Example sentences of "is not the same " 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 | ‘ It is not the same thing . |
| 3 | And , contrary to Hume 's contention , being very dimly in consciousness is not the same as being thought of . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | The myth that a man makes has transformations according as he sees himself as hero or villain , as young or old , but it is essentially the same myth ; Tom Jones is not the same person , but he is the same myth as Squire Western ; Midshipman Easy is part of the same myth ; Falstaff is elevated above the myth to dwell on Olympus , more than a national character . |
| 9 | Camp is not the same as gender inversion , but it often connects with it , and with good reason . |
| 10 | But in towns , even in small towns it is not the same . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | Investment bankers come calling , the insurer says , but ‘ their ultimate goal is not the same as ours ’ . |
| 16 | For Locke , it was argued , the absurdity would follow that while the general is the same person as the officer , and he the same as the boy , the general is not the same person as the boy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This is not the same form of heroism as those who put themselves at risk for others . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | That which is filmed is not the same as that which is broadcast . |
| 26 | And — because this is not the same thing — which aspects of life do we perceive as zero or nonzero sum ? |
| 27 | But survival is not the same thing as reproduction a d there is likely to be a trade-off . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | What do you need ? ( which is not the same thing ! ) |
| 30 | This is not the same situation as in those areas of the law where there are medical concepts which are not in fact accepted without further refinement by courts ; the notion of what constitutes therapy is such an issue , as are , for example , the concepts of insanity and paternity . |