Example sentences of "[that] he can [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waterloo Boy , placed for the third year in succession , was three-and-a-half lengths adrift in third , and it is highly unlikely that he can reverse the form . |
| 2 | Although the perfume is rapidly diluted by the air , the male 's antennae are so sensitive that he can detect a female from as far as 5 kilometres away . |
| 3 | I do not know whether he does not understand the measure or whether he thinks that he can discredit the idea by associating it with the poll tax . |
| 4 | Mm yes I told Paul that he can bring a lady up at Christmas-time . |
| 5 | With reference to subsections 5(4) and ( 5 ) the consequence of the buyer being allowed to treat the sale as fraudulent is that he can bring an action for damages and that he can rescind the contract , i.e. refuse to pay or take delivery or , if he has paid , demand the return of the price . |
| 6 | To date chief executive Papows has managed to stop Cognos going into a terminal decline , but has yet to prove that he can lead the company into a higher growth pattern . |
| 7 | If a burglar breaks in through a window , he will want to open the door so that he can carry the television out to his vehicle . |
| 8 | Will my right hon. Friend do all that he can to open a dialogue with representatives of landlords and planning authorities so that they can encourage and enable retailers to erect something to protect their property ? |
| 9 | In such uses , therefore , the speaker mentally situates a real event in the field of the merely possible so that he can express a judgement , not on the reality of the happening , but on the appropriateness of its occurrence ( p. 219 ) : judging whether something real is appropriate for existence or not involves imagining what things would be like without its existence , and so leads to taking a mental position before its existence where both existence and non-existence are seen as possible . |
| 10 | Agnew knows that he has to prove to manager Kenny Dalglish not only that he can make a comeback but also that he can do his stuff at the highest level . |
| 11 | As regards the real estate of the deceased , it is settled by the end of the thirteenth century that he can make no will , except where there is a local custom to that effect . |
| 12 | I 'm sure Morrissey is arrogant enough to believe that he can reclaim the Union Jack and even the entire skinhead movement for his own ‘ little England ’ fantasies and subtly satiric purposes . |
| 13 | We know that Jack is full of himself as he shows off about the fact that he can sing the top C♯ in a scale , which is very impractical . |
| 14 | If the Conservatives are the largest single party , should he hang on as Prime Minister in the hope that he can do a deal with another party ? |
| 15 | ‘ He needs to get fit and to improve his sharpness but it 's up to him to show that he can do a job for us , ’ said Flynn . |
| 16 | we 'd rather get it done properly , erm , but erm , this that came yesterday morning , he reckons it , that he can do the whole of the bedroom , look there 's been an accident , I 've got to tell you |
| 17 | ‘ At Maastricht John Major proved that he can do the business for us in Europe , ’ says Jim . |
| 18 | Well , it did go erm but Tony Mould who in actual fact is the promoter at erm Wolverhampton with Chris van Stratten , has gone into Longeaton. erm So we can only hope that he can do the job and keep them there . |
| 19 | If BW approval can be arranged , I would be grateful if this could be communicated to David Oldham of the Green Belt Trust , so that he can arrange the funding . |
| 20 | With reference to subsections 5(4) and ( 5 ) the consequence of the buyer being allowed to treat the sale as fraudulent is that he can bring an action for damages and that he can rescind the contract , i.e. refuse to pay or take delivery or , if he has paid , demand the return of the price . |
| 21 | He will need to be informed about new strategic departures and their effects upon the covariance between corporate and market-index returns so that he can alter the portfolio held if the risk-return mix is not the one desired ; but corporate diversification to manage total risk is not required by the shareholder . |
| 22 | Alternatively , the purchaser may decide that he can operate the business more efficiently than the vendor either by a general reorganisation of job responsibilities or by his existing staff taking on a greater workload . |
| 23 | The laibon believes that he can pinpoint the beginning of his troubles to this lion hunt . |
| 24 | The partisan feels that he can trust the stranger , although that trust is tested in future weeks . |
| 25 | The answer is that he can maintain the action if at the time of the defendant 's act he had ( a ) ownership and possession of the goods , or ( b ) possession of them ; or ( c ) an immediate right to possess them , but without either ownership or actual possession . |
| 26 | Joyce 's material supposedly unfolds in the dreaming mind of a Dublin publican ; the story O'Brien 's narrator tells concerns a publican who operates his imagination altogether more systematically , locking up his fictional characters ‘ so that he can keep an eye on them and see that there is no boozing ’ ( O'Brien 1939 and 1975 : 35 ) . |
| 27 | He tries to confine his searching to the area around the nest , presumably so that he can keep an eye on his partner . |
| 28 | He had wanted to make the £1,000 target but hopes that he can raise the balance when he runs in the Luton and Brussels half marathons — and possibly the New York marathon — later this year . |
| 29 | In short , having identified the needs and problems of the buyer , the presentation provides the opportunity for the salesperson to convince the buyer that he can supply the solution . |
| 30 | that cuts that he can see every side of your |