Example sentences of "have [vb pp] to the same " in BNC.

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1 Williams attempts to show that if we examined the commonplace idea of equality of opportunity thoroughly , we find ourselves carried down a sort of ‘ slippery slope ’ towards insisting that only if everybody has succeeded to the same degree can we be sure that there has been genuine equality of opportunity .
2 More recent authority has come to the same conclusion : see Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent [ 1965 ] 1 QB 623 per Pearson LJ and Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 per Megaw LJ .
3 It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people .
4 Ben had been nine when he 'd gone to the same school , he reminded her .
5 It is plain that if the judge had been appraised of all these matters now before the court , he would have come to the same conclusion as we have , namely that the necessary intention had not been proved on the part of the appellants .
6 I would myself have come to the same conclusion as that which the deputy judge expressed [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 514 , 528 :
7 I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction .
8 It seems that he would have come to the same conclusion regarding the implication of such control .
9 Thus Chambers explains the similarities between Old and New World monkeys as due to life having advanced to the same level of organization from quite independent origins of life in the two hemispheres ( Hodge , 1972 ) .
10 If oil-drillers can exploit organic molecules to manipulate the flow and drillability of mud , there is no reason why cumulative selection should not have led to the same kind of exploitation by self-replicating minerals .
11 Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now .
12 I went to see Eric to tell him about this conversation and found that he had come to the same conclusion .
13 ‘ And it looks as if Ivor had come to the same conclusion .
14 Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion .
15 It seems that Kerr J at first instance had come to the same conclusion as Lord Denning via a public policy route .
16 Loretta and Bridget had belonged to the same women 's group several years before , a group which Tracey had nicknamed ‘ the coven ’ .
17 In their different ways both Tom and Emilia had alluded to the same experience ; and before that experience she was utterly virgin .
18 I have come to the same conclusion as many people who find that they have a potentially fatal disease .
19 But , as stated in Anderson v. The Queen , at p. 108 , per Lord Guest ‘ in cases of murder great care must be taken to see that there has been no miscarriage of justice ’ and the test , a strict one , has been described in Woolmington v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1935 ] A.C. 462 , 482–483 , per Viscount Sankey L.C. as whether ‘ if the jury had been properly directed they would have inevitably have come to the same conclusion ’ and in Stirland v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1944 ] A.C. 315 , 312 , per Viscount Simon L.C. , as involving ‘ a situation where a reasonable jury , after being properly directed , would , on the evidence properly admissible , without doubt convict . ’
20 I have come to the same conclusion that some a method of appointment is in fact right and it makes sense .
21 These have led to the same stereotyping of characters as happens in classical ballet .
22 They may , therefore , form in valleys and basins , especially in areas of calcareous rocks , and theoretically should be nearer the margins of the basins as they crystallise earlier than gypsum before the lakes have shrunk to the same degree .
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