Example sentences of "was [adv] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just the same thing all over again , except that this time it took twice as long because of the interpreter . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So far he 'd got sympathetic countries to ‘ deplore ’ the malai act of aggression , which was not the same thing as condemning it , he said . |
| 4 | It was mentioned in this section that the staff had a commitment to combat racism in any manifestation but it was acknowledged that this was not the same thing as multicultural education . |
| 5 | Hell was being without God , I thought , but I said nothing , just stared instead at the white wash of cabin light on the rushing water , and I wondered why some people could take cocaine and just walk away from it , while others ended up in hell , or in a peep-show which was probably the same thing . |
| 6 | They had never seen anything like it before — only statues of course , with a well-placed fig leaf , but that was n't the same thing . |
| 7 | It simply was n't the same thing as an investment proposal from a friend . |
| 8 | That was n't the same thing as the maiden ? |
| 9 | That , and trying to recruit him to the parents ' Association committee ( which was almost the same thing , as the most active women members were divorcees ) . |