Example sentences of "he can [verb] that the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 a proprietor can avoid the ordinary liability based on the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher if he can show that the water had escaped without his negligence .
2 Thus , by section 8 , the private seller can not exempt himself from liability for misrepresentation unless he can show that the exemption clause satisfies the requirement of reasonableness .
3 The fact that the employer 's turnover ( and ultimate viability ) is to a large extent periled on supply contracts entered into because of formal tying agreements or informal ‘ understandings ’ does not augur well for the employee 's prospects unless he can show that the patent influenced the customer to buy on the scale which he did .
4 There is , nowadays , little reason for the tenant to seek to incorporate an option to renew in his lease unless by reason of his bargaining strength he can secure that the rent payable under the new lease will be lower than that which would be fixed by the court on an application for a new tenancy under the 1954 Act .
5 Tracking along the trajectories he can establish that the electron which eventually fell onto this spot of the photographic plate was the one he called A whilst the one that collided with the gold atom was the one he had called B. Quantum mechanically ( that is to say , with the electrons of the real world ) this can not be done .
6 A counter-notice which must be served within 21 days after service of the Notice , should only be given where it is required that the party whose statement it is sought to admit , should be called as a witness , but there are witnesses who can not , or should not be called , that is if dead , beyond the seas , or unfit to attend , or who can not after reasonable diligence be identified , or can not reasonably be expected to have any recollection ; consequently in respect of all those persons , the opposing party is not entitled to serve a counter-notice requiring such person to be called unless he can contend that the person can , or should be called .
7 Faced with examples like this , the semanticist has traditionally taken one of two tacks : he can either hold that there are two distinct senses of the word and , which is thus simply ambiguous , or he can claim that the meanings of words are in general vague and protean and are influenced by collocational environments .
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