Example sentences of "[noun] who could [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During World War II , it was the rough-and-ready American GI who could fix the stalled jeep in Normandy while the French regiment only looked on . |
| 2 | In Bobby Collins you had a pocket battleship of an inside-forward who could mix the sacred with the profane . |
| 3 | Clearly , a member of parliament who could take the foul-mouthed uncle William far from the laird of Craigie 's children might legitimately expect the memory of such a favour to persist for an election or two . |
| 4 | The idea was that the few men in the University who could read the original language of the Edda and the Sagas should group together with those who wished to learn , and read their way through the principal texts . |
| 5 | If I can do it , I 'm sure there are plenty of other talented players in Victoria who could do the same ’ , he said . |
| 6 | And it was the earls who could produce the great and so necessary manpower . |
| 7 | The dearth was of persons who could give the only kind of witness that counts with those looking for help , the kind that is couched in the first person singular ’ ( Trueblood 1961:51 ) . |
| 8 | As far as the working classes were concerned all that was needed was managers who could determine the right mix of films and the right range of prices to suit the specific down-town drop-in cinemas and even more the neighbourhood and small-town cinemas that were now increasingly thought of as catering for ‘ industrial ’ or working-men audiences . |
| 9 | In Stuart Davies and Emyr Lewis we have two forwards in the same mould who could do the same to France one day . |
| 10 | He must be more patient and brace himself up to realise that he was the only person who could tackle the present chaotic state of affairs , ' This was the fourth time the King had told MacDonald that he would not accept his resignation . |
| 11 | In addition to installing basic systems for accounting , cost-control and distribution , Mr Shirley helped to create a layer of reliable executives who could translate the technical visions of the company 's chairman and founder , Mr Bill Gates , into products that got out the door , on time and to budget . |
| 12 | ‘ Connie says she wonders a bit about the sort of God who could make the human race and love it . |
| 13 | Given time , Rollerskate Skinny may well mature into the kind of discipline outfit who could give the American noise set a run for its money . |
| 14 | Penny 's range is very impressive , and there can be few scholars who could cover the same material with such authority . |
| 15 | My mother was a cook who could make the most of three-pennyworth of meat pieces to enrich my father 's vegetables . |
| 16 | When Nick Logan at NME advertised for ‘ Hip Young Gunslingers ’ , he was looking for kids like Parsons who could articulate the inarticulate : punk . |
| 17 | A tutor who could command the unhesitating affection and intellectual respect of so miscellaneous a collection of men as Derek Brewer ( later Master of Emmanuel College , Cambridge ) , the drama critic Kenneth Tynan , the publisher Charles Monteith and the poet John Wain was clearly doing his job . |
| 18 | Adult female suffrage gave legal recognition to an utterly new status for women who could enter the public world as individuals in their own right rather than as members of families . |
| 19 | By the 1770s or 1780s there were few European rulers who could feel the same unquestioning self-assurance as Louis XIV a century earlier . |
| 20 | Who is that being here in London who could throw the cold earth on my coffin without a smile on his or her face ? |