Example sentences of "the same person " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 2 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 3 | Not only is this shock experienced in fieldwork , while one learns the ways of a new culture , but it is experienced even more disconcertingly when one returns to one 's own culture … two different worlds have met in the same person . |
| 4 | Something has got to give : all these italicized attributions can not be true of the same person at once . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The myth that a man makes has transformations according as he sees himself as hero or villain , as young or old , but it is essentially the same myth ; Tom Jones is not the same person , but he is the same myth as Squire Western ; Midshipman Easy is part of the same myth ; Falstaff is elevated above the myth to dwell on Olympus , more than a national character . |
| 7 | ‘ But I 'm not the same person . |
| 8 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
| 9 | According to Locke , however , the question is ‘ what makes the same person , and not whether it be the same identical substance , which always thinks in the same person , which in this case matters not at all ’ . |
| 10 | According to Locke , however , the question is ‘ what makes the same person , and not whether it be the same identical substance , which always thinks in the same person , which in this case matters not at all ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Acts of 1857 which established the probate and Divorce Courts provided that the ordinary judge of these courts might be the same person as the Admiralty judge . |
| 14 | He could n't keep pretending that Viola and Eleanor were the same person because Viola 's photo was signed . |
| 15 | This is like forensic science , where the more ‘ matches ’ one finds between two fingerprints , the greater the certainty that they belong to the same person . |
| 16 | — the most interesting thing he has to say is that sadism and masochism are always present in the same person : a masochist is a frustrated sadist , and a sadist is a frustrated masochist . ’ |
| 17 | If this was so , then ‘ Yahweh ’ , ‘ God the Father ’ and ‘ Allah ’ would all refer to the same God , in the way that ‘ The President ’ , ‘ George Bush ’ and ‘ Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces ’ all refer to the same person . |
| 18 | What appears clean to one person will not necessarily appear clean to another and , even to the same person , an operation where standards are constant may present a different picture on different days . |
| 19 | The first time I ever saw a skinhead haircut & Crombie on the same person was in 1978 or 9 . |
| 20 | He still seems to me to be the same person now as he was when we first started working with them . |
| 21 | This is so even if the alternative job offered involves a change in your terms of contract or is with an associated employer , such as another company which is controlled , in terms of shareholders ' voting power , by the same person or people who control the company that you work for . |
| 22 | I thought , as most people probably think once or twice a year , that I should never be the same person again . |
| 23 | Direct hand contact can transmit infection from one person to another or , in the same person , from one location to another . |
| 24 | The inside ‘ me ’ is the same person whether we are five or ninety-five . |
| 25 | It 's just the same person inside . |
| 26 | In the informal interview it is apparent that a great deal depends on the skill of the interviewer , and perhaps two interviewers might get different responses from the same person in interviews purporting to cover the same topics . |
| 27 | A team has a co-ordinator ( it may not always be the same person ) who adjusts the leadership style along a spectrum , from participative to autocratic , in the light of circumstances . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Even the same person reacts differently on different occasions , depending on how fit they are and on other circumstances at that time . |
| 30 | The adult who will finally emerge is different from the child , but still recognizably the same person you once knew and understood . |