Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [art] same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus two students could attain the same marks , but the way in which the marks were interpreted depended on the perception held for each student . |
| 2 | We could make the same kind of comment about the lyrics : the predictable rhymes ; the clichéd phrases ( ‘ South of the Border ’ , ‘ stars above ’ , ‘ my thoughts stray ’ , ‘ she was a picture ’ , and so on ) . |
| 3 | We could make the same kind of case for clusters of compatible genes building the different parts of eyes , ears , noses , walking limbs , all the cooperating parts of an animal 's body . |
| 4 | While one could make the same use of filters for waveband selection , only Band 7 has been used , since this is the one of greatest interest for the current application . |
| 5 | Penny 's range is very impressive , and there can be few scholars who could cover the same material with such authority . |
| 6 | I quickly found one who agreed to supply me with a dozen apples for threepence as long as I could guarantee the same order every day for the next month . |
| 7 | The whole job had to be finished so they could catch the same ferry back . |
| 8 | The coroner then asked Mrs James if she could recognise the same man in court . |
| 9 | They could speak the same language , but there was almost nothing else in their past that they 'd shared . |
| 10 | But he acknowledged that , for example , education could achieve the same objectives . |
| 11 | However , he could achieve the same result by giving less attention to each patient . |
| 12 | He planned to pursue integrative schemes as a private citizen and it was thought doubtful whether he could achieve the same effect in that capacity . |
| 13 | If you are talking about more general studies or if you did a non-vocational course at college or university you should show how this demonstrates that you are capable of becoming interested in a wide range of subjects and could bring the same enthusiasm to your work . |
| 14 | One could do the same thing with ‘ unicorn ’ , which has sense but no verifiable reference . |
| 15 | I could do the same thing with rich people I suppose , I could paint yuppies . |
| 16 | I could do the same thing with rich people I suppose , I could paint yuppies . |
| 17 | It was not only wool that behaved in this manner , some synthetics could do the same thing . |
| 18 | From over George 's shoulder stared the portrait of a general whose handling of an attack in the South African war had caused so many casualties to his own brigade that he had immediately been promoted away to see if he could do the same thing with divisions and corps . |
| 19 | Being able to tile or overlap windows within applications is a nice convenience but have you ever wished that you could do the same thing with separate applications on the desktop ? |
| 20 | Theoretically , bats could do the same thing , but dolphins seem more likely candidates because they are in general more social . |
| 21 | Another consequence of the labelling of Impressionism and other groups by critics was that some artists naturally decided that they themselves could do the same job better than the critics . |
| 22 | Ultraviolet radiation could do the same job as the electrical discharge in their laboratory . |
| 23 | They said they could do the same cake but at a cost of £103 , ’ she said . |
| 24 | This meant that country could keep on running during the war , and , proving that they could do the same jobs as men , women gave themselves an enormous boost in the push for votes . |
| 25 | I could feel the same horror burning through Tom and Terry — the impotence , the rage , the fear and shame at doing nothing for our friend . |
| 26 | Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table . |
| 27 | One difference is this : Sartre 's aim is the philosophical one of redescribing the location of bodily sensations in a way which does not lend itself to such misunderstandings as that two people could feel the same pain as they can see the same table . |
| 28 | But Creggan could not escape , for he remembered Minch 's command to try ant help her , and anyway he could feel the same longings she felt . |
| 29 | Exactly like , I could see the same patterns — faces , almost — in the damage . |
| 30 | Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table . |