Example sentences of "the same thing as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But self-confidence in the sense of psychological certitude is not the same things as absolute certainty in the philosophical sense . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I am still doing exactly the same things as I did before the operation but at a slower pace . |
| 4 | Historically the computational approach has been most actively pursued by engineers eager to build machines that can do the same things as humans . |
| 5 | It does not matter if you do not have exactly the same things as are shown in the drawing ; alter the design to suit what you have . |
| 6 | In 1946 in Milan , Werner met a young woman who was looking at the same things as he was . |
| 7 | The probability of correctly recalling a junction appears to be related to many of the same things as subjective risk — traffic seen , time spent at the junction , objective and estimated risk . |
| 8 | As has already been observed by the Dominican , Conrad Pepler : we need not to labour the fact that Hilton is writing the same things as St John of the Cross , … |
| 9 | Just wan na call them the same things as you 're used to . |
| 10 | And erm , they recorded different things , but Mat but also they recorded the same things as well |
| 11 | And she wants to do the same things as us . |
| 12 | To ask them , and equally ( or even more ) to wave them away absentmindedly like circling insects , is to greet the novel , to respond to its personality which is the same thing as the tonal area colonized by the novelist for his present purpose . |
| 13 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Perceptions are not the same thing as knowledge , but they are what the holder of the perception believes to be knowledge . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | The Governor-General had not , by acting like the sovereign on the advice of the spokesmen of a majority in an elected assembly , become the same thing as the sovereign . |
| 20 | has experienced the same thing as we all have . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The SSC also apparently got differing accounts of the project 's finances ; the participants in L* did not always say the same thing as the management . |
| 25 | But this one , standing before me in her underwear , was immediately possessable , if possession means the same thing as physical penetration , or if possession is something you measure by its financial cost , and if possession is acknowledged to be temporary , a leasehold , an object you lose or abandon . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We can see the whole world here , the Empire , that 's the same thing as the whole world , and you 'll profit by it . |
| 28 | They take for granted , that if Christianity were true , the light of it must have been more general , and the evidence of it more satisfactory … if any of these persons are , upon the whole , in doubt concerning the truth of Christianity ; their behaviour seems owing to their taking for granted , through strange inattention , that such doubting is , in a manner , the same thing as being certain against it . |
| 29 | ‘ Much the same thing as we used to do . |
| 30 | But survival is not the same thing as reproduction a d there is likely to be a trade-off . |