Example sentences of "that he could [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was that after two years out of racing , Niki asked Ron Dennis to give him a private test — mainly to assure himself that he had not lost his skill and that he could face the new world of FI wing cars , quicker and much more road-adhering than the old generation . |
| 2 | If Law had a political model , then it must have been Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman , a fellow Scot who had shown that an ordinary man could hold the highest office without discredit and that he could beat the clever and the politically sophisticated at their own game . |
| 3 | So intently did Nietzsche interpret Schopenhauer 's " personal " relevance at this time , that he could locate the vital centre of the philosopher 's system in its therapeutic power to help with the practical crises of living . |
| 4 | Mrs Sweet leant against him , so that he could feel the lacquered crispness of her hair on his ear . |
| 5 | The observer , equipped with a cassette tape-recorder , earphone and coding sheets , stationed himself so that he could observe the mother-child interaction in either of the two adjoining rooms . |
| 6 | Fortunately , however , they knew enough about Dawn 's condition to question the neurosurgeon closely when he described how Dawn would be fully conscious throughout the operation so that he could identify the damaged brain cells which were causing the spasticity , in order to destroy them . |
| 7 | The Prime Minister rearranged the seating round the Cabinet table so that he could avoid the unnerving penetrating eyes of his Minister of Health , as Lord Home revealed in his memoirs : |
| 8 | He hesitated , trying to divine his father 's intent in asking it so that he could formulate the appropriate answer . |
| 9 | They wo n't accept with Charles Wychwood that ‘ everything is copied ’ , and wo n't accept his opinion of Chatterton : ‘ Thomas Chatterton believed that he could explain the entire material and spiritual world in terms of imitation and forgery , and so sure was he of his own genius that he allowed it to flourish under other names . ’ |
| 10 | Once or twice Carolan himself had hinted at the moral justification of force to secure the people 's just demands , but he was careful to remain within the law , and when challenged in Parliament would observe loftily that he spoke philosophically , and that he could trust the good sense of the English people to interpret his views correctly . |
| 11 | The task required the child to select one of a series of plastic pieces varying in form , size and colour , and to tell the adult which one had been selected so that he could select the identical piece . |
| 12 | He gripped Gilbert 's chin and forced it up so that he could see the blue-white flickering of Darkfall lightning beyond the broken windows . |
| 13 | Tallboy moved his seat slightly out of symmetry so that he could see the three-quarter face of Jefferson . |
| 14 | Her flesh was so creamy-white and fine that he could trace the blue veins under it . |
| 15 | In 1919 he joined the staff of the London Homoeopathic Hospital as pathologist and bacteriologist , and found that he could use the homoeopathic method of potentization to prepare his vaccines which he was then able to give by mouth instead of by injection . |