Example sentences of "not the same " in BNC.

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1 To say this is not the same as complaining of his acknowledgement that poor people can have a good time .
2 ‘ It is not the same thing .
3 ‘ So Dr Iverson is a successful doctor , ’ murmured Henry Tyler ( which he knew was not the same as being a good one . )
4 It 's not the same deal . ’
5 ‘ The President 's not the same without you , ’ said Michael .
6 And , contrary to Hume 's contention , being very dimly in consciousness is not the same as being thought of .
7 ‘ It 's not the same thing down there .
8 Edward Aveling 's interests in the signs of class were not the same as Eleanor 's .
9 As for the curves in this selection , the C13 and C14 were not the same , and therefore the work that was possible with one tool could not be repeated on its mirror image with its counterpart .
10 The struggle to decipher has been presented as a good thing in itself , though construing sentences is not the same thing as achieving intellectual understanding .
11 The political and financial capital already invested in the Channel tunnel project should ensure it bores on somehow — but that is not the same thing as Eurotunnel 's survival .
12 The plaintiffs contended that the commissioner was not a court of competent jurisdiction , and that the issue before him of whether the entries in the register were validly made was not the same as the issue in the action , which was whether the road verges formed part of the highway .
13 It 's very weird to see yourself ; looking in the mirror is not the same thing as seeing yourself three-dimensionally , which is very , very peculiar , ’ says Howard , who politely declined the chance to take his effigy home at the end of filming .
14 Perceptions are not the same thing as knowledge , but they are what the holder of the perception believes to be knowledge .
15 To his surprise , he discovered that what was needed to make a powerful political speech was not the same gift as that which was needed to make a powerful sermon .
16 ‘ Seeing through a glass darkly ’ , he once told an ecumenical committee , ‘ is not the same thing as an ecumenical fog. , After the war he began to travel to meetings as a consultant .
17 Even if the equation could be established , the beneficiaries are not the same or do not see themselves as the same : the patients paying two shillings for their bottles of medicine do not identify themselves with the patients admitted to hospital sooner or treated more efficiently .
18 The myth that a man makes has transformations according as he sees himself as hero or villain , as young or old , but it is essentially the same myth ; Tom Jones is not the same person , but he is the same myth as Squire Western ; Midshipman Easy is part of the same myth ; Falstaff is elevated above the myth to dwell on Olympus , more than a national character .
19 Camp is not the same as gender inversion , but it often connects with it , and with good reason .
20 The two things are not the same , and , although Marx and Engels are not very clear , they do attempt to distinguish them .
21 But in towns , even in small towns it is not the same .
22 ‘ But it 's … you know … it 's not the same . ’
23 Not the same as what ? ’
24 Not the same as … as … you know … . ’
25 We can account for what he was doing with his time , but this is not the same thing as explaining how or why the tone of voice — that vigour , that distinctively Lewisian freshness and vitality — was so long in coming .
26 ‘ But I 'm not the same person .
27 This is not the same as ‘ force-feeding ’ doctrine ; one can sympathise with Jayne Greenwell 's reservations , but we should be careful what gets thrown out with the bathwater .
28 Remember that quotations and estimates are not the same thing , and that a low estimate can very easily turn into a high bill .
29 You know it when you experience it , but it is not the same thing as standards of living or GNP ; it is not quantifiable and not necessarily ‘ environmental ’ .
30 Yet getting talks started — whether between the Europeans and Iraq or , better still , the Americans and Iraq — is not the same thing as avoiding war .
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