Example sentences of "can [verb] the [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No chemical solution — cream , liquid or powder — can give the same gleaming hygienic result on your tiles , your taps , bath , shower , toilet and bidet . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ The five Scottish ‘ Techs ’ have shown over and over again that they can achieve the same high academic standards as our eight universities . |
| 3 | You can feel the same oppressive sense of place at Culloden , where great numbers of Scots were massacred , and I felt a similar sense of sadness and grief as I walked through Glencoe where the Macdonalds were treacherously murdered by the Campbells . |
| 4 | You can use the many different shapes and designs shown in this book for miniature work , as well as larger pictures . |
| 5 | You can see the same flat style in the writings of Ian Baruma , Chris petit , James Fenton . |
| 6 | But you can see the same ideological contours behind it , in that here are a body of professionals who are trying to shore up a crumbling system . |
| 7 | I must urge you to support our resolutions so that Herts County Council can join the many other Council and other organisation that are pressing the government to change it 's mind . |
| 8 | Different theories can have the same observational consequences . |
| 9 | Since FSP theorists do not take sentence position as the only criterion for assigning thematic status to clause elements , it follows that two alternative formulations of the same message can have the same thematic analysis . |
| 10 | All forms of charity can have the same unfortunate , unintentional impact . |
| 11 | It can reduce your heating bills , since your home will waste less heat , and you can maintain the same internal temperatures without burning so much fuel . |
| 12 | This means that different firms can adopt the same formal organisation trappings but still find themselves managing particular tasks in quite different ways . |
| 13 | But if one walks inland across the salt marsh or sabkha and digs a hole , one can find the same algal mat buried beneath wind-blown sand with layers of anhydrite and gypsum . |