Example sentences of "[noun] can [verb] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did not however imply that recovery would follow in every case where a mistake had been shown to exist : ‘ If the defendant can show that the payment was made in settlement of an honest claim , or that he has changed his position as a result of the enrichment , then restitution will be denied . ’ |
| 2 | For a Part B mark , no injunction or other relief is available to a plaintiff if the defendant can show that the use complained of is not likely to deceive or cause confusion or taken as indicating a connection in the course of trade between the goods and the person having the right to use the mark ( section 5 ) . |
| 3 | It follows that if a contractor can demonstrate that the resources available and those intended for use on site would enable the works to be finished early , the contractor would have good grounds for claiming reimbursement of additional costs if he or she was thwarted by the client 's delay . |
| 4 | But even the most mercenary of foreign firms grows a little queasier about trading with a regime which shoots dead its citizens , and then tries to score popularity points by offering convict labour to foreign factories ; and even the most unreconstructed optimist can see that the resurgence of hard-line Marxists in the Peking power structure is likely to militate against further free-market reforms . |
| 5 | The nature of the benefit which the employer is said to have derived from a particular invention is readily ascertainable if the employee can show that the employer is in receipt of royalty payments from licensees who have been permitted to develop , manufacture and market the patented article or process . |
| 6 | If the hon. Lady or Puffin Books can show that the use of the puffin symbol contravenes the text that I quoted from the 1986 voluntary agreement , without being bound by court procedures and legal niceties and technicalities , we have a system deliberately designed to be sufficiently flexible to allow action to be taken and new barriers which will not be allowed to be broken . |
| 7 | The enabling act can provide that the instrument is to be laid before either or both Houses of Parliament . |
| 8 | Management can argue that the plant has been losing money : the unions can point to their ( not always peaceable ) acceptance of previous cost-cutting , which has reduced manning to just a few hundred from the thousands once employed there . |
| 9 | It is , however , possible for the seller to be exempted from liability under sections 13 to 15 of the Sale of Goods Act , but only in so far as the seller can show that the exemption clause satisfies the requirement of reasonableness , i.e. that it was a ‘ fair and reasonable one to be included having regard to circumstances which were , or ought reasonably to have been , known to or in the contemplation of the parties when the contract was made ’ ( section 11 ) . |
| 10 | Before submitting the package for approval , the manager of the package can ensure that the package is in an ‘ approvable ’ condition , ( in a similar way to running the scanner before attempting to enter a module ) . |
| 11 | Whilst the Purchaser can accept that the Memorandum has not been prepared with the precision of a legal document ( and accordingly the warranty may require some modification ) nevertheless the core of the information contained in it has been relied on by the Purchaser in agreeing to buy the Business and to the extent that it does not appear in any of the other information which is being warranted by the Vendor , it should be warranted in its own right . |
| 12 | Killing a sambar can mean that the tiger does not have to hunt again for up to a week . |
| 13 | The press may publish details of " spent " convictions , and if sued may successfully plead justification or fair comment , unless the plaintiff can show that the publication of this particular truth has been actuated by malice . |
| 14 | Speeches on such occasions , and reports of them , are protected by " qualified privilege " — a defence which will only fail if the plaintiff can show that the defendant was actuated by malice . |
| 15 | If , therefore , a person can prove that the statements or criticisms complained of went beyond reasonable or forceful debate and were defamatory ( as for example , a torrent of defamatory invective ) , and were influenced by indirect or ulterior motives , he might well be justified in issuing a writ . |
| 16 | The position I have tried to adopt is that whilst the atheist must demand clarity , the theist can argue that the nature of his or her task necessitates a use of language that is bound to be criticised as unusual , although it can not be allowed to be contradictory . |
| 17 | However , if after all the reasonable steps have been taken your father can not be traced , a court can order that the divorce petition need not be sent to him . |
| 18 | However , if after all the reasonable steps have been taken your father can not be traced , a court can order that the divorce petition need not be sent to him . |
| 19 | There are only three solutions : the owners can decide that the pleasure of having a cat in the home is greater than the distress of living with scratched furniture , or some kind of covering that cats hate to scratch has to be put over the sides of the furniture , or the cats have to be trained not to strop the furniture with their claws . |
| 20 | Delays in notification can mean that the cause of the accident is never found , and disputes can arise as to whether or not the claim was in respect of an incident covered under the policy . |
| 21 | When you go into the bathroom the smell of urine can mean that the toilet is leaking into the surrounding floorboards : an expensive business to correct . |
| 22 | But the associative theory can predict that the mechanisms that normally produce acquired distinctiveness might fail to do so , or might even produce negative transfer with certain sorts of test task . |
| 23 | The student can understand that the discipline is not given in any absolute sense , but has been socially formed and reflects interests both of rival factions within the disciplinary culture and of the wider society . |
| 24 | I think that patients can see that the reforms are working — there are better clinic hours , with evening and out-of-hours clinics , and improvements in service and the patients ' environment . |
| 25 | The group can be asked to respond to what one individual has just said ; or it can focus discussion on one individual at a time ; or the counsellor can ensure that the group discusses general or shared problems , or that it links and compares different problems faced by individuals within the group . |
| 26 | In practice , unless the employer can show that the employee has copied or physically removed a list of names or the details of a process then it may be very difficult to establish that the knowledge of the employee is exclusively due to confidential information . |
| 27 | The SPRU researchers believe that the lack of quantitative information can mean that the research output of , say , a university department , is not taken sufficiently into account . |
| 28 | Too short a list means that the input words will quite often be missed , and too long a list can mean that the list of allowable candidate strings is vast , and will often contain words that most people would not recognise as English words . |
| 29 | Surely , however , there are lines to be drawn , and it is not only remarkable , but worrying , to find that someone in such a responsible position can argue that the tobacco industry provides a neutral form of sponsorship . |
| 30 | If the employer pays the salary but refuses the services of the worker and this refusal offends his/her personality ( e.g. , lowers his/her reputation amongst fellow workers , prevents his/her professional development etc. ) , the worker can claim that the employer be condemned to pay him/her compensation and/or to really employ him/her ; in the second case , the employer will also be condemned by the same judgement to a pecuniary sanction and to detention in case he does not employ the worker . |