Example sentences of "he can [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If the landlord opts and it is a landlord repairing lease , he can reclaim any input tax on the repairs as they are attributed to a taxable supply .
2 The question is whether he can discharge that responsibility to Parliament without being in day-to-day charge .
3 We ca n't see much in this dark gulley , but he can feel that barrel .
4 He can feel each hair , thick and individual .
5 is it , is it he can answer that question , is it he 's job to look in what er , happened in a year 's time .
6 An astronomer can measure this increase in wavelength if he can identify some emission lines in the spectrum of the object .
7 He can handle that computer scrabble beautifully , Bobby and he played last night on his own and he scored one thousand , was it three hundred
8 RIDDICK Bowe believes he can handle any heavyweight in the world and aims for a quick victory in his WBA heavyweight title defence against Jesse Ferguson in Washington .
9 and everything over to me , he 's got to be paid all the loans completely off plus the mortgage that 's in arrear , that , that house got to be round to square one with a , with a fourteen thousand pound mortgage and that 's it before he can sign that house over to me
10 He might also calculate that he can continue economic reform without a terminal confrontation with parliament .
11 If he has the support of the prime minister and main political colleagues , he can decide any matter which comes before him as he may think expedient .
12 Thornaby skipper Mike Priestley will be hoping he can repeat that feat for him a few times this season .
13 As er , she can go if they wo n't let Kirsty in , she can go one night , he can go another night .
14 He can offer more money but he may not be suitable .
15 He puts into them what he genuinely believes he needs to achieve the required levels of profit , and he can justify each figure .
16 He can show that silting and sediments over such sites , together with later erosion and obscuring by medieval sites , have removed many of the traces of such prehistoric valley settlements .
17 It shall be the duty of every professor to act as an examiner or assessor as and when requested to do so by a nominating committee or other competent body unless he can show reasonable cause to the satisfaction of the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors why on a particular occasion he should not do so .
18 It shall be the duty of every professor to act as the supervisor of graduate students as and when requested to do so by a faculty board or other competent body , unless he can show reasonable cause , to the satisfaction of that board or other body , why on a particular occasion he should not do so .
19 So long as he taxes spirits in a highly discriminatory fashion at home , he can expect other Member States to follow suit .
20 And despite their reservations over his image — indeed his whole lifestyle — he can expect total support from the archly-conservative US Tour when he has dried himself out at the Hazelton Clinic , near Minneapolis .
21 He can expect solid support from about a third of the 1,000 delegates , with a third belonging to the camp of malcontent communists and nationalists , and about a third undecided .
22 ‘ But civilisation has changed the ways in which he can express this instinct .
23 It is essential that the project manager organizes the project so that he can give uninterrupted thought for adequate periods to the key results areas .
24 At the same time he checks the mouth for any other problems that may have evolved since his previous visit and , because every month is different , he can give valuable advice to the horse owner on the shape of the mouth and type of bit most suitable for the individual horse .
25 His shoulders suggest he can paddle all day .
26 He can choose any number of steam points between 0 and 5 , with 0 being no steam at all and 5 being maximum power .
27 The specific exclusions of liability referred to above should in theory be sufficient for nearly all purposes , since it is unrealistic of the seller to suppose ( and indeed contrary to s 3 of the UCTA ) that he can exclude all liability for his failure to perform in all circumstances .
28 Male homosexuals in a large number of cases , says Freud , do not give up the mother and find another woman as sexual object , but they identify with their mother : ‘ he transforms himself into her and now looks about for objects which can replace his ego for him and on which he can bestow such love and care as he has experienced with his mother ’ .
29 The question whether a man who considers himself wronged has a claim which he can make good will depend on the answer to the question : Is there a writ to meet his case or , if there is not one , can one be framed which the King 's Courts will hold good ?
30 In the following stages , treatment in standing concentrates on restoring his proper balance mechanisms , so that he can make better quality selective movements using his trunk , leg and arm .
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