Example sentences of "can [verb] the same [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ? |
| 4 | And design your dinner so that everyone can eat the same thing and enjoy it — with the recipes below , even the greediest red meat-and-potatoes man will feel he 's had his fill ! |
| 5 | Professor Garrow 's studies show that a 10-stone woman who has just lost 20lb can eat the same amount — without gaining weight — as a 10-stone woman who has always weighed that amount . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Or we can describe the same action using a PASSIVE sentence , in which the subject of the sentence ( italicised below ) is acted upon ( rather than acting ) . |
| 8 | Not only do I suppose that the desk in my study exists when neither I nor anyone else is there to perceive it , I suppose that I , and everyone else , can perceive the same desk . |
| 9 | Everybody can watch the same design on the screen and see styling improvements and changes as they are made . |
| 10 | if you are studying in a group , you can repeat the same process with your fellow students . |
| 11 | They can give the same information as the text , giving the reader two opportunities of gaining clear understanding . |
| 12 | c ) There are several ways in which apparently different ALT constructs can give the same effect . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Aerial surveys can achieve the same thing , although the maps so obtained cover a smaller area . |
| 16 | Assume , purely for ease of calculation and exposition here , that the rival can achieve the same learning rate , that demand is not price-sensitive and that , if the rival enters the market , sales will be divided equally between the two rival companies . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Of course if you have a mouse installed you can achieve the same result by simply pointing and clicking on the menu option . |
| 19 | I can feel the same sort of thing going on in my head . |
| 20 | Later you can do the same thing when walking along or when sitting in a car ( but only if you are the passenger please — do n't try it while driving ! ) |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One may say that , if Alexander improved the way he used himself , then anyone can do the same thing . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They are all female and since they too are also reproductively sufficient unto themselves , they can do the same thing as their mother even before they have left her body . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | You can do the same thing for any of the others , so however man many sides you want , |
| 28 | In a sense you can do the same thing , of course , with erm elementary particles like neutrons and protons , but the process of interpretation is much more complicated . |
| 29 | You can do the same sort of thing with the ‘ personnel ’ information , though here you have to make rather more assumptions . |
| 30 | You can do the same sort of thing with your refrigerator at home . |