Example sentences of "be the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They are the same thing . |
| 3 | For many people , time and money are the same thing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So Love and Life are the same thing . |
| 6 | Let us suppose for the moment that we have shown that in Z irreducibles and primes are the same thing . |
| 7 | However , neither should it be assumed that grade mix and skill mix are the same thing . |
| 8 | They are utterances in which saying the words and doing the action are the same thing : the function is created by the form . |
| 9 | The little drops and the ocean are the same thing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The transfer ratios differ in different applications of what might appear to be the same thing : V8 Ninety — 1.222:1 ; V8 One Ten — 1.410:1 and V8 Range Rover — 1.192:1 . |
| 12 | Hence it is not possible to obey a rule ‘ privately ’ : otherwise thinking one was obeying a rule would be the same thing as obeying it . |
| 13 | The utterly expected , the utterly unexpected , can they be the same thing , she wondered . |
| 14 | Learn to distinguish between the main point of the history book and the main point of your reading-they may not necessarily be the same thing . |
| 15 | And then there is how you behave , which may not be the same thing as the real self . |
| 16 | That must be the same thing . " |
| 17 | So we say that ‘ it is raining ’ when it is not at all clear what ‘ it ’ is , or ‘ the wind is blowing ’ when wind and blowing must necessarily be the same thing . |
| 18 | Where the task has been to make judgments of affective tone or extract central information from a slide , differences have emerged between central and peripheral details and this may well reflect the fact that attention to arousing information or central information ( which are assumed to be the same thing ) is explicitly required for task performance . |
| 19 | This is going to be the same thing , only it will be set in the future . |
| 20 | I do n't put a meaning on them for other people , they must form their own ideas ; I know what I meant when I made them , but it may not be the same thing for other people . |
| 21 | I think that must be the same thing . |
| 22 | But the two sinks the bidet and the toilet , were all like different shades , and you just like , yes , but is this all supposed to be the same thing . |
| 23 | But to me that has got to be the same thing . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Some people tend to sort of think of functions and mapping as being the same thing . |
| 26 | Loyalty and morality were the same thing to her . |
| 27 | He reminded Lanfranc of their early agreement that justice and truth were the same thing in different modes . |
| 28 | Ideas about the abnormality of disabled people that arise out of research based on adding together the particular psychological attributes of individual disabled people are then systematically misleading , since they fail to include ‘ social forces , structural features of society , institutional factors and so on ’ ( Lukes , 1973 , p. 122 ) in their explanations — in other words , because they treat disability as if it were the same thing as impairment . |
| 29 | Day and night were the same thing in this place . |
| 30 | No I think he generally thought they were the same thing , I think I would of done if I was n't an educationalist , but I mean it 's his business to know really is n't it ? |