Example sentences of "he can [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Winchester admits the difficulty — and proceeds , undaunted , to sew as many threads as he can across the world 's biggest ocean ( ‘ bigger than all the land surface of the earth , including Antarctica , and with Africa counted twice . ’ ) .
2 ‘ The endeavours of a man truly good , ’ he once wrote , ‘ are not confined to this or that particular design , but lay hold on all opportunities of doing the best service he can to the souls and bodies of mankind . ’
3 He would not treat them as sources of law past that point , but his general responsibility when he believes that law has run out is to make the best new law he can for the future , and he might be concerned with past legal doctrine for special reasons bearing on that issue .
4 After getting a good general impression of the state of the wreckage and as much information as he can about the aircraft configuration on impact , he will be mainly concerned in the beginning to establish the intended flight-path and all the circumstances surrounding the flight .
5 But they are brought together , in successive books , by the force of this preoccupation , and the reader has to make what he can of the resemblance between two figures quite remote from one another in any coarser understanding of the matter , to do this while adjusting his sight to a vista of copycats , impostors and successive interpretations — a vista which is far from unfamiliar now and can be caught , for instance , in the productions and reproductions of contemporary literary theory .
6 The lithographer can draw on a regular piece of paper with the same facility that he can with a pencil or brush .
7 And then , I mean , but every one of us had a letter off him and said he was , he was doing what he can with the council
8 The physiotherapist is motivator and facilitator , inspiring and encouraging the patient to do what he can at every stage .
9 This requires him to immerse himself as thoroughly as he can in the life of the community he is trying to understand .
10 But to the extent that such relations become normal or , in certain areas , dominant , he can in the end , basically , be offering his labour , to produce works of a certain known type .
11 The father , for reasons put forward by Miss McCreath connected with his own situation and his wish to as it were be forgiven for his past behaviour , and in the hopes of showing that he can in the future notwithstanding his past behaviour be contemplated as somebody to play a röle in the life of his children , supports the making of an interim care order or does not oppose it because he acknowledges that there should be supervision by the plaintiffs .
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