Example sentences of "not the same as " in BNC.

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1 To say this is not the same as complaining of his acknowledgement that poor people can have a good time .
2 ‘ So Dr Iverson is a successful doctor , ’ murmured Henry Tyler ( which he knew was not the same as being a good one . )
3 And , contrary to Hume 's contention , being very dimly in consciousness is not the same as being thought of .
4 Edward Aveling 's interests in the signs of class were not the same as Eleanor 's .
5 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 .
6 Camp is not the same as gender inversion , but it often connects with it , and with good reason .
7 Not the same as what ? ’
8 Not the same as … as … you know … . ’
9 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 .
10 But takeovers are not the same as bankruptcies .
11 Investment bankers come calling , the insurer says , but ‘ their ultimate goal is not the same as ours ’ .
12 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 .
13 As it was , the Church was simply acting to preserve its interests and these were not the same as the interests of the Party .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 They 're not the same as the ones from Noo Joisey , says Mom .
19 ‘ Real ’ science is often not the same as in textbooks .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 It 's not the same as dying in your own bed , is it ? ’
25 That which is filmed is not the same as that which is broadcast .
26 Wealth was not to be flaunted , although as the children grew older they became aware that their father 's circumstances were not the same as those of brother officers who lived only on their Navy pay .
27 It also made respectable the unfamiliar doctrine of ‘ positive discrimination ’ — going beyond weak doctrines of equality ( perceived as the removal of artificial obstacles ) , to strong doctrines ( based on the conviction that the socially disadvantaged should receive more than , not the same as , their more fortunate contemporaries ) .
28 The crowd cheered us in of course , but it 's not the same as coming down the last as the winner for sure .
29 Furthermore , as regards the former suggestion , a new institution analogous to , but not the same as , marriage , would lack the very special connotations inextricably involved in the marriage union of two people who feel strongly for each other and desire to bear witness to this feeling to the world .
30 There is no need to remind you that health is not the same as medical care .
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