Example sentences of "comes to the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It comes to the same thing . ’ |
| 4 | It starts by proclaiming that God is dead or what comes to the same thing , that if he exists he is irrelevant . |
| 5 | And four sixths comes to the same as two thirds . |
| 6 | Distances getting longer , tape measures getting shorter — either way , it comes to the same thing . ’ |
| 7 | A boy comes to the same house the next day and because one arm is injured , they think he must be the robber . |
| 8 | So it does n't matter which way you do it whether you get four twelfths , two sixths , or one third , they 're all the same they all comes to the same thing . |
| 9 | So it does n't these are all the same all comes to the same amount does n't it . |
| 10 | As long as it comes to the same man hours , then that 's it . |
| 11 | The public purse would not get anything ; after all , it all comes to the same thing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So it comes to the same thing . |
| 14 | 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 … . |
| 15 | that refusal of the creditor 's claim comes to the same thing as the extinction of the debt ? |
| 16 | Or what comes to the same thing judges changed their minds about what aspects or features of past decisions they were required to follow . |
| 17 | It , it comes to the same thing does n't it ? . |
| 18 | I think it comes to the same thing . |
| 19 | I think it comes to the same thing . |