Example sentences of "[noun] [be] the [det] person " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't keep pretending that Viola and Eleanor were the same person because Viola 's photo was signed . |
| 2 | This proposition , admittedly , is not without its difficulties when the sovereign is the same person in two or more realms where her ministers may tender divergent or opposing advice on the same subject ; but so far the possibilities involved in these different capacities of the sovereign have not caused embarrassment in practice . |
| 3 | Not only had he robbed that particular S&L just three days earlier , but the teller at the window was the same person who had handed him the cash at gunpoint . |
| 4 | For Locke , it was argued , the absurdity would follow that while the general is the same person as the officer , and he the same as the boy , the general is not the same person as the boy . |
| 5 | Part of understanding the sentence is to decide that the person questioned in the questioning event is the same person as the seer in the seeing event . |
| 6 | For Jane 's mother , and for everyone else who knew her , it was difficult to appreciate that this traumatised golfer was the same person as the one to whom , in amateur days , everything had come so easily . |