Example sentences of "[was/were] not the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward Aveling 's interests in the signs of class were not the same as Eleanor 's . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As it was , the Church was simply acting to preserve its interests and these were not the same as the interests of the Party . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But a central conclusion of Tuttle , that the creatures of Laetoli were not the same species as ‘ Lucy ’ and the ‘ first family ’ of Ethiopia , was challenged immediately . |
| 6 | There was a night nurse and a day nurse but these were not the same as either ‘ family ’ or ‘ friend ’ . |
| 7 | By and large , the occasions when the nobility might exploit a situation as cavalry and those when artillery could be used to best effect were not the same . |
| 8 | When asked , ‘ Are nation and state the same , or are we talking about different things ? ’ 43% of West Germans — 81% among the most educated — gave the obvious answer that they were not the same , since two German states coexisted . |
| 9 | They represent a time when either their objects were not the same as those of the official organization , or the CCO was not enterprising enough to suit them . |
| 10 | But things were not the same between Mr Trelawney and the captain . |
| 11 | Cuvier investigated the bones of the ancient elephants and showed that they were not the same as the living African and Indian elephants . |
| 12 | Wanting and achieving , however , were not the same . |
| 13 | ‘ Those were not the same people I had known ; they were homeless , with no nest around them and no children . |
| 14 | It 's easy to see the same thing happening today ; when the United States troops went to Somalia , earlier this year , their officers had hardly anything to do with the local experts , preferring to stick with their prejudices about the lack of intelligence of those whose skins were not the same colour as their own . |
| 15 | Literariness being defined as the difference between automatism and defamiliarization , it was soon perceived that it was not constructed in the same way in all works , and that the devices manifesting difference in prose narrative were not the same as the devices manifesting difference in lyric poetry . |
| 16 | It also distorted the colours in the presentation — they were not the same as those on the monitor . |
| 17 | He had found 250 generic names in BG-BASE which were not the same as the recent Kew list . |
| 18 | In its formal reading of the judgment on March 27 , the Court of Appeal vindicated the three appeal judges , led by Lord Lane , who in 1987 had dismissed the mens ' appeals , saying that the scientific issues were not the same . |
| 19 | His reason is that he can not be sure of what code of manners were followed there and if they were not the same as his it would seem as if he were almost a bully in chasing down someone below his class . |
| 20 | I think you will recall Mr my my views on the East Grinstead by-pass were not the same as those |
| 21 | My idea of a nature reserve and what I was actually looking at were not the same thing at all . |
| 22 | I was talking to a woman and she was saying that young people were n't the same in her day . |
| 23 | But they were n't the same superior quality as those Mr Watson Taylor brought because they wore out . |
| 24 | She 'd said that once you knew about things like frogs living in flowers , you were n't the same person . |
| 25 | Or a couple , who talked a lot about how things had been , and how they were n't the same now . |
| 26 | Things , he often told Stella , were n't the same , and neither was he . |
| 27 | They were n't the same people any more . |
| 28 | ‘ So Dr Iverson is a successful doctor , ’ murmured Henry Tyler ( which he knew was not the same as being a good one . ) |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |