Example sentences of "[conj] he can [adv] [verb] [that] " in BNC.

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1 J. C. D. Clark has asserted that government at St James 's and Westminster was conducted " in terms which usually owed relatively little to a sense of popular pressure or wide accountability " , and although he can not deny that the electorate was growing in the period c. 1680 – 1715 , he attributes this to the attempts by the party leaders to manipulate the potential electorate for their own purposes : " The parties , in other words , created their electorate in these years ( rather than vice versa ) " .
2 The signification is private to the user , and he can only hope that resemblances in his own experience have their counterpart in the experience of others , so that they can attach a meaning of their own to what he says .
3 If he can not deduce that one or other party was to blame he can not send them both away empty-handed but must find that both contributed ( as happened in Baker v Market Harborough Industrial Co-operative Society , Wallace v Richards ( Leicester ) Ltd [ 1953 ] 1 WLR 1472 .
4 An ideal utilitarian like Moore may claim to have the moral insight that promise keeping is only right or obligatory , where one can not do better or as well by breaking the promise ( taking general account of effects on human trust into account ) but he can not claim that this insight is merely into how words are properly used .
5 It can not exactly be ascribed as a right of the pupil , however , since he can not ensure that the other schools and so on ask for the record .
6 The negative claim insists that a judge may not appeal to the law 's warrant for his decision when he can not show that conventions force him to do what he does , because the ideal is corrupted by any suggestion that past political decisions can yield rights and duties other than those dictated by convention .
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