Example sentences of "one and the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | In which case ‘ history ’ becomes a force to be resisted by readers who like literature , and who may also like history , but have never thought they were one and the same thing . |
| 2 | This inequality , argue Marx and Engels , implies a form of private property , because exclusion from the means of production ( private property ) and compulsion of the labour of others , are one and the same thing . |
| 3 | We assumed that Elsie 's death explained her disappearance , that the two events were one and the same thing . |
| 4 | They are not separate substances but different degrees or ‘ octaves ’ of matter , as ice and its formative gaseous substance are one and the same thing and are interconvertible . |
| 5 | One and the same thing , really . |
| 6 | This expands the availability of shapes and patterns even further , because the basic Form Computer and its programs are one and the same thing for both makes of machine — Passap System and Singer System . |
| 7 | I now say : that to talk about perceived-as appearances , and to talk about what , on looking at things , listening to them , and so on , we would believe about them if we had no reason to think otherwise , are to talk about one and the same thing . |
| 8 | Ullman therefore suggests ( contra empiricists and Piaget ) that a baby — or , one might add , a kingfisher — can see that two appearances are views of one and the same object even if it has never seen that sort of object before , and even if it has no tactile or manipulative evidence suggesting that they pertain to one and the same thing . |
| 9 | Recall that we are temporarily assuming that irreducibles and primes are one and the same thing in Z. |
| 10 | What people say and what people do is not always one and the same thing . |
| 11 | But it is still wrong to think that here research and higher education are one and the same thing . |
| 12 | Completing the internal or single European market and 1992 are one and the same thing . |
| 13 | Bones ( 1986b : 55 ) : " For reggae , most definitely , the music and the language are one and the same thing . |