Example sentences of "different [noun] [to-vb] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Such communities may tolerate a wide range of different forms to express the same item .
2 Other researchers have used different labels to describe the same distinction , for example , control , manoeuvring and strategical levels ( e.g. Janssen , 1979 ; Verwey , 1990 ) .
3 I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea .
4 Interface details may be qualitatively insubstantial , after all the program is a spreadsheet program , not an interface program , and may be written in different code to achieve the same purpose .
5 How does having their own individual time cause people traveling at different speeds to measure the same speed of light ?
6 Mr Honecker chose a different image to make the same point : attempts to destabilise socialism , he said , are like ‘ the fruitless attacks by Don Quixote against windmills that continue to turn imperturbably . ’
7 An " unseen " exam paper allows different examiners to mark the same answers independently and to arrive at a fairly consistent and impartial assessment of the candidate 's overall performance and potential .
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