Example sentences of "not [adv] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a cash underpinning is not entirely the same thing as a vendor placing because it will not be known exactly how many shares will be the subject of a sale ; that will depend on the number of acceptances of the cash underwritten alternative . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Also , how potential credit users imagine that granters will behave — not necessarily the same thing as how they actually will behave — has an effect . |
| 4 | Compulsive overworking ( workaholism ) or overachieving ( which is not necessarily the same thing at all ) are conditions that lead to much debate . |
| 5 | The two are not necessarily the same thing at all . |
| 6 | In addition , it has been pointed out ( Erades 1950 : 123 ) that it is not exactly the same thing to ask someone Will you help me get these letters addressed ? as it is to ask Will you help me to get these letters addressed ? |
| 7 | A standard variety or form is not conceptually the same thing as a prestige variety or form ( on prestige , see J. Milroy , 1989 ) : the main linguistic symptom of standardization is invariance . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's not really the same thing , I suppose . |
| 9 | In fact we will be shown extracts from Gloucester v Bath once the programme gets going : but that is not quite the same thing . |
| 10 | ‘ Not quite the same thing , ’ Marx said , mildly and without rancour , as if half-truths and no-truths were part of his life , which they were . |
| 11 | ‘ Not quite the same thing , ’ said Larry , |
| 12 | He was in love with her , hopelessly in love ; he still loved her deeply , although he realised that was not quite the same thing . |
| 13 | Yes , that 's not quite the same thing as fairly traded though . |
| 14 | But he had been on the Winchester K — not quite the same thing , of course . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not quite the same thing . ’ |
| 16 | Not quite the same thing ! |
| 17 | However , having a wife and protecting the traditional family are not quite the same thing , and the system is really an indiscriminate subsidy to all married men . |
| 18 | It 's not quite the same thing |
| 19 | The maximisation of social wealth is not however the same thing as the maximisation of total or average welfare . |