Example sentences of "that [pers pn] can [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The most comforting assurance that I can give the hon. Gentleman , which I am sure that he will welcome , is that the results of the study will be made public .
2 I am not sure that I can give the hon. Gentleman the first information that he requested .
3 Please arrange for the solicitor to come as soon as possible so that I can sign the necessary papers .
4 There 's an immediacy and drama about it , and the fact that I can control the entire process from pressing the shutter right through to the dry print counts for a lot .
5 I think that I can satisfy the Hon.
6 I think that I can satisfy the hon. Gentleman .
7 When I say that I can see , I mean that I can identify the three-dimensional shapes of objects , and their relative positions : thus , I can see that there is a chair standing in front of a table with a pile of books on it .
8 ‘ I still believe that I can find the great horse of last year , ’ he declared .
9 ‘ It really is physically and mathematically impossible , ’ continues Professor James , ‘ to work out the implications of my needs whenever I go into a supermarket unless I happen to know my metabolic rate , what it means in terms of my food needs and how to calculate this information so that I can select the correct diet . ’
10 Your excessively early arrival means that you can check the aforesaid dogs are not using your beautiful flower arrangements as their loo , and also run through a technical check and the autocue before anyone else gets there .
11 The advantage with this method is that you can move the whole tent in one if you need to re-position for any reason .
12 For doors with both full nylon and full mesh panels , make sure the mesh is on the outside so that you can open the weatherproof door without letting any of the baddies in .
13 Remember to wear something approaching the colour of your wedding dress so that you can judge the likely effect on the big day .
14 If this seems to be the cause , resolve in future to spot the effect in your camcorder viewfinder before you press the button so that you can take the necessary action to avoid the fault .
15 You will simply need to wait until the thing is sufficiently settled that you can get the total package set out here , and
16 Before you attempt the programme , check the reminders so that you can get the maximum possible results .
17 Gather and harness Nature through observation so that you can recreate the total experience .
18 ( a ) You may find that you can preserve the thematic patterning of the original without distorting the target text .
19 It continually updates so that you can see the exact amount of bytes free along with a graphical representation of the percentage free .
20 Imagine that you can see the yellow glow of the warm sun through your closed eyes .
21 ‘ Neither , ’ he continued in the same gentle tone of voice , ‘ am I prepared to be cast as some Viking lover straight out of a Hollywood film , rampaging and raping so that you can put the full responsibilities of your actions on me .
22 — Continue pausing in this way until you feel completely confident that you can follow the main points of the programme .
23 They say that they make every effort to supply components exactly as detailed in the manual so that you can follow the photographic sequences .
24 The easy option is to visit a kite shop , send for a mail order list or attend a kite meeting where there 's a sales stand so that you can buy the whole outfit — handle , line and a ready-to-fly kite with , or perhaps without , a tail .
25 It is only when we are weak and ‘ poor in spirit ’ that we can experience the overwhelming power and wealth of God .
26 The first part of this research will develop a novel statistical methodology , which combines census , electoral and survey data , so that we can evaluate the relative importance of three possible causes of the polarisation : the changing social structure of the population in different regions ; the impact of the growth of parties other than Conservative and Labour ; and variations in voting behaviour between people in defined social groups but living in different regions .
27 What Thucydides and his contemporaries were doing was ‘ challenging ’ social dogma , not simply ‘ readjusting ’ it , and it is in this characteristic of classical Greek scholarship that we can identify the crucial consequence of acquiring literacy .
28 If the hon. Gentleman really cares about unemployed people , will he join me today in calling on his Front-Bench colleagues to abandon their policy of a national statutory minimum wage , to abandon their jobs tax and to abandon their embrace of the European Community social action programme so that we can avoid the disastrous consequences for employment that would follow from such policies ?
29 The story of Doubting Thomas is told , not so that we shall admire Thomas , but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison .
30 I often think that our sociological relationships are like an action in which each person is a small knot so that we can influence the common situation in four directions .
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