Example sentences of "not the [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not the illegal so we could n't stop them from delivering them . |
| 2 | It predicts that there will be 8.5 billion people in 2025 , and that the world 's population ( currently 5.3 billion ) is likely to double by the 2050s , not the 2090s as previously estimated . |
| 3 | Alright I can revise still in maths but it 's not the same cos when he was round here the other night he 's like in a way like the teacher . |
| 4 | It is not the same when you do not have to whisper to your companions and you can only dream of the carp as tiny dots sixty yards or more away . |
| 5 | But not the same when you divide , it goes a bit odd . |
| 6 | He 's not the same when he 's at work . |
| 7 | ‘ It is not the same if you know that what you are drinking has nothing in it . ’ |
| 8 | To say this is not the same as complaining of his acknowledgement that poor people can have a good time . |
| 9 | ‘ So Dr Iverson is a successful doctor , ’ murmured Henry Tyler ( which he knew was not the same as being a good one . ) |
| 10 | And , contrary to Hume 's contention , being very dimly in consciousness is not the same as being thought of . |
| 11 | Edward Aveling 's interests in the signs of class were not the same as Eleanor 's . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Camp is not the same as gender inversion , but it often connects with it , and with good reason . |
| 14 | ‘ Not the same as what ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Not the same as … as … you know … . ’ |
| 16 | This is not the same as ‘ force-feeding ’ doctrine ; one can sympathise with Jayne Greenwell 's reservations , but we should be careful what gets thrown out with the bathwater . |
| 17 | But takeovers are not the same as bankruptcies . |
| 18 | Investment bankers come calling , the insurer says , but ‘ their ultimate goal is not the same as ours ’ . |
| 19 | When we say that what we see is a mile away , we must mean that were we to move forward a mile , we would be ‘ affected with such and such ideas of touch ’ ; and so Berkeley concludes that the things we see are not the same as those we touch . |
| 20 | As it was , the Church was simply acting to preserve its interests and these were not the same as the interests of the Party . |
| 21 | Suicide , when someone decides to take their own life by one means or another , rather than waiting to die through illness or accident , is not the same as euthanasia which may be defined as assisted death and which is a subject beyond the scope of this book . |
| 22 | Solitary people often have a cat or dog as a companion too ; but it is not the same as having a companion of one 's own kind . |
| 23 | But reserve is not the same as contestation , and people linked by descent were bound by their opposition to others , had a solidarity based on common ownership and defence , which seemed stronger than day-today resentments arising from a father 's control of his sons . |
| 24 | There is considerable social mobility in Britain — see , for example , the careers of John Major , Neil Kinnock and the Archbishop of Canterbury — but mobility is not the same as equality . |
| 25 | They 're not the same as the ones from Noo Joisey , says Mom . |
| 26 | ‘ Real ’ science is often not the same as in textbooks . |
| 27 | Although the Commission found it ‘ disturbing ’ , it asserted that the damage was not the same as that seen abroad and it blamed the winter of 1983/4 . |
| 28 | The ‘ spoil-sport ’ is not the same as the false player , the cheat ; for the latter pretends to be playing the game and , on the face of it , still acknowledges the magic circle . |
| 29 | For instance , Susanne Langer , in most of her writing on Aesthetics has been concerned to establish that emotion expressed through Art is derived from but is not the same as that felt in real life . |
| 30 | It has been pointed out that the legal protection of children 's welfare is not the same as the conferment of rights on children , since it presupposes that welfare agencies , judges and even parents would have the right to take decisions on the child 's behalf . |