Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [Wh det] he can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , the obligation to pay loan interest on the due dates creates an immediate debt between the company and the loan stock holder for which he can sue , whereas a preference dividend does not become a debt until it is declared and due . |
| 2 | For one way of denying someone the respect to which he is entitled is by failing to treat him as an autonomous agent , for example , by unreasonably restricting the range of alternative courses of action from which he can choose . |
| 3 | As for the conservation aim , there will initially be a greater , not a lesser , consumption of paper , if members are to be persuaded to be content with the summary , it will be necessary to undertake what the Regulations call a ‘ relevant consultation ’ which involves sending to each member both the full accounts for the financial year and a summary financial statement plus a postage-paid card on which he can make his choice for the future . |
| 4 | Then he cleans the bed of needles and berries , spreads an old blanket over it , stretches himself at length , his hands folded under his head , and looks through the branches at what he can see of the blue sky . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | McCoist , whose next goal will be his fiftieth of the season for Rangers and Scotland , is in the midst of the kind of run in which he can do no wrong . |
| 7 | In one case Valens discusses a trust worded ‘ Let Stichus be free : and I request that my heir teach him a skill by which he can look after himself ; in another Ulpian deals with a bequest of an annual sum in which the amount has been left out . |
| 8 | It is essential that the order of committal sets out the court 's findings , otherwise the contemnor does not have any basis upon which he can challenge them . |
| 9 | If there is a vacuum of this kind , far from the field being clear for political decision-taking ( as Ramsay Muir suggests ) , the minister is lost because there are no properly prepared and documented alternatives from which he can choose . |
| 10 | In this case , the retailer is liable to his buyer , the boy , but now has no contract under which he can recover indemnity . |
| 11 | He takes a pride in what he can do in a small space . |
| 12 | ‘ The aggrieved consumer needs an accessible local service to which he can take his troubles and where he will receive a realistic appraisal , a measure of help in presenting his case , or a pointer to the next step . |
| 13 | An investor who holds a European call option in a stock thus has a guaranteed price at which he can buy the stock on the settlement day , if he so wishes . |
| 14 | Rather he is informed about the situation and the purpose of informing him is to provide a knowledge base from which he can work out his own actions . |
| 15 | This updated to the 1930s translation by Robert Cogo-Fawcett and Braham Murray affords the leading actor a role into which he can sink his theatrical teeth . |
| 16 | If the Minister wants to retain this unitary Parliament , he had better start looking at the ways in which he can secure the rights of the people affected . |
| 17 | ‘ But civilisation has changed the ways in which he can express this instinct . |
| 18 | He 'll identify ways in which he can help Steven . |
| 19 | Behind a blank and perfectly uniform wall , he needs to find the studs to which he can attach the cabinet . |
| 20 | The supplier will seek his profits in other markets , hoping that the volume at which he can operate in the contract market will make his product highly competitive in price and cost terms elsewhere . |
| 21 | He has a local European Member of Parliament and I am sure that he is aware of ways by which he can speed up replies . |
| 22 | ‘ His plea of guilty is the only means by which he can express his contrition today and acknowledging it must be a lengthy prison sentence which he now faces . ’ |
| 23 | There is a potency in his warning at the end of chapter fourteen that the world is dependent on time which will end , and man 's most urgent and natural work , therefore , should be to find the means by which he can pass beyond it . |
| 24 | Sir Hugo Mallinger , to a limited extent , uses his property for the common good , not least in raising Daniel Deronda ; Grandcourt regards his inheritance as the means by which he can indulge his vices . |
| 25 | At times he feels that the most he can hope for is to identify some fissures in the accumulating mass of proposals in their formative stages into which he can try to insert something of his own political values . |
| 26 | As for the slogan that man is master of his fate , no doubt it has its uses in combating a fatalism which could contract still further the limits within which he can influence the spontaneous by reason and will . |
| 27 | It is the solid tower into which he can flee at any time for sanctuary . |
| 28 | Instead of an individual learning to create a language-use within which he can select to mediate his individual feeling , a public language user tends to attach his feelings to social counters or tags which maximize the solidarity of the social relationship at the cost of the logical structure of the communication and the specificity of the feeling . |
| 29 | With the vast literature on this part of history that is available the social scientist has a difficult task of evaluating the information upon which he can draw . |
| 30 | Howard is enchanted by the slowness with which he can move , and the smallness of the gestures which are needed to change course and height . |