Example sentences of "same thing as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A ‘ practical grasp ’ of physical properties is not the same thing as the ability to articulate and reason about them by way of verbal symbols . |
2 | These sediments are only slightly compactible , but with others ( particularly muds ) it must be realised that the thickness of new sediment is not the same thing as the thickness of the rock that results from it . |
3 | They they tended to say the same thing as the government , erm but recently Tory motions , in this council , have started to say the opposite of the government f for reasons which remain obscure to me and this is just another example . |
4 | One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine which asserts , that the true electric current on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend , is not the same thing as the current of conduction , but that the time variation of the electric displacement must be taken into account in estimating the total movement of electricity . |
5 | The maximisation of social wealth is not however the same thing as the maximisation of total or average welfare . |
6 | They were doing the same thing as the driver ants , and for the same reasons . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | It is in a way saying the same thing as the preface to The Reason of Church Government . |
9 | Under the scheme holders of government bonds could choose to exchange them for South Sea Company shares , and the government would pay interest on these bonds to the South Sea Company at a lower rate than it paid previously — the South Sea Company was doing much the same thing as the East India Company , providing the government with a loan at a reduced rate of interest in exchange for overseas trading privileges . |
10 | that refusal of the creditor 's claim comes to the same thing as the extinction of the debt ? |
11 | I 've talked about miocenia gravis ; there is it 's rarer cousin , the syndrome , which sometimes associates with carcinoma of the lung , and we have shown that this too is an auto-immune disease in which the lung cancer seems to precipitate the immune system into making an antibody against it , the tumour , and the because the tumour has on its surface the same thing as the nerve terminal , the antibody also binds to the nerve terminal and causes trouble there . |
12 | That was n't the same thing as the maiden ? |
13 | ( Note : the Next Steps Initiative , which is primarily concerned with the establishment of Executive Agencies , is not the same thing as the establishment of trading funds . |
14 | 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 . |