Example sentences of "[conj] he can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This plea will succeed where he can show two things : ( i ) that he was radically mistaken about the nature or effect of the document ( ii ) that he was not careless in signing it , Saunders v. Anglian Building Society . |
| 2 | ‘ I think we should reinforce the fence with fine mesh , and we should give him somewhere to hide — a place inside his enclosure where he can feel safe . ’ |
| 3 | We do some in-house , and we 've also got an outside researcher called Norman Pickering who has a home laboratory where he can do just about anything … |
| 4 | The widower will receive many more invitations out to meals in other people 's homes in the early days too , and he will have the advantage of never having to feel trapped in the isolation of an empty house in the evenings ; for if his emotional condition after his wife 's death is reasonably steady and he feels the need of company , he can always stroll out to the local pub for a drink , where he can remain in complete control of the amount of conversation he wants , or can endure , and can head for home again just when he feels like it . |
| 5 | today where he can stay at our mum 's . |
| 6 | And it is becoming increasingly likely that the England starlet will be allowed to move on to another county where he can make a fresh start . |
| 7 | A different kind of style , and a different kind of rhetoric , is employed in passages where Dickens wants to move us with compassion : notably in Paul 's death scene , where he can afford to use simple syntax and vocabulary ( expressing the simple images of the child 's mind ) in the assurance that understatement will merely intensify the reader 's sympathy : [ 4 ] Paul had never risen from his little bed ( 1 ) . |
| 8 | Understandably , he is looking for a place where he can not be reached , A Retreat where he can enjoy an unearned or undeserved equilibrium . |
| 9 | A person who has been dispossessed may bring an action for ejectment where he can establish an immediate right to possession . |
| 10 | Everything goes as planned and I soon bully him into the landing net , and from there the hook is removed and he is slid into my big , knotless keepnet , where he can lie safe and recover while I try to catch him some company . |
| 11 | ‘ He likes us where he can see us , he says . ’ |
| 12 | He just wants to keep the goat tethered — ; here , where he can see it . |
| 13 | We met in a pub , some crepuscular burrow where Stuart is a regular little furry creature , where he can crouch happily in the reconstructed inglenook ( imitation Norman Shaw ) and quaff his ale as his yeoman forefathers have so quaffed since antiquity . |
| 14 | However , in general , where he can prevail , the buyer will wish to have an indemnity from his seller against all such third party claims and their consequences . |
| 15 | I am going to tell Roy Plumley 's successor where he can stick the one luxury he allowed us to bring . |
| 16 | He can , in relation to this or any other issue on the account , direct points of claim and points of defence ; or he can refer the issue to the taxing master . |
| 17 | Or he can remain silent except for nodding , smiling and liking his glass , allowing the bride to speak on their behalf , making due reference to him — my husband has asked me , etc . |
| 18 | This will necessitate a visit to the local newsagent for the papers and you will have to ask your new next door neighbour if she or he can give a note to the milkman for you or contact the local dairy yourself . |
| 19 | You may well know that the other person 's reaction is based on a tiny part of the situation but there is not much you or he can do about it . |
| 20 | A democracy … demands a dissemination of political understanding wide enough to make the people 's will in government an effective thing … the uninformed citizen … can be misled by the easy halftruth and the persuasive slogan ; or he can feel that understanding will always be beyond him and fall into that apathy which leaves everything to authority . |
| 21 | He can get down to the nitty gritty and fight inside or he can stand back and box . |
| 22 | He can sell out his holding at a profit to new investors or he can sit back and await the dividends on the investment . |
| 23 | This leaves the Energy Secretary , Mr John Wakeham , with two options : he can either agree to underwrite any cost escalations in nuclear handling costs after privatisation , or he can swallow his pride , and pull all nuclear plant out of the impending sale . |
| 24 | You might also try to use an edition which your reader can independently get hold of , so that she or he can check what you say . |
| 25 | A grievance results from a member of staff feeling she or he has been treated unfairly ; the governing body must establish a procedure as a means whereby she or he can seek redress . |
| 26 | He can either ‘ retire ’ to less active parts of the ground ( assuming he wishes to continue watching football ) or he can seek acceptance with the Town Boys . |
| 27 | Or he can adopt a clinical approach , hitting out the best line from every tee to give the best angle onto the green , taking note of all the historical precedents and prudently heeding them . |
| 28 | So Mr Baker can either give up , or he can work at weakening Likud . |
| 29 | He can work towards a peace that does not entail Israel leaving the West Bank ; he can force Israel out of the West Bank by applying economic pressure ; he can give up altogether ; or he can try to break that Likud armlock on Israeli politics . |
| 30 | I therefore put it to him that he has really now er a definite choice , he can seek to resist most of these amendments and I have n't a slightest doubt they 'll be put into the Bill er the Bill will be drastically altered thereby er and when it goes back to another place nobody quite knows er wh what will happen to it , or he can use his very considerable powers of conciliation er by taking a little time for further consideration . |