Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [prep] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 Contrasted in this way it seems improbable that madness and creativity could spring from the same source .
2 After a few months of doing this several times each day and night , most of us could plot at the same speed as the information came in on the teleprinter .
3 The proportion responding that they thought they could trust the United Sates " a great deal " was 62% ( up from 45% in 1975 ) , a figure not matched by any other country : the closest was Norway , which 37% thought they could trust to the same extent .
4 Alternatively , some bicycles have an odometer on them which you could use in the same way .
5 At peak capacity some 56 people — seven teams of eight surgical staff — could work at the same time .
6 It could work in the same way as the present ‘ attendance allowance ’ , a payment made to severely disabled people which they can then choose how to spend on their care .
7 ‘ We could play the US again tonight , it could go along the same pattern and we would end up winning 4–2 or 5–2 because of the chances we created . ’
8 Right , now what I 'd like to do now is ask you for some of your , some names of friends of yours who , who I could go through the same process with them and , and establish their financial security for them too .
9 ‘ In the old days we could rely on the same spectators attending match after match , whatever the weather or the results .
10 With uncertain optimism , the report concludes that ‘ if this were to be achieved , we consider that prosperity , once created , could spread in the same way as blight has done in the past ’ .
11 As the burial mound was of the period known as the Bronze Age , the horn and the mound could belong to the same period .
12 Eye-witnesses believe it could come from the same family of beasts as Ogopogo , Tazama and Pohengamok , who all dwelt in lakes throughout British Columbia .
13 He also said that he thought he and Strach could play in the same team .
14 In fact , within a week I could sit on the same chair as the dog with Dawn on my fist .
15 You would n't think lightning could strike in the same place twice would you ?
16 Unless she could dispose of the same modern means of transport and production , the same machinery and armaments , Russia could not hope to uphold her political independence .
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