is to be preferred . |
| 28 | It starts by proclaiming that God is dead or what comes to the same thing , that if he exists he is irrelevant . |
| 29 | Or what comes to the same thing judges changed their minds about what aspects or features of past decisions they were required to follow . |