Example sentences of "be not on the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The piano sonatas of Sir Michael Tippett are not on the same level of inspiration and invention as his string quartets , symphonies or concertos . |
| 2 | ‘ Other juniors are n't on the same planet as Joanne , when it comes to commitment . |
| 3 | The Roman Church had become very powerful and dismissed the Greeks as impious heretics who were not on the same level as the holy church of the West . |
| 4 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 5 | Lord Scarman 's inquiry was not on the same scale as the famous Kerner Report in 1968 on the US riots , but since the publication of his Report in November 1981 his views and prescriptions have played an important role in fashioning political debate about the riots . |
| 6 | Despite the repression practised by the Somoza regime in Nicaragua , its legacy of under-development was not on the same scale as that left by some 400 years of Portuguese colonial rule in Mozambique . |
| 7 | was not on the same line . |