Example sentences of "can [verb] the same " 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 , 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | You can make the same arguments about certain stories at home . |
| 5 | By contrast the larger class-D animals , living on grasslands where rainfall varies , are less selective and so long as they do not crop the grass too close many animals can cover the same foraging area in a short time . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The most startling illustration of how things can stay the same while they change is found in one of Stein-am-Rhein 's many excellent restaurants . |
| 9 | Just bear with me a moment we can stay the same as we on subject specifics at the moment , we do n't have to change that , I 'm just trying to think in the light of national curriculum and what 's happening |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Everybody can watch the same design on the screen and see styling improvements and changes as they are made . |
| 14 | if you are studying in a group , you can repeat the same process with your fellow students . |
| 15 | They can give the same information as the text , giving the reader two opportunities of gaining clear understanding . |
| 16 | No chemical solution — cream , liquid or powder — can give the same gleaming hygienic result on your tiles , your taps , bath , shower , toilet and bidet . |
| 17 | c ) There are several ways in which apparently different ALT constructs can give the same effect . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Our commitment to adopt the Social Charter should remain a priority objective so that employees in our country can achieve the same rights and opportunities as their Community counterparts . ’ |
| 20 | Aerial surveys can achieve the same thing , although the maps so obtained cover a smaller area . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Of course if you have a mouse installed you can achieve the same result by simply pointing and clicking on the menu option . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I can feel the same sort of thing going on in my head . |
| 28 | As to honest Partridge , he meant no wrong , for he is so bold a mountaineer , he can go anywhere that a sheep can ; and I dare say thinks every person can do the same . ’ |
| 29 | Just as you can remove sulphur from power station emissions so you can do the same with carbon dioxide . |
| 30 | ‘ Hope I can do the same for you some day . ’ |