Example sentences of "not the same " in BNC.
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| 31 | But takeovers are not the same as bankruptcies . |
| 32 | Investment bankers come calling , the insurer says , but ‘ their ultimate goal is not the same as ours ’ . |
| 33 | For Locke , it was argued , the absurdity would follow that while the general is the same person as the officer , and he the same as the boy , the general is not the same person as the boy . |
| 34 | Why can not the same thing be said about extension ? |
| 35 | When we say that what we see is a mile away , we must mean that were we to move forward a mile , we would be ‘ affected with such and such ideas of touch ’ ; and so Berkeley concludes that the things we see are not the same as those we touch . |
| 36 | It was not the same . |
| 37 | As it was , the Church was simply acting to preserve its interests and these were not the same as the interests of the Party . |
| 38 | Shame and penance are not the same things . |
| 39 | Suicide , when someone decides to take their own life by one means or another , rather than waiting to die through illness or accident , is not the same as euthanasia which may be defined as assisted death and which is a subject beyond the scope of this book . |
| 40 | Solitary people often have a cat or dog as a companion too ; but it is not the same as having a companion of one 's own kind . |
| 41 | It 's not the same for boys , they are respected more in society . |
| 42 | But reserve is not the same as contestation , and people linked by descent were bound by their opposition to others , had a solidarity based on common ownership and defence , which seemed stronger than day-today resentments arising from a father 's control of his sons . |
| 43 | For example , subjects ( which can be people or , with suitable techniques , animals ) are asked whether two complex shapes , presented in different orientations , are or are not the same . |
| 44 | They are still Frenchmen , but not the same . ’ |
| 45 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 46 | There is considerable social mobility in Britain — see , for example , the careers of John Major , Neil Kinnock and the Archbishop of Canterbury — but mobility is not the same as equality . |
| 47 | This is not the same form of heroism as those who put themselves at risk for others . |
| 48 | They 're not the same as the ones from Noo Joisey , says Mom . |
| 49 | ‘ Real ’ science is often not the same as in textbooks . |
| 50 | Although the Commission found it ‘ disturbing ’ , it asserted that the damage was not the same as that seen abroad and it blamed the winter of 1983/4 . |
| 51 | The ‘ spoil-sport ’ is not the same as the false player , the cheat ; for the latter pretends to be playing the game and , on the face of it , still acknowledges the magic circle . |
| 52 | For instance , Susanne Langer , in most of her writing on Aesthetics has been concerned to establish that emotion expressed through Art is derived from but is not the same as that felt in real life . |
| 53 | Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’ |
| 54 | It has been pointed out that the legal protection of children 's welfare is not the same as the conferment of rights on children , since it presupposes that welfare agencies , judges and even parents would have the right to take decisions on the child 's behalf . |
| 55 | But there is , as part of our common culture , a good measure of agreement between any two people on many , though frequently not the same , points . |
| 56 | Yet consenting and promising , while overlapping , are not the same . |
| 57 | It 's not the same as dying in your own bed , is it ? ’ |
| 58 | In real circumstances , the ‘ nation ’ summarizes very complicated social and economic interests and classes which are not the same at different times , nor in different places . |
| 59 | That which is filmed is not the same as that which is broadcast . |
| 60 | Wealth was not to be flaunted , although as the children grew older they became aware that their father 's circumstances were not the same as those of brother officers who lived only on their Navy pay . |