Example sentences of "can [vb infin] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a man believes in a different god , or even if he uses a different ritual for worshipping the same god , blind faith can decree that he should die — on the cross , at the stake , skewered on a Crusader 's sword , shot in a Beirut street , or blown up in a bar in Belfast . |
| 2 | A dog may well think that his master is at the door : but unless a dog masters a language it is hard to see how he can think that he is thinking that his master is at the door . |
| 3 | I knew Moore for many years and can testify that he was a master of lifelike representation . |
| 4 | When you are playing a game of Monopoly with someone you may not be able to predict his strategy or the roll of the dice but you can predict that he will stick to the rules of the game . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ If Robbo does play , then we can expect that he will ‘ go ’ before the end of the match . |
| 6 | If the subject prefers to look at one stimulus rather than another we can assume that he has detected a difference between them . |
| 7 | This topic is too recent for there to be many guidelines available but for a particular topic the designer can assume that he need not be inhibited in allowing his imagination to run to many kinds of novel solutions . |
| 8 | ‘ I think we can ensure that he does . |
| 9 | ‘ A member shall — ( a ) establish and maintain rules and procedures ( ‘ compliance procedures ’ ) by reference to which each officer , employee , company representative and appointed representative of the member can ensure that he complies with these Rules and the Principles in his dealings with investors ; … |
| 10 | ‘ A member shall ( a ) establish and maintain rules and procedures … by reference to which each officer , employee , company representative and appointed representative of the member can ensure that he complies with these Rules and the Principles in his dealings with investors ; … |
| 11 | The presumption of ownership which follows from A's or X 's possession may , for instance , be rebutted by a rival claimant , Y , who can show that he or his predecessor was in possession , and that A or X wrongfully dispossessed him . |
| 12 | Qualified privilege may be claimed if the member of the council making the statement about a person can show that he made it without malice and in pursuit of a public duty . |
| 13 | Thus where , for example , the defendant owns a chain of stores he can rely upon the acts of a store manager provided that the defendant can show that he ( the defendant ) took all reasonable precautions to avoid the commission of the offence . |
| 14 | I can confirm that he is supported by a competent staff , and has never actually been convicted of being foreign or of committing serial buttock fondling in his office or elsewhere . |
| 15 | The law therefore sets a point ( although an extremely unclear one ) at which the citizen is not entitled to resist further , and must be expected to endure the indignity or invasion , seeking relief subsequently when he can substantiate that he has been the victim of a police mistake . |
| 16 | That 's what my , I say my father bred er pigs and supplied the Ministry of Food and I can remember that he had a contract to collect all the erm waste from schools in the area . |
| 17 | Now if the executors of the will delay paying out then the husband can claim that he has a legal right to his money . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , Saddam can claim that he alone has resisted the greatest military power in the world plus allies for longer than any Arab states ever resisted Israel , or anybody . |
| 19 | But you can believe that he is a truthful man . |
| 20 | Even I can see that he should have been implacable . ’ |
| 21 | Particularly in the music-hall connections of his plays ( which later became their West End connections ) we can see that he was attempting to do this in his own creative work at the time . |
| 22 | That way we can see that he gets the credit . |
| 23 | I mean , I can see that he upset you about something . ’ |
| 24 | Equally , voluntary members of branch and Federation committees , many with far longer service to the Association than their tutor-organiser , can see that he remains true to the traditions of the WEA . |
| 25 | We can see that he had two views of what constitutes a ‘ law ’ , or perhaps we should say that he had two views as to how ‘ laws ’ manifest themselves . |
| 26 | ’ N'Grabbit depressed a button on the unit she held in her hand and a new graphic merged with the first ‘ … you can see that he has been somewhat over-confident in his predictions . |
| 27 | But we can see that he had something more to work on than the Roman thirst for gold . |
| 28 | You look at Big Tom and you can see that he has a life and a heart and a world . |
| 29 | ‘ You can see that he did n't give himself the time to finish it . |
| 30 | ‘ Than to go for strychnine — that 's what it looks like to me , and you can see that he had a rough passage out . |