Example sentences of "[noun sg] he can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no ‘ correct ’ way for a librarian to calculate the desirable size of his bookfund , but taking into account published standards plus a variety of factors which affect the use and condition of his stock he can devise a semi-scientific approach . |
| 2 | At times he has a lover he can hurt |
| 3 | He may simply be an entrepreneur who perceives the opportunity to buy resources at a total cost lower than the revenue he can obtain from the sale of output . |
| 4 | ‘ This is n't some damn club he can visit when it fucking well suits him , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Kevin says he 's swimming backstroke because it 's the only stroke he can do . |
| 6 | There are a small but not insignificant group of people who will be moved by this issue to vote in the General Election even though apathetic about other policies and the Prime Minister needs every vote he can get . |
| 7 | If the investor is to syndicate , the management and its advisers should try to play some part in the selection of additional investors ; if an additional director is to be appointed by the syndicate , that director ought to be selected for the experience and talent he can bring to Newco . |
| 8 | I thought cor blimey it 's a wonder he can walk look at that you would n't believe that today would you nineteen ninety two oh no wonder they all come over here , is so really , ca n't blame them if that 's the sort of quality of life they 've got |
| 9 | No wonder he can afford to live in Ploughman 's Lane . |
| 10 | Through the living-room window he can see a playpen , and a child 's pot standing on the table . |
| 11 | He will also be in touch with all the local voluntary services for the elderly and disabled , whose help he can raise . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've had sleepless nights but it 's the biggest day of his life and he needs all the help he can get , ’ he said . |
| 13 | And sadly he needs all the help he can get right now … starting tonight . |
| 14 | He wants to be a county cricketer and he 's ready to take all the help he can get . ’ |
| 15 | If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace . |
| 16 | EUROTUNNEL chairman Sir Alastair Morton is already planning for the moment he can step down from the £9 billion project . |
| 17 | ‘ It will be a place he can call his own but it will be in a block with a single entrance point and a resident warder , ’ |
| 18 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
| 19 | Nigel says the golf course is the only place he can relax and switch off … |
| 20 | Especially if , mind you , he might not be able to do anything , it 's like I say you you 've got your hot water and it 's probably a job he can do better in the week , one night as long as he says it 's safe to use and you 're not gon na blow the tank up on yourself ! |
| 21 | In either case he does not run the risk of being left with the goods ; if he can not find a purchaser he can return them to X. The answer is that he is X 's agent if under the terms of his contract with X he has no right himself to buy the goods but can only sell to a third party , Weiner v. Harris ( 1910 C.A. ) . |
| 22 | Returning to academia he can recall the spatial remove as being ‘ out there in the field ’ ; so that much of the current anthropology at home may still only be practising in its own backyard , pursuing an exploration of ‘ exotic cultures at home ’ rather than looking into its own front room ( Cheater 1987 : 166 ) . |
| 23 | do n't we get a great big saucepan lid he can give them bill ? |
| 24 | A brave man deserves an opponent he can reach . |
| 25 | At one extreme , the consumer could spend nothing in the present period and save all of his present income so that in the future period he can spend as much as Y t + 1 ; + ( 1 + i ) Y t ; that is , his future income plus his saved present income plus interest . |
| 26 | And the Substitute had better be with me — tell Bacci he can take my car down to Florence , I do n't really need him and the Substitute can take me back with him … |
| 27 | because at the other side of the hill he can see well , life 's gon na be a lot easier |
| 28 | Occasionally when an employee is found to be driving whilst uninsured on his employer 's business he can put forward a defence where he shows — |
| 29 | This right he can enforce not only by action , but also by a form of self-help known as distress , the seizure of any goods , whether belonging to the tenant or a stranger , which may be found on the premises . |
| 30 | We may note that although Moore thinks that in some sense what one should do is what looks most likely to be one 's duty in the sense of that which will produce the best consequences , it is unclear what meaning he can ascribe to this ‘ should ’ . |