Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] not the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With regard to the former , Arnauld argued against Malebranche that ‘ objective presence ’ to a mind does not require ‘ local presence ’ , and that for something to be objectively present to a mind is not the same thing as for it to be causally active on it . |
| 2 | Moreover , to say that a set of activities and skills partakes of the general discipline of librarianship is not the same thing as saying that all people who have ever been trained as librarians can perform them , or that they must be performed by people whose training is only that of the professional librarian . |
| 3 | These sediments are only slightly compactible , but with others ( particularly muds ) it must be realised that the thickness of new sediment is not the same thing as the thickness of the rock that results from it . |
| 4 | Commenting on Gladstone 's support for the scheme , the News of the World said : " picking up type is not the same thing as picking up needles and stitches : the mental and physical labour demanded in the compositors " room is infinitely greater than anything that has yet been required of women " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Financial need is not the same thing as housing need . |
| 7 | A ‘ global ’ product is not the same thing as a ‘ global ’ firm or a ‘ global ’ industry . |
| 8 | Such a cleric has long recognised that his personal belief is not the same thing as historical evidence , and he has effected some kind of personal reconciliation between the two — a reconciliation which , to a greater or lesser degree , manages to accommodate both . |
| 9 | But introducing an abstract noun is not the same thing as providing an explanation . |
| 10 | Of course , watching or half-watching a debate is not the same thing as taking part in one , and it might well be argued that level or style of participation does not demand enough of the individual citizen . |
| 11 | Here enforcement is not the once-and-for-all response with the binary outcomes of a sanctioning system , but a serial , incremental , continuing process . |
| 12 | The receipt given to the air shipper is not the same arrival document sent to the consignee ; it could hardly be the same document given the shortness of air travel time . |
| 13 | Not necessarily by supporting the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament or some other " peace " organization , since concern is not the same thing as supporting a particular policy for disarmament . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Secondly , this is not a comparative evaluation of different models of service , since the standardised diagnostic assessment carried out in this study by the research psychiatrist is not the same process of assessment that occurs in domiciliary visits performed by psychogeriatricians in more traditional services . |
| 16 | But the pedagogic methodology of application is not the same kind of operation as the conventional research methodology of selective observation and controlled experiment . |
| 17 | This is because information is not the same sort of thing as a car . |
| 18 | Self-confidence is not the same thing as intellectual certainty or moral infallibility . |
| 19 | Indicating that all supervisory staff have a training responsibility is not the same thing as having a ‘ suitably augmented team ’ . |
| 20 | The ruling class may be an alliance of classes and the maintenance of hegemony is not the same thing as a monolithic dominant ideology . |
| 21 | She dislikes clinical method because ‘ years of clinical experience is not the same thing as empirical evidence ’ ( 1973 : 232 , 234 ) . |
| 22 | A lively memory is not the same thing as a colourful retelling of spiritual experiences . |
| 23 | But one can see immediately that that is not so : the task of the modules is translation , and so the task of each translation module is therefore different ( translating a poem from English to Chinese is not the same task as translating that poem from Chinese to French ) . |
| 24 | It goes without saying that stating the problem is not the same thing as solving it in practice ! |
| 25 | But survival is not the same thing as reproduction a d there is likely to be a trade-off . |
| 26 | As Kipling complained , they hardly noticed it when it was there ; and since its conversion into a Commonwealth of Nations in 1947 , with Indian independence , they have hardly noticed that a Commonwealth is not the same thing . |