Example sentences of "be the same thing " in BNC.
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31 | We are we we 've got an amp meter and a volt meter and I thought they were the same thing you see . |
32 | To ask them , and equally ( or even more ) to wave them away absentmindedly like circling insects , is to greet the novel , to respond to its personality which is the same thing as the tonal area colonized by the novelist for his present purpose . |
33 | Consequently , to maintain a constant level of satisfaction — or , what is the same thing , of dissatisfaction — with the health services , expenditure upon them ought relatively to increase somewhat in real terms . |
34 | ‘ You 're avoiding the truth , which is the same thing . |
35 | 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 . |
36 | 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 ? |
37 | There are three basic misconceptions which are especially common : first , that doubt is wrong because it is the same thing as unbelief ; second , that doubt is a problem which troubles faith but not knowledge ; and third , that doubt is something to be ashamed of because it is dishonest to believe if you have doubts . |
38 | 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 . |
39 | What motivates him is the same thing as motivates the riders . |
40 | 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 . |
41 | Social justice means that we deny ourselves many things so that others may have to do without them as well , or , what is the same thing , may not be able to ask for them . |
42 | ‘ 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 . |
43 | ‘ 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 . |
44 | Patriotism , says the new party leader Jiang Zemin , is the same thing as socialism . |
45 | ‘ Before you can convict you must he satisfied so that you feel sure — which is the same thing as being satisfied beyond reasonable doubt of the defendant 's guilt . ’ |
46 | CARDINAL : They re , for a Quaker and a Jesuit is the same thing . |
47 | Entirely different sides of the Engines come with ‘ The Reunion 's ’ nods at West Coast country-rock , the easy beat carrying tuneful vocals ; ‘ Cold Pennies ’ is the same thing minus the country , a thrashing solo section dropped in and out again just . |
48 | ‘ Every time we meet , it is the same thing . |
49 | If we now compute a weighted sum , or what is the same thing , the sum of the A-measures at each exposure , then for a given subject area this sum will increase as the reflected light intensity increases , since more pixels will be seen at each exposure . |
50 | In the end that is the same thing as Andrew Murray has been attempting to do since he joined the Tour in 1979 . |
51 | This epiphany of the mother of the immediate-return hunter-gatherers — or of the new-born and unweaned child , which is the same thing — was clearly designed to compensate for her loss in reality . |
52 | Entirely different sides of the Engines come with ‘ The Reunion 's ’ nods at West Coast country-rock , the easy beat carrying tuneful vocals ; ‘ Cold Pennies ’ is the same thing minus the country , a thrashing solo section dropped in and out again just . |
53 | The only duty of the tenant is to use the premises in a husbandlike , or what is the same thing , a tenantlike manner … |
54 | ‘ It is the same thing . ’ |
55 | Is the same thing . |
56 | it was gorgeous but Chris was saying that Tescos do one , but they call it passion cake which is the same thing |
57 | This is the same thing though ? |
58 | No , it is , it is the same thing actually . |
59 | Last time there is the same thing as last night , they 've lost someone as well . |
60 | We can see the whole world here , the Empire , that 's the same thing as the whole world , and you 'll profit by it . |