Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] [verb] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if we were to change the linear arrangement , the three words presented in association would serve to indicate the same process and the same roles of the participants : |
| 2 | Daedalus would like to do the same thing for human senses , and DREADCO chemists are now at work on his ‘ contrast-exalting spectacles ’ or ‘ Cexspex ’ ( Regd. ) make of a cunning tinted glass . |
| 3 | Where it is clear that the contract-breaker would have taken the same steps anyway the inducement is not an effective cause of the loss . |
| 4 | Mr Edmonds said all companies would have to pay the same base rate so they could not complain of unfair competition . |
| 5 | In other words , the universe would have to behave the same if one replaced particles by antiparticles , took the mirror image , and also reversed the direction of time . |
| 6 | After all she was her friend and she was in no doubt that had the positions been reversed Maggie would have done the same . |
| 7 | ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’ |
| 8 | In this respect the CNAA 's central concerns would have remained the same whatever policy governments formulated , so long as there were ‘ non-university ’ institutions seeking approval for their courses under the terms of the CNAA 's Charter . |
| 9 | They are also relatively stable across contexts : for instance , a topless swim-suit would seem to exemplify the same sense of topless as ( a ) , and a topless barmaid the same as ( b ) . |
| 10 | ‘ In a subsequent editorial the newspaper fiercely attacked the CPS decision … and questioned whether the CPS would have made the same decision if the woman had been a black girl caught in exactly the same way on Broadwater Farm . |
| 11 | Ten years earlier no Company official would have done much about this , and even in 1757 not many officials would have done the same as Clive : he joined the conspiracy against Siraj-ud-Daula , led his little army of 3,000 men against the Bengal army of 60,000 , committed his troops beyond hope of withdrawal by crossing the Hughli ( the lesser Ganges ) , and on 23 June 1757 held them steady at the battle of Plassey . |
| 12 | Many set the odds on Rank achieving his ambitions very low indeed , seemingly believing that , as Eric Ambler was later to remark , ‘ a policy of selling British cars to America with their steering wheels on the right would have had the same chance of success . ’ |
| 13 | First , is it right that a remedy should be refused because the respondent would have made the same decision even if it had not acted illegally ? |
| 14 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 15 | Dyed-in-the-wool fabric-winged 65 hp-engined Ercoupe owners would appear to think the same about the metal Alon model in comparison to their own , if the Coupe Capers newsletter is anything to go by ! |
| 16 | ( Laidler 1987 , p. 345 ) ( One argument for the UK fully joining the European Monetary System is that in order to maintain our par the UK would have to have the same ( low ) inflation rate as West Germany . ) |
| 17 | To make assurance doubly sure-and also to begin a move in the direction of greater picturability — let us now see how Schrödinger would have obtained the same result . |
| 18 | Surely any woman would have reacted the same way on discovering a supposed admirer was in reality only after her possessions ? |
| 19 | I 'm sure your father would have said the same . ’ |
| 20 | Any traveller would have taken the same route as I did . |
| 21 | The newsreader would have achieved the same effect if he had suddenly broke into song . |
| 22 | Even a government with substantial majority support would have encountered the same opposition . |
| 23 | But any neighbouring vet would have done the same . ’ |
| 24 | Lord Taylor , the Lord Chief Justice , sitting with Mr Justice Judge and Mr Justice Hidden , said they could not be sure that the original trial jury would have reached the same verdict if it had heard evidence which had since come to light . |
| 25 | It eventually emerged , after dogged questioning in parliament , that the PSA would have done the same job for £1,500 . |
| 26 | Where which probably the parents when I was doing midwifery would have said the same thing but there was nothing they could do about it . |
| 27 | Structure and local land would have to follow the same criteria . |
| 28 | By that they mean that multiplying them together in either order would have to give the same result . |
| 29 | ‘ Of course , Mowbray would have done the same , but then what happened ? |
| 30 | Even so , many succeeded in establishing a relationship similar to a heterosexual marriage , and Hanns Ebensten believes that ‘ had he not been a homosexual , John would have had the same occasional hours of despair and misery , and maybe had a succession of failing marriages and affairs . |