Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [art] [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it looks as though hpGRF and hypothalamic GRF are the same thing in these species , and it should be only a matter of time before it is from the hypothalamus as well . |
| 2 | For many people , time and money are the same thing . |
| 3 | However , neither should it be assumed that grade mix and skill mix are the same thing . |
| 4 | They are utterances in which saying the words and doing the action are the same thing : the function is created by the form . |
| 5 | But of greater importance for the social anthropologists themselves is that in many societies the distinction between biological kinship and sociological kinship is quite clearly recognized and the degree of their identification or dissociation is a matter of formal rules : " Copulation and marriage are not the same thing " or : " Copulation and marriage are the same thing " as the case may be . |
| 6 | Loyalty and morality were the same thing to her . |
| 7 | In one way this statement is more conservative than the previous one in that it has elevated the popular usage ‘ Republican Sunday ’ to a part of party language and thus confirmed the belief that Catholicism and republicanism are the same thing , but it represents an important departure from previous positions in clearly tying the DUP 's position to that of the electorate . |
| 8 | He reminded Lanfranc of their early agreement that justice and truth were the same thing in different modes . |
| 9 | Let us suppose for the moment that we have shown that in Z irreducibles and primes are the same thing . |
| 10 | Day and night were the same thing in this place . |
| 11 | So Love and Life are the same thing . |
| 12 | It does n't matter to them that the so-called ‘ Stars ’ setting out next week on a gruelling four-month tour are no such thing . |
| 13 | The little drops and the ocean are the same thing . |
| 14 | CARDINAL : They re , for a Quaker and a Jesuit is the same thing . |
| 15 | It 's totally … it 's totally , I mean logically and legally , it 's a ridiculous distinction ; I do n't think the distinction is important — that what comes out in the end is the same thing ; I committed or omitted , however you want to put it — it 's all the same thing . |
| 16 | They do not claim that occupation is the same thing as social class , but rather that it is the best single indicator of all those aspects of a person that make up their social class position . |
| 17 | Because I do n't think wages for housework is the same thing as saying that when women have to give up their jobs when their kids are little , or if there are n't no nurseries , that they should have bigger family allowances , that is n't the same as saying wages for housework , is it ? |
| 18 | In both cases they have been led to believe that true faith is doubt-free and that doubt is the same thing ( and just as sinful ) as unbelief . |
| 19 | Perhaps he was moved by the recollection that the argument propounded by Anselm had its origin in his own comment on an intricate saying of St Paul about truth and justice being the same thing in different modes ; perhaps too he felt some remorse at his impatient dismissal of so many of the saints venerated at Canterbury , when so clever a man as Anselm could take Elphege seriously . |
| 20 | ‘ I say what 's happening with the Bloods and the Crips is the same thing that 's happening with the protestants and catholics in Northern Ireland , which is the same thing that 's happening in South Africa where different tribes fight each other . |