Example sentences of "[noun] could [adv] [verb] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the captives could not speak the same language , reasoned the slavers , they were unlikely to organize effective opposition . |
| 2 | In his summing up Lord Griffiths said that if a family had lost its right to priority treatment through intentional homelessness , the parents could not achieve the same result ‘ through the back door ’ by applying in the name of a dependent child . |
| 3 | Peirce could probably allow the same : his position rests upon the belief that there is a logical guarantee that induction will take us to the truth in the long run , but that our confidence in the short-run efficacy of the method is simply an ‘ acritical ’ commonsense certainty which may be susceptible to scientific explanation . |
| 4 | Railcards , which currently give discounts off standard and reduced-rate fares to the young , the old and families — at least nationally accepted versions could also share the same fate , as could the combined rail-bus-underground Travel card in London . |
| 5 | Thus if more bonds and fewer Treasury bills were issued , the banks could still obtain the same amount of bills as before ( by paying a higher price ) , with other buyers getting less . |
| 6 | The break between ordinary and scientific knowledge seems to us so clear that these two types of knowledge could not have the same philosophy . |
| 7 | Building society and bank deposit investors could hardly say the same . |
| 8 | He may have concluded after he turned 40 that his career could never have the same impetus . |
| 9 | Mr Hague could usefully ask the same question about the Esk Valley line , part of which runs at the opposite end of his constituency . |
| 10 | Shame the British weather could n't say the same . |