Example sentences of "[Wh det] he can [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Isaac God can look forward to a world over which he can again clap his hands in delight . |
| 2 | I watched its bemused leader struggling with economic concepts which he can barely grasp . |
| 3 | The consciousness of absolute dependence , which he can also sometimes call simply , ‘ God-consciousness ’ , might at first sight seem a slender thread indeed on which to suspend a comprehensive statement of all the themes of Christian theology . |
| 4 | The Duke turned Friar in Measure for Measure cultivates at least two different prose-styles , a plain and business-like one for his benevolent deceptions , and that of a moralist disappointed with the world — a persona within which he can also rise to more serious denunciatory verse as the occasion warrants ( for verse within this prose role see III.ii. 19–39 ; 261–82 ; IV.ii. 108–13 ) . |
| 5 | In order to get a patient actively involved in considering explanations for his behaviour it can be useful to offer him several possibilities to examine , especially if these include one or two explanations which are clearly unlikely and which he can easily refute . |
| 6 | But if man is vulnerable to impulses which send him spiralling down into darkness , that very vulnerability is the means by which he can existentially know the strength whereby it can be healed and stabilised . |
| 7 | Occurring spontaneously with this was the creation of what man , millions of years later is able to look back on and recognise as myriads of units of ‘ goodness ’ being produced from those ‘ good ’ events which were controlling evolution , and which he can now understand as being the origins of his well-being . |
| 8 | Montano reacts to this inversion of the truth with the correct response ( assuming it to be true ) which Iago has elicited from him , namely that Othello ought to be told ; at which point Iago demurs , with the pretence of friendship : From that declaration , after the ensuing brawl , Iago has built himself a platform from which he can now act the perfect friend : As we alone know , to get the truth from what Iago says about Cassio one must simply invert everything he says . |
| 9 | For , if man is to continue to nourish that vital part of human civilisation , which is the control over the future of life on earth , it is necessary that his definition of morality , good social behaviour , and understanding of right and wrong uses the evidence to be found within the evolutionary story and which he can then enshrine in a viable ‘ god ’ . |
| 10 | In most cases , the buyer thus prefers to include such a right expressly , which he can then invoke at his discretion in situations where the defects in the initial delivery of goods are so severe that he loses confidence in the ability of the seller to perform properly under the contract at all . |
| 11 | To the person with a simple doubt , a helpful discussion , a suggested book or a more detailed explanation may be enough to show him the way along which he can eagerly search for himself . |
| 12 | He longs for what he can never really have . |
| 13 | They should ask themselves what he can actually deliver . |
| 14 | He uses many adjectives , to render these images so clearly and precisely in our minds and throughout the novel everything seems so real to us and he makes us visualise what he can actually see . |
| 15 | Others , however , would rather maintain that these charges have sometimes been exaggerated , but that they do highlight genuine dangers of which one ought to be aware in reading Barth : dangers which lie partly in what he actually says , but also partly in what he can very easily be taken to be saying when his real meaning is subtly but significantly different . |