Example sentences of "he can [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The believer can be misled about the nature of service , and because these roles are very limited , he can easily become a spectator . |
| 2 | He can also make a point of talking to Mr Yeltsin and other republican leaders to offer them moral support . |
| 3 | He can not make the dog or the duck swim across . |
| 4 | But the hag keeps up her terrifying noise , her writhing and screaming , to pin down the youth 's attention , stop him from pursuing Ariel , and she succeeds , he can not bear the sound of her hissing and shrieking another moment . |
| 5 | If he can not lift the leg unaided , he may move it by clasping his hands together just below the knee , holding the shin bone firmly , and using his hands to lift the leg up , shifting his weight sideways towards his unaffected side as he does so . |
| 6 | As well as Macca plays , he can not influence the side as much as Strach . |
| 7 | A man , Wolff argues , can forfeit his autonomy by not taking the responsibility on himself ; by , for example , obeying commands blindly ; but he can not abnegate the responsibility which the possibility of choice confers upon him . |
| 8 | He can not stay the distance and his breathing is now difficult . ’ |
| 9 | He did speak to Murray on the phone but says he can not clear the mystery until he has a chance to study the report in detail . |
| 10 | He says he can not waste the day whilst you converse with a madman . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He can not deliver the Latino vote , ’ says Angelo Falcon , head of a non-profit think-tank on Puerto Rican politics , ‘ but he will help to tip it . ’ |
| 12 | His ‘ robust realism ’ results from the fact that he can not attain the standpoint of transcendental reflection from which he can notice what we take to be idealist tendencies in his work . |
| 13 | A sudden and miraculous plague breaks out in the camp , and though Aaron , as priest , runs into the midst of the people with ritual of atonement , he can not stop the pestilence before 14,700 lie dead . |
| 14 | ROGER BLACK yesterday revealed he will quit athletics if he can not end the injury nightmare which shattered his Olympic dream . |
| 15 | Far from calling himself a god he admits his own inadequacies — he can not rebuild the dome , he can not claim to have fed on honey-dew and drunk the Milk of paradise . |
| 16 | He can not reverse the rule of Common Law ; he can not interfere — at least directly — with proceedings in the Common Law Court ; he can not say that the legal owner is not the legal owner . |
| 17 | And he can not leave the cell without handcuffs and shackles . |
| 18 | He can not form an idea of extension as such , which is ‘ neither line , surface , nor solid , nor has any figure or magnitude but is an idea entirely prescinded from all these ’ . |
| 19 | Every type of food is readily available and preparation and cooking have never been easier ; and if he can not spare the time , convenience foods reduce the time required for shopping and preparation to the bare minimum . |
| 20 | He can not hide the pride , though , that he has in following Hare at Leicester . |
| 21 | ‘ Nothing can change the fatwa because the leader of the revolution is now dead and he can not change the verdict . |
| 22 | committee of actually emphasize , what Mr , Mr is actually saying is the ideas and the , the , the suggestions of this particular route will be incorporated in this report and should go before this committee and he can not give a preview of those ideas to anybody else |
| 23 | Foucault , as we have seen , is also criticized on the grounds that he can not give a cause for the shifts he describes , but this criticism itself begs the question insofar as it assumes a certain kind of history , which itself presupposes that there was a cause in the sense of a single uniform causality , rather than a disconnectedness in the scientific mode . |
| 24 | In relation to his indecisive character , Macbeth decides that he can not commit the murder of Duncan , stating firmly , ‘ We will proceed no further in this business . ’ |
| 25 | He can not handle the back pass … never has done . |
| 26 | Poetry Professor Peter Levi , Oxford University , says it is a well written poem , but not a famous one and he can not identify the author . |
| 27 | He has sought treatment on a number of occasions and has come to the conclusion that he can not break the habit and that what he needs and wants is a maintenance regime , preferably on heroin — something that the medical profession in Wirral does not want to give him . |
| 28 | It is important , you remember , for a bird to pull off his own ticks , but he can not reach the top of his own head and needs a companion to do that for him . |
| 29 | The truth is that the new chairman of British Coal has told the Secretary of State that he can not privatise the coal industry in its present state and that the Rothschild report may understate what is really in store for the coal industry . |
| 30 | Do n't undermine the patient 's confidence by accusing him of not trying when he can not fulfil a task . |