Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] mean the same " in BNC.

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1 A former Minister of the Republic of Ireland told me recently that sovereignty did not mean the same for the people of Ireland as it did for us .
2 Whether two expressions do or do not mean the same is a matter of some importance , but , again , it is evidently not something we should expect informants to tell us directly .
3 But more important , once the semantics of the two constructions is examined , the hypothesis of meaningless variants must be ruled out once and for all : the two constructions do not mean the same thing .
4 To some extent the difference between this view and the developmental approach is one of semantics : the term ‘ global company ’ does not mean the same to each .
5 But I am saying that the phrase ‘ there occur mental processes ’ does not mean the same sort of thing as ‘ there occur physical processes ’ , and , therefore , that it makes no sense to conjoin or disjoin the two .
6 Naturally the poem does not mean the same thing for him as for Bilbo .
7 ‘ Mechanically propelled vehicle ’ does not mean the same as ‘ Motor vehicle ’ as defined in the glossary at page 2 .
8 Furthermore , ‘ AB appears shorter than BC ’ does not mean the same as ‘ AB is in my opinion shorter than BC ’ .
9 In our country to exchange gifts does not mean the same thing .
10 How then are we to explain that ( 22 ) does not mean the same as ( 22 ) ? ( 22 ) Having a child and getting married is better than getting married and having a child We have to provide a pragmatic account , along the following lines .
11 ‘ Not proven does not mean the same as not guilty or totally exonerated , ’ he said .
12 It does n't mean the same .
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