Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [not/n't] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are and I I think the whole trouble with Jenny was that not having , I mean , I was alright as a sort of mum subject I was n't the same as a bona fide mum that could be called upon in all weathers , at all times , to do everything |
| 2 | She 'd said that once you knew about things like frogs living in flowers , you were n't the same person . |
| 3 | I 've got five sisters ; she was n't the same with them . |
| 4 | She was n't the same Juliet Avery who had cycled to the hospital yesterday morning , blithe and carefree . |
| 5 | She was n't the same . |
| 6 | But she was not the same as them , she could not pretend to be . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Cuvier investigated the bones of the ancient elephants and showed that they were not the same as the living African and Indian elephants . |
| 9 | It also distorted the colours in the presentation — they were not the same as those on the monitor . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But they were n't the same superior quality as those Mr Watson Taylor brought because they wore out . |
| 12 | Or a couple , who talked a lot about how things had been , and how they were n't the same now . |
| 13 | They were n't the same people any more . |
| 14 | This evening I tried to read some of Alcestis , but it was n't the same . |
| 15 | But it was n't the same when they went to school . |
| 16 | It was n't the same story but it was a story about seals . |
| 17 | Communism had been his religion , the romantic , revolutionary communism of 1917 and Petrograd and the streets full of soldiers and sailors and workers and red flags and armoured cars that looked as if they were made of galvanised steel buckets , and the cruiser Aurora out on the river with its searchlight blazing — now there was a fairground panel he could have painted if only he could have got away with it — but it was n't the same any more . |
| 18 | It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter . |
| 19 | ‘ That bloody bike , ’ she said , although she knew it was n't the same one . |
| 20 | It was n't the same voice . |
| 21 | With Molly gone , it was n't the same . |
| 22 | The parties went on at lartington Hall but it was n't the same place after the death of Mr Field . |
| 23 | I had the crowd around me , shuffling slowly into a large ground-skim heading for city centre , but it was n't the same . |
| 24 | Er and not many fresh eggs but we did get dried eggs which were , were , it was n't a bad substitute but it was n't the same as a fresh egg but you could scramble them and you could use them for cooking but then you see there was very little fat . |
| 25 | Wallas Ward was filling in , exercising his rather effete charm on the guests , but it was n't the same . |
| 26 | Any erm deficiency at the end of the financial year was made up by a rate demand , erm so i the it was n't the same in all municipal undertakings , some of them were allowed to carry forward their balances but Ipswich , whether it was erm , er by law or er a , oh I do n't know what it be , perhaps needed that they got to be , the erm balance of the year had to be balanced at the end of the year , so you had a rate demand and of course that rate demand went on to the next year 's rates . |
| 27 | ‘ It — it was n't the same . |
| 28 | But it was n't the same . |
| 29 | ‘ It was n't the same . |
| 30 | ‘ Maybe I should have realised it was n't the same for Claire . |