Problem: S1: After the takeover of the Nazi regime , he was forced to retire in 1936 as a citizen of evangelical faith with Jewish ancestors .
S2: Following the takeover of the Nazi regime in 1936 , he was forced to withdraw as a citizen of evangelical faith with Jewish ancestors .

Do S1 & S2 convey the same information?

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A: yes

Problem: (1) The Mid Wales Hospital , originally the Brecon and Radnor Joint Counties Lunatic Asylum was a psychiatric hospital in Talgarth , Wales .
(2) The Talgarth , Wales , originally the Lunatic Asylum of the Brecon and the Radnor Joint Counties , was a psychiatric hospital in the Mid Wales Hospital .

Do (1) and (2) mean the same thing?

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A: no

Please check if these have the same meaning.
Brigadier General Abram Duryee commanded the 107th New York Infantry Regiment and the 97th , 104th and 105th Pennsylvania Infantry .
Brigadier General Abram Duryee had commanded the 97th , 104th and 105th New York Infantry Regiments and the 107th Pennsylvania Infantry .
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Answer: no

Problem: The membership of this group gives a still impressive but incomplete picture of the breadth of actors that influence global environmental governance .
Membership of this group provides a still incomplete but impressive picture of the breadth of the actors that influence global environmental policy .
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A: no

The real basis of the flower is that lenses can never perfectly focus in the physical world .
The real basis of bloom is that , in the physical world , lenses can never focus perfectly .

Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other? OPTIONS:
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yes

Problem: S1: The association of the human eye with mirrors was so strong that stylized eyes were often used in Teotihuacan - art as a substitute for the face of a mirror .
S2: The association of the stylized eye with mirrors was so strong that in the Teotihuacan art , human eyes were often used as a substitute for the face of a mirror .

Do S1 & S2 convey the same information?

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no