Example sentences of "which he can [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ But civilisation has changed the ways in which he can express this instinct .
2 ‘ His plea of guilty is the only means by which he can express his contrition today and acknowledging it must be a lengthy prison sentence which he now faces . ’
3 If the seller can not maintain an action under section 49 , he may still have a claim for damages which he can bring under section 50 ‘ where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods . ’
4 The claim that the buyer can bring against the creditor ( e.g. the credit card company when the buyer has used his credit card to buy an item for more than £100 ) is the same as that which he can bring against the seller .
5 So , where the buyer bought the goods under a credit agreement of a certain type he will be able to bring against the creditor a claim similar to that which he can bring against the seller .
6 Williamson 's got five million years of more or less continuous deposit , which he can date pretty accurately erm and he 's got twenty one species of mollusc fossilised in that material .
7 If the Minister wants to retain this unitary Parliament , he had better start looking at the ways in which he can secure the rights of the people affected .
8 Francis acknowledged Leon Kennedy as his son , besides which he can leave his property to whom he likes .
9 You 've no doubt heard of these helmets which can feed a man 's senses a crudely simulated universe-a cartoon universe — with which he can interact physically ; he rotates , it rotates ; he hears a sound , he turns towards it , the source is where it should be , so on and so forth .
10 As for the slogan that man is master of his fate , no doubt it has its uses in combating a fatalism which could contract still further the limits within which he can influence the spontaneous by reason and will .
11 It 's up to you to give him the visual reference material from which he can start planning his camera angles , his cast positionings , etc . ’
12 He has created a gap downwind into which he can accelerate to start at speed , whilst those around him will still be sheeting in .
13 Otherwise he is restricted to those jobs which he can do one-handed .
14 McCoist , whose next goal will be his fiftieth of the season for Rangers and Scotland , is in the midst of the kind of run in which he can do no wrong .
15 The officer 's power to select what gets known to his supervisor may be exploited to support an image of competence which he can present in the reports he supplies .
16 Behind a blank and perfectly uniform wall , he needs to find the studs to which he can attach the cabinet .
17 Howard is enchanted by the slowness with which he can move , and the smallness of the gestures which are needed to change course and height .
18 The subjunctive in French allows the speaker to adopt this purely imaginary position from which he can give a verdict on whether a happening should have occurred or not .
19 This updated to the 1930s translation by Robert Cogo-Fawcett and Braham Murray affords the leading actor a role into which he can sink his theatrical teeth .
20 In this case , the retailer is liable to his buyer , the boy , but now has no contract under which he can recover indemnity .
21 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 ’ .
22 There is a potency in his warning at the end of chapter fourteen that the world is dependent on time which will end , and man 's most urgent and natural work , therefore , should be to find the means by which he can pass beyond it .
23 The reimbursement is standard-rated if the landlord has opted , and he must account for output tax on the reimbursement ( net of any VAT which he can reclaim ) .
24 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 ?
25 As for the conservation aim , there will initially be a greater , not a lesser , consumption of paper , if members are to be persuaded to be content with the summary , it will be necessary to undertake what the Regulations call a ‘ relevant consultation ’ which involves sending to each member both the full accounts for the financial year and a summary financial statement plus a postage-paid card on which he can make his choice for the future .
26 Expansion , give him a little straw out of which he can make the bricks , have a couple of good stories and so on .
27 He can retake the goods not only from B , the original tortfeasor , but even from a third person subject to the apparent exceptions which arise where that third person has acquired a good title even against A. Such exceptions are only apparent because A , having lost his right to the property , has got nothing which he can retake .
28 For one way of denying someone the respect to which he is entitled is by failing to treat him as an autonomous agent , for example , by unreasonably restricting the range of alternative courses of action from which he can choose .
29 If there is a vacuum of this kind , far from the field being clear for political decision-taking ( as Ramsay Muir suggests ) , the minister is lost because there are no properly prepared and documented alternatives from which he can choose .
30 With the vast literature on this part of history that is available the social scientist has a difficult task of evaluating the information upon which he can draw .
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