Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [art] same [noun] " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 There were a few who would have asked the same question , looking at Joan Rush , senior project officer with the fund , a prime mover in the group which has beavered away at the subject to bring it into the mainstream of policy and practice .
33 Surely any woman would have reacted the same way on discovering a supposed admirer was in reality only after her possessions ?
34 ‘ 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 .
35 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 ?
36 So perhaps they would have made the same mistakes as well. , He believes his most serious mistake was wanting to get things done in a hurry .
37 Even a government with substantial majority support would have encountered the same opposition .
38 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 .
39 All the same , I doubt very much that when I was in a comparable situation I would have had the same faith and determination that Tom did .
40 ‘ A little thing could have set him on his way any time these past three years , and it would have had the same ending . ’
41 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 . ’
42 And major social reforms — the establishment of free trade unions or the redistribution of noble land — would have had the same effect .
43 Any traveller would have taken the same route as I did .
44 ‘ I 'd had one drink but I would have taken the same stand if I had n't had a drink at all .
45 Mr Sands stressed that he would have taken the same view of any party who laid down such a set of pre-conditions .
46 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 .
47 ‘ We would have taken the same action and taken a prosecution if it had been any other film which had been shown without the consent of the licence-holder . ’
48 Unless today 's firms learn to manage for profit , not just for the revenue generated by the next deal , it is a fair bet that in fewer years than that many of them will have gone the same way .
49 You may think this is way over the top , but by the time he gets there the reader , if he believes ( as I do ) in Keneally 's veracity , will have experienced the same emotion .
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