Example sentences of "[pron] means the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which means the same thing to me . |
| 2 | Every time you learn one verb you have to learn another verb as well , which means the same thing , only in a different time-frame . |
| 3 | Which means the same leg 's hanging round . |
| 4 | Such scepticism seems academic against the working assurance that everyone means the same by ‘ The bus is late ’ and ‘ It 's going to rain' . |
| 5 | I suppose it means the same in French , does n't it ? |
| 6 | It is much quicker , and it means the same , if we say Yes I do or Yes I think so . |
| 7 | I can assert of the oldest tree in the park ( if there is such a tree ) that it is an oak , but I can also say of the sentence " The oldest tree in the park is an oak " that it means the same , or that it expresses same thought as , say , its French or Chinese translation , irrespective of whether it says anything true . |
| 8 | Nearer home , our ‘ Arabic ’ numerals are examples of symbols of the kind Wilkins wanted : ‘ 2 ’ may be read as ‘ two ’ or ‘ zwei ’ , but to the English or German speaker it means the same . |
| 9 | The noises made when an Englishman a Frenchman and a German read aloud ‘ 2 + 2 = 4 ’ are different , but to all of them it means the same . |
| 10 | Communication is not achieved by putting something that means — one thing to us in front of someone else and hoping that it means the same thing to that other person . |
| 11 | We do enough succession planning in C U you know it 's magic you know , you know number two like it 's smashing number two it 's still you know , you know young children , number two has a different connotation to what it does here , but definitely if you are a number two here , it means the same to what a child thinks it is , but I |
| 12 | If the same word is used in more than one place in a document , it will be assumed that it means the same thing each time it appears . |
| 13 | It means the same thing . |