Example sentences of "that he can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or are we getting him ones that he can kick to pieces ? |
| 2 | Reiser asks subjects to visualise themselves as spectators watching the events on a television screen ; the subject is told that he can stop and replay the video tape at will . |
| 3 | There is no longer any dichotomy of truth and lies that he can manipulate from midway between the audience and the other characters . |
| 4 | Apart from some general points , listed here ( as well as scattered elsewhere in the book where especially relevant , such as in Chapter 10 , Starting Your Own Business ) , giving tax planning advice is the job for a specialist ; and moreover one who is fully conversant with your financial affairs , so that he can advise in the light of your own particular circumstances . |
| 5 | As Peter Conrad has put it , ’ Karajan doubles as director so that he can reproduce musical motifs on-stage . ’ |
| 6 | The loutish Eddie meanwhile fancies his chances with ‘ Frigid ’ Bridgit and makes a bet with his pals that he can score by the end of the evening . |
| 7 | The layout and organisation of the classroom should enable the visually handicapped pupil to develop a facility to understand and use the equipment and material in it ‘ so that he can feel at ease in the setting , and can respond freely and accurately about what he is doing ’ . |
| 8 | His fingers are splayed out so that he can feel the very pulse of hundreds of megabytes of information flowing into him . |
| 9 | Participant observation , then , is an attempt to put both observer and observed on the same side by making the former a member of the group so that he can experience what they experience and work within their frame of reference . |
| 10 | Graham finished in a time of 10hrs 07mins 40secs , not bad considering the terror canoe section , but this season he is convinced that he can knock as much as an hour off that effort with more intense training and kinder weather . |
| 11 | The patient may be placed on his stomach on the floor , and taught how to come up onto all fours , and then to kneel up , so that he can walk on his knees to a chair . |
| 12 | ‘ But really I just want him to know that he 's got to do a bit of work , that he can walk , that he can get around . ’ |
| 13 | He proved that he can create a great ready-to-wear collection , strong in its own statement , not just a shallow imitation of his couture triumphs . |
| 14 | A three-times World speedway champion has been taking motorbike lessons … so that he can pass his test . |
| 15 | Each market participant is therefore aware at all times that he can expect to carry out his plans only if these plans do in fact offer others the best opportunity available , as far as they know . |
| 16 | Where , however , the entry of the goods was inevitable , not only is there no liability for trespass on the part of their owner , but the view that he can retake them seems to be right , even if there is no direct decision to that effect . |
| 17 | I do n't think there is any way that he can realise what I am going through . |
| 18 | The result of his planning so far is what he calls ‘ the R&D Initiative for the NHS ’ — something that he recognises must be visible and simple so that he can present it ‘ succinctly ’ to boardrooms and to nonspecialist health professionals , such as managers . |
| 19 | Jonathan Aitken has been taken off the back benches and made minister of state for defence , in the hope that he can continue to rally the Euro-sceptics as he did over Maastricht . |
| 20 | He might also calculate that he can continue economic reform without a terminal confrontation with parliament . |
| 21 | Wyatt 's articulation of the necessity to stage his identity , even within the ostensible private world of a sonnet , so that he can continue to function within the social world is reiterated by writers whose focus is more distinctly on the public sphere . |
| 22 | Also at this event the Champion of Oulton series continues with Graham Riley of Rochdale out to prove that he can stay on top of the contest and improve on his third place last year . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | Any error on her part , however small , and he may remind her that he can go back to Bangladesh and marry again . |
| 26 | He does n't believe in Arnold Bros but he likes to think Arnold Bros exists just so that he can go on not believing in him . |
| 27 | It is truly said that he can go to bed at night with a clear sky as far as Home Affairs are concerned and wake up the next morning with a major crisis on his hands . |
| 28 | In the first issue , Owen finds out he has diabetes and we follow him through his first visit to the doctor and then at the hospital , as he learns how to manage diabetes so that he can go on living a normal life . |
| 29 | For the most part it does not come from wealthy people such as the hon. Member for Oldham , West and other hon. Members — The hon. Gentleman seems to think that he can go to his constituents and say , ’ Woe is me , I only earn £30,000 a year as a Member of Parliament . ’ |
| 30 | Where where you know that he can go out to the market for a popular metric bearing and and slaughter the old price |