Example sentences of "not the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shame and penance are not the same things . |
| 2 | But self-confidence in the sense of psychological certitude is not the same things as absolute certainty in the philosophical sense . |
| 3 | I know there 's an attitude at home — men are people but women are only women — but that 's not the same things as putting your women in purdah . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It is not the same thing . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not the same thing down there . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Perceptions are not the same thing as knowledge , but they are what the holder of the perception believes to be knowledge . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Remember that quotations and estimates are not the same thing , and that a low estimate can very easily turn into a high bill . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Why can not the same thing be said about extension ? |
| 16 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 17 | And — because this is not the same thing — which aspects of life do we perceive as zero or nonzero sum ? |
| 18 | But survival is not the same thing as reproduction a d there is likely to be a trade-off . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | What do you need ? ( which is not the same thing ! ) |
| 21 | Which is not the same thing as saying they do n't exist : the question remains open . |
| 22 | Indicating that all supervisory staff have a training responsibility is not the same thing as having a ‘ suitably augmented team ’ . |
| 23 | Self-confidence is not the same thing as intellectual certainty or moral infallibility . |
| 24 | A lively memory is not the same thing as a colourful retelling of spiritual experiences . |
| 25 | ‘ But it 's not the same thing . |
| 26 | The ruling class may be an alliance of classes and the maintenance of hegemony is not the same thing as a monolithic dominant ideology . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | That 's not the same thing . |
| 29 | Not the same thing . |
| 30 | 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 . |