Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] to the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | In principle for any word bearing an inflectional affix , it is possible to find contexts where all possible substitutes must contain either the same affix , or one belonging to the same closed set : consider the possible substitutes for walked in Cedric walked home , longer in Mine is longer than yours or books in those books . |
| 2 | It starts by proclaiming that God is dead or what comes to the same thing , that if he exists he is irrelevant . |
| 3 | Or what comes to the same thing judges changed their minds about what aspects or features of past decisions they were required to follow . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 6 | As neighbours of the enormously powerful and expansionist United States , the Canadians had a direct and abiding interest in maintaining for their part the fiction that they belonged to the same political entity of the rich and powerful United Kingdom . |
| 7 | Apart from errors and omissions these are defined in the National Accounts in such a way that they come to the same value . |
| 8 | Most speakers would agree , I think , that Mary wore a red dress and Mary wore a blue dress were contraries ( assuming , of course , that they refer to the same occasion , and that Mary , as would be normal , wore only one dress at a time ) ; the colour terms refer to the predominant colour of the dress , and there can be only one predominant colour . |
| 9 | It may be shown ( using the criterion that they lead to the same set of equations ) that by adding the so-called leakage inductances to the ideal transformer the two representations ( Fig. 4.11 ) become equivalent . |
| 10 | This is like forensic science , where the more ‘ matches ’ one finds between two fingerprints , the greater the certainty that they belong to the same person . |
| 11 | The tags in the corpus must also be translated so that they conform to the same tagset as this new lexicon . |
| 12 | According to this view , interbreeding is at the same time the criterion of whether two forms belong to the same species ( e.g. the dark and pale forms of the arctic skua interbreed freely , so they belong to the same species ) , and also the reason why organisms in nature do fall into discrete categories , with few intermediates . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | If you eat more on some days and less on others , you will shed weight just as successfully as if you stuck to the same number of calories each day . |
| 15 | Bring towels and spare clothes , if you intend to the same as last year ! |
| 16 | It 's best if you keep to the same time each week for regular activities , though be prepared to be flexible about it . |
| 17 | He said , and it 's really good , he said , cos I 'm , I 'm celebrating my fortieth birthday , he said , and I ring my boys , he said , and they listen to the same sort of music I do . |
| 18 | He 'd met Sean Penn maybe 20 times , and they went to the same clubs on Melrose and Sunset , even if not at the same time or on the same night . |
| 19 | And they make to the same place to their feed . |
| 20 | If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier . |
| 21 | If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier . |
| 22 | Madden got shifted from that division — you only got shifted if you were in trouble — and he came to the same division as myself . |
| 23 | ‘ Her sisters and mine went to the same school . ’ |
| 24 | If in doubt , one compares another specimen with the type in order to see if it belongs to the same species . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't know about that , but it came to the same thing , I suppose . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ No , I 'm a scientist , but it amounts to the same thing . ’ |
| 28 | Tottenham 's dilemma was well chronicled last year , but one wonders how long it will be before they return to the same situation . |
| 29 | The author disguised herself as an eighty-year old and reports considerable discrimination in shops and on public transport which disappeared when she returned to the same situations in her normal persona . |
| 30 | Presumably the washed-up film hoofer and the prima ballerina are thinking about each other as a preliminary to working together , falling in love and starting a bright new phase of their respective careers together ; and no doubt their movements ‘ unconsciously ’ fall into a complementary rhythm as they dance to the same music . |