Example sentences of "is [adv] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems more likely that the knot symbolized the bond between the communicant and the deity , or that it was an attempt to bind the deity by magic , which is much the same thing . |
| 2 | As far as we are concerned it is exactly the same thing , ’ says Mike Stock . |
| 3 | But self-confidence in the sense of psychological certitude is not the same things as absolute certainty in the philosophical sense . |
| 4 | ‘ It is not the same thing . |
| 5 | The struggle to decipher has been presented as a good thing in itself , though construing sentences is not the same thing as achieving intellectual understanding . |
| 6 | The political and financial capital already invested in the Channel tunnel project should ensure it bores on somehow — but that is not the same thing as Eurotunnel 's survival . |
| 7 | It 's very weird to see yourself ; looking in the mirror is not the same thing as seeing yourself three-dimensionally , which is very , very peculiar , ’ says Howard , who politely declined the chance to take his effigy home at the end of filming . |
| 8 | ‘ Seeing through a glass darkly ’ , he once told an ecumenical committee , ‘ is not the same thing as an ecumenical fog. , After the war he began to travel to meetings as a consultant . |
| 9 | We can account for what he was doing with his time , but this is not the same thing as explaining how or why the tone of voice — that vigour , that distinctively Lewisian freshness and vitality — was so long in coming . |
| 10 | You know it when you experience it , but it is not the same thing as standards of living or GNP ; it is not quantifiable and not necessarily ‘ environmental ’ . |
| 11 | Yet getting talks started — whether between the Europeans and Iraq or , better still , the Americans and Iraq — is not the same thing as avoiding war . |
| 12 | And — because this is not the same thing — which aspects of life do we perceive as zero or nonzero sum ? |
| 13 | But survival is not the same thing as reproduction a d there is likely to be a trade-off . |
| 14 | It does not need great intelligence or ‘ professionalism ’ to realise that the dispersal of those kinds of books is not the same thing as clearing popular fiction . |
| 15 | What do you need ? ( which is not the same thing ! ) |
| 16 | Which is not the same thing as saying they do n't exist : the question remains open . |
| 17 | Indicating that all supervisory staff have a training responsibility is not the same thing as having a ‘ suitably augmented team ’ . |
| 18 | Self-confidence is not the same thing as intellectual certainty or moral infallibility . |
| 19 | A lively memory is not the same thing as a colourful retelling of spiritual experiences . |
| 20 | The ruling class may be an alliance of classes and the maintenance of hegemony is not the same thing as a monolithic dominant ideology . |
| 21 | With regard to the former , Arnauld argued against Malebranche that ‘ objective presence ’ to a mind does not require ‘ local presence ’ , and that for something to be objectively present to a mind is not the same thing as for it to be causally active on it . |
| 22 | As Kipling complained , they hardly noticed it when it was there ; and since its conversion into a Commonwealth of Nations in 1947 , with Indian independence , they have hardly noticed that a Commonwealth is not the same thing . |
| 23 | A ‘ practical grasp ’ of physical properties is not the same thing as the ability to articulate and reason about them by way of verbal symbols . |
| 24 | She dislikes clinical method because ‘ years of clinical experience is not the same thing as empirical evidence ’ ( 1973 : 232 , 234 ) . |
| 25 | Pluralist critics complained that panels of interviewees are not asked to specify the areas in which powerful leaders are reputed to be influential , that the reputational method is heavily dependent upon the selections of panels , and that a reputation for being powerful is not the same thing as direct evidence of success in getting your way over other people 's opposition ( Dahl , 1958 ; Polsby , 1980 ) . |
| 26 | The convention most often mistaken for logic is explicitness , which , he shows , is not the same thing at all . |
| 27 | But introducing an abstract noun is not the same thing as providing an explanation . |
| 28 | Such a cleric has long recognised that his personal belief is not the same thing as historical evidence , and he has effected some kind of personal reconciliation between the two — a reconciliation which , to a greater or lesser degree , manages to accommodate both . |
| 29 | A ‘ global ’ product is not the same thing as a ‘ global ’ firm or a ‘ global ’ industry . |
| 30 | Commenting on Gladstone 's support for the scheme , the News of the World said : " picking up type is not the same thing as picking up needles and stitches : the mental and physical labour demanded in the compositors " room is infinitely greater than anything that has yet been required of women " . |