Example sentences of "he can [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun] " 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 | ‘ They know that while he is abroad he can not answer the questions about what has happened to the promised recovery . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ROGER BLACK yesterday revealed he will quit athletics if he can not end the injury nightmare which shattered his Olympic dream . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And he can not leave the cell without handcuffs and shackles . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | He can not avoid the buck landing there , even if he continues to refuse to accept it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He can not hide the pride , though , that he has in following Hare at Leicester . |
| 23 | ‘ Nothing can change the fatwa because the leader of the revolution is now dead and he can not change the verdict . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | He can not handle the back pass … never has done . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |