Example sentences of "[adj] people [modal v] [verb] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory 2 people could pick the same team , but unlikely . |
| 2 | We know that if , in the introduction of the council tax , the Government inflict on the British people what they did with the poll tax — the £10 billion that it has cost us , the increase in VAT to manipulate it and the innumerable changes to make it more acceptable — local government and the British people will face the same sort of inadequacies and misery . |
| 3 | No two old people will react the same way , so no standard procedure can be recommended . |
| 4 | ‘ I think quite a few people will vote the same as their parents and this is Hummersknott , ’ she said . |
| 5 | He has done a lot of thinking and he has concluded the labour party is finished for him and I think a lot more people will do the same . |
| 6 | I think one or two other people may have the same comment to make if that was the case erm |
| 7 | Two people may analyse the same thing in a different way . |
| 8 | Two people can hear the same news report , yet one ‘ hears ’ that the world is full of conflict and hatred , and another hears of the many global efforts towards love , peace and harmony . |
| 9 | Two people can read the same magazine article and one of them will get far more information out of it than the other . |
| 10 | Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table . |
| 11 | One difference is this : Sartre 's aim is the philosophical one of redescribing the location of bodily sensations in a way which does not lend itself to such misunderstandings as that two people could feel the same pain as they can see the same table . |
| 12 | But erm you know o , I mean it 's , there 's so much analysis and what not , I mean I I think most , most people must do the same a lot of them have made their minds up and the ones who have n't either do n't really care |