Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] have [vb pp] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Had Leeds United not removed Stuttgart , Germany 's coach might have experienced the same difficulties as Roxburgh . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Yesterday Capt Roy Beaumont , Loganair 's operations director , said that although the plane involved was an ATP , the down draught could have had the same effect on any aircraft coming in to land . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Surely any woman would have reacted the same way on discovering a supposed admirer was in reality only after her possessions ? |
| 8 | I 'm sure your father would have said the same . ’ |
| 9 | Any traveller would have taken the same route as I did . |
| 10 | The newsreader would have achieved the same effect if he had suddenly broke into song . |
| 11 | Even a government with substantial majority support would have encountered the same opposition . |
| 12 | But any neighbouring vet would have done the same . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In theory an excise on home production of tobacco could have produced the same revenue as a tax on imports but in practice it took a strong and efficient government to levy an excise , while almost any government could find private businessmen who would pay a lump sum of cash in return for the right to collect the official rates of customs duties at a port . |
| 15 | 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 . |