Example sentences of "that he can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that he can mind that . |
| 2 | That he neither really sees nor is really torn , that he can not enter the world of either comedy or tragedy , neither O brave new world that hath such people in it , nor Dark dark dark beneath the blaze of noon . |
| 3 | Mr Murray now wants to give away the Smugglers ' Kitchen so that he can channel his efforts into another property — the Dartmoor Inn at Bovey Tracey , also in Devon . |
| 4 | At the same time he should check that he can reach the full rudder and stick movements without undue stretching , and that cushions or other objects are not limiting the movements of the controls . |
| 5 | The aggressive fighter is often weak on defence and generally prefers just to smother your attack so that he can proceed with his own . |
| 6 | But in his 3–6 6–4 2–6 6–1 6–4 victory , one had to admit that Courier has character and a burning conviction that he can beat anyone . |
| 7 | fellow peasants carry Colas into Mother Simone 's kitchen hidden in sheaves of corn so that he can meet Lise . |
| 8 | The whole performance is based on the classical vocabulary of steps shorn of every convention so that he can go ‘ swifter than an arrow from an archer 's bow ’ . |
| 9 | I have in mind How To Read , a disastrously misnamed little treatise , since its real subject is How to Write , and it is addressed to what Pound called ( with the engagingly dated Edwardian elegance that he never wholly shed ) ‘ the neophyte ’ — that is to say , to the young American writer who wants to know as soon as possible , though at the expense of considerable exertion which he is prepared for , how to assemble his kit of tools for the job in hand and others that he can dimly foresee . |
| 10 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 11 | ‘ The trouble with T S , ’ says one long-time acquaintance , ‘ is that he can not bring himself to confide in anybody . ’ |
| 12 | If Pollard 's architecture is so disposable and flippant that it is odd to call him a ‘ patron ’ , Palumbo 's patronage is so single-minded that he can hardly be called a developer . |
| 13 | It is the task of Lakhdar Ibrahimi , the Arab League envoy , to struggle through a tangle of sub-issues in the hope that he can persuade the Lebanese to renegotiate France 's political legacy and the policies that began when General Henri Gouraud , who became the French high commissioner of Lebanon in 1920 , stepped ashore . |
| 14 | Parry has turned down an offer to play in the World Matchplay and with it , an automatic £12,500 reward , and has also decided to pull out of a couple of rich Japanese tournaments , so that he can play again next week in the BMW International . |
| 15 | In Nightwalker , set to a medley of Duke Ellington , Hall shows that he can dovetail a strong variety of jazz elements without looking derivative , and the men in particular pounce on his choreography with eagerness and panache . |
| 16 | Sources also pointed to the swift response of troops loyal to General Noriega , especially the 7th Infantry , as evidence that he can still count on important parts of the military to back him up . |
| 17 | He did not mention that one definition of a composer 's talent is that he can write music that compels an audience 's attention . |
| 18 | The philosophy is devastatingly simple , Charlton recognising that he can not hope to improve players technically in the short time available to him before matches . |
| 19 | If he is to persuade his colleagues that he can win for the party , he will need to seize every available chance for exposure over the next two , three , or even four years . |
| 20 | If Mr Kinnock can lead his party this far , it seems at least possible that he can now turn himself outward , away from the party , and begin to project himself as a potential national leader . |
| 21 | Callinicos appears to think that he can detect ‘ aesthetic merit ’ from the position given to him by his politics ; politics , writ large , as embodying an ethics and a philosophy , is the active force . |
| 22 | Any error on her part , however small , and he may remind her that he can go back to Bangladesh and marry again . |
| 23 | An Ammunition Technical Officer ( ATO ) donning his equipment on the site of a suspected Improvised explosive Device ( IED ) — Army terminology for a terrorist bomb — so that he can make a close inspection of the device if necessary |
| 24 | He particularly delights in riding near the front of the field so that he can watch the hounds at work — something that fascinates him . |
| 25 | Brian Rowe has relinquished his role as Eastern Counties Field Officer so that he can concentrate on developing the Salt Cellar as a joint churches enterprise in Sudbury . |
| 26 | He wants us to be with Him , so that He can show us His Love . |
| 27 | The company has decided to remove editorial responsibilities from the deputy editor , Mr Richard Lambert , so that he can tackle the RSI outbreak . |
| 28 | And even more amazing that he can still squeeze through chimneys and central heating air vents in tower blocks . |
| 29 | Beyond the fringe Nicky Mason , who has been on the fringes of England 's best men 's team for 30 years , showed during England 's outstanding 5-1 victory that he can still … |
| 30 | That gives him the space to make long-term bets , but also deprives him of advice against short-sightedness : borrowing sums that he can service only so long as the good times roll . |