Example sentences of "can [vb infin] the same [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is probably highly unlikely that a firm which earns , say , 20 per cent from one productive opportunity can earn the same return from all other productive opportunities . |
| 2 | Now it so happens that we can make the same substitution of forms in an otherwise completely different sentence , producing an exactly parallel change of meaning : |
| 3 | You can make the same arguments about certain stories at home . |
| 4 | Now , some people take the view that replica guitars are always completely justified ; USA-made instruments are over-priced , they argue , and if a Far Eastern company can make the same product for half the money , then what 's the problem ? |
| 5 | With a pixel refresh rate of 320 million per second , SGI claims it can deliver the same amount of data to a screen in one second as appears in during a typical 30 second television advertisement . |
| 6 | Everybody can watch the same design on the screen and see styling improvements and changes as they are made . |
| 7 | if you are studying in a group , you can repeat the same process with your fellow students . |
| 8 | Critics of the idea argue that companies can achieve the same purpose by paying out good dividends , but Laing questions whether much of this money finds its way back into the community . |
| 9 | We think that the er residents of a new settlement will still look to York as the natural centre for employment , for er provision of most employment , retailing and entertainment , and if you compare it with something like er Easingwold , erm which is of a similar size , erm this has achieved a degree a degree of self containment and balance , but this has occurred through erm a long period of development and a gradual growth of erm social linkages and economic linkages , however , even with such erm a gradual growth erm it 's not got a high degree of self containment , erm recent developments in er transport and changes in lifestyle have reduced this even further , and it 's difficult to believe that er a proposal , such as a new settlement er which is explicitly intended to cater for the development needs of York , located only ten miles from York can achieve the same level of self containment . |
| 10 | Also , this method can achieve the same accuracy by using a best-few search which explores more alternatives during portions of the utterances where credibility is low . ’ |
| 11 | Of course if you have a mouse installed you can achieve the same result by simply pointing and clicking on the menu option . |
| 12 | I can feel the same sort of thing going on in my head . |
| 13 | We can other things however though , because we can do the same things for actual . |
| 14 | You can do the same thing on a computer file , deleting each phonetic entry and replacing it with the phonemic transcription or an orthographic one . |
| 15 | Just as it is possible for an athlete to train himself to run faster by gradually increasing his speed , you can do the same thing with your reading . |
| 16 | At the end of each week you can then add up your total time and compare your planned and achieved time to measure your progress ; and you can do the same thing at the end of 30 days . |
| 17 | You can do the same thing for any of the others , so however man many sides you want , |
| 18 | Since writing about this in New Scientist , I have received numerous letters from readers asking how they can do the same thing in Britain and Europe . |
| 19 | You can do the same sort of thing with the ‘ personnel ’ information , though here you have to make rather more assumptions . |
| 20 | You can do the same sort of thing with your refrigerator at home . |
| 21 | Because the athlete 's heart is so muscular it can pump the same amount of blood with 50 beats per minute that the average heart pumps with 75 beats . |
| 22 | It is agreed that an appropriate vehicle for the transport of the plaintiff in the future is a vehicle called a Nissan Serena , the plaintiff claims for a cost of conversion of such a vehicle at six thousand , two hundred pounds , it would need to be renewed of course from time to time and allowances made for that , the defendant says that a firm called can convert the same vehicle for less than the tenth of the price , six hundred pounds , Mr says that such advantages , if any , of the conversion for which the plaintiff claims are so minimal that it can not possibly be right to spend ten times the money on achieving them . |
| 23 | There is no real difficulty in accepting the functional equivalence of variants such as lt ] and [ ? ] if they can occupy the same position in a set of words ( such as the syllable final position in bat , pit , hot ) without replacement of one by the other altering the semantic form of any item . |
| 24 | Now that would do , that would do whether the , whether the knuckles were hurt or it was just a minor cut in the palm of the hand there , that would do and you can use the same type of bandage on the foot alright , so that 's if the hand was damaged , now supposing we did n't have the hand damaged , but we had instead a cut up here , okay , again clean it and if you clean it with lots of water always remember to dry off around the wound because bugs love a moist skin to grow in , dry the wound before you apply the dressing okay if you can , dry it off the best you can and then you 're going to place that over the cut , remember you want the pad to be long enough , big enough , okay , now she can hold this for you again , she can hold it above where the wound is and now when you bandage this one you always bandage from the narrow part to the fat part of the limb , you always bandage from the narrow to the fat , so you take the bandage down |
| 25 | The cells are distributed so that callers travelling through cells a fair distance apart can use the same frequencies without interfering with each other , making most use of the limited spectrum available . |
| 26 | The amazing thing about memory is that you can use the same hooks for a multitude of lists without ending up in confusion . |
| 27 | Hotel guests and staff can use the same keycard for many applications throughout the property . |
| 28 | One can trace the same development from conservative polyphony to polychoral music demanding instrumental co-operation for its full effect in the works of the other Venetians and Willaert pupils of the latter half of the century : Costanzo Porta ( c. 1529–1601 ) , Claudio Merulo ( 1533–1604 ) , Giovanni Croce ( c. 1557–1609 ) , and above all Andrea 's nephew Giovanni Gabrieli ( c. 1555–1612 ) . |
| 29 | If users think they can run the same applications on Solaris , Destiny and Open Desktop then they 'll buy a desktop Unix client . |
| 30 | Snacks can follow the same principle of low-fat , low-sugar eating as the main meals . |