Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [modal v] [vb infin] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory 2 people could pick the same team , but unlikely . |
| 2 | Two objects may reflect the same wavelengths into our eyes yet be seen as having different colours . |
| 3 | Two methods may have the same selection of structure , vocabulary and meaning , yet differ in the order in which they teach it . |
| 4 | As a consequence , although the amount of , say , blue light reflected by the red area may have gone up , so will the amount of blue light reflected by the green area As a consequence , the ratio of blue light in the two areas will remain the same , as will the ratio of green light in the two areas and the ratio of red light . |
| 5 | A pink milk pudding or blancmange is simple in the sense that , if we slice it in two , the two portions will have the same internal constitution : a blancmange is homogeneous . |
| 6 | Two people may analyse the same thing in a different way . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Two people can read the same magazine article and one of them will get far more information out of it than the other . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For surely it is compatible with VP , as expressed , that two sentences should have the same observational consequences but differ in meaning . |
| 12 | Thus two students could attain the same marks , but the way in which the marks were interpreted depended on the perception held for each student . |
| 13 | ‘ Provision is , however , made for the possibility that at any time the two airports may have the same owner . |