Example sentences of "[verb] that he could [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They suggest that he could become the country 's national president in any strongly reformist administration that might emerge . |
| 2 | They suggest that he could become the country 's national president in any strongly reformist administration that might emerge from the current upheaval . |
| 3 | It pleased me immeasurably to know that he could sense the difference now , the promise of fulfilment , which would be the sweeter , it seemed to me , for having been so long deferred . |
| 4 | In 1919 he joined the staff of the London Homoeopathic Hospital as pathologist and bacteriologist , and found that he could use the homoeopathic method of potentization to prepare his vaccines which he was then able to give by mouth instead of by injection . |
| 5 | He rang Davidson to confirm that he could make the eight a. m. appointment . |
| 6 | It was won because Labour was the party of high taxation , because the Conservative Party presented an alternative , and because most electors neither admired Mr Kinnock nor believed that he could deliver the promises that he was making . |
| 7 | They wo n't accept with Charles Wychwood that ‘ everything is copied ’ , and wo n't accept his opinion of Chatterton : ‘ Thomas Chatterton believed that he could explain the entire material and spiritual world in terms of imitation and forgery , and so sure was he of his own genius that he allowed it to flourish under other names . ’ |
| 8 | The deceased added that he could sign the document anywhere . |
| 9 | It was said that he could estimate the structure of the whole creature from just a single bone . |
| 10 | He noticed that he could predict the direction to the food source form the dance . |
| 11 | Vesman developed this and showed that he could explain the temperature dependence of muon + dd fusion if there is a rather loosely bound state in a complex molecular system involving three deuterons where the nuclei were encircled partly by electrons and partly by muons . |
| 12 | Eighteen years later Jean Genet commented that he could see the revolution could n't work after a visit to the Odeon , occupied by students and workers . |
| 13 | I 've also heard Councillor er being , er er quoted in the press , as saying that he could find the money for capital schemes . |
| 14 | Adam Swannson , the senior partner of the haulage firm , confirmed these deliveries would be made on time , provided that he could subcontract the Belfast delivery . |
| 15 | Mingled with the brimstone smell of burned powder he fancied that he could smell the perfume of roses from the Residency garden , pruned this year by musket fire . |
| 16 | The amnesty is particularly good news for Houghton , who picked up his second yellow card of the qualifying tournament in Malta last month and feared that he could miss the opening game in Italy . |
| 17 | The amnesty is particularly good news for Houghton , who picked up his second yellow card of the qualifying tournament in Malta last month and feared that he could miss the opening game in Italy . |
| 18 | Buster felt that he could make the vehicle — which was a very dismal thing to look at — a real sort of Bonny and Clyde affair . |
| 19 | We thus had a perfect relationship : each of us felt that he could patronize the other . |
| 20 | The bacon-curing business was for sale for £l00,000 so assuming that he could finance the remainder he engaged an accountant to check over the books of the existing business and report back to him . |
| 21 | Even Denis Healey knew that he could make the pips squeak only after the mortgage has been paid . |
| 22 | And now , for the first time , he thought that he could smell the North Sea , that potent but half-illusory tang evoking nostalgic memories of childhood holidays , of solitary adolescent walks as he struggled with his first poems , of his aunt 's tall figure at his side , binoculars round her neck , striding towards the haunts of her beloved birds . |
| 23 | Through the beating of the rain he thought that he could hear the Eel , feet scrabbling on the gravel path . |
| 24 | He did not expect that he would have to go to war over the Holy Places , but if he was called upon to do so , he thought that he could produce the men , guns and money he would need for victory . |
| 25 | Mr Lawson 's mistake was that when formal monetary targeting broke down because of the impossibility of finding any measure of money which bore an accurate relationship with nominal demand , he thought that he could use the exchange rate as an informal target . |
| 26 | It would be miles yet , probably another day of travelling , before they reached safer country , and even if fitzAlan stubbornly insisted that he could travel the horse would n't go forever . |
| 27 | Anyway , Jacob said that he could do the job better and more quickly if he paced himself by singing a lively hymn called ‘ Keep in Step with the Master ’ . |
| 28 | Huy wished that he could unravel the message in his eyes Might there have been a challenge there ? |
| 29 | And when she returned he would imagine that he could see the glow of the skin , the satisfied smile of remembered happiness , could almost smell that she had been making love . |