Example sentences of "who could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There was one person still left who could confirm the story in that file . |
| 32 | He was the soapbox orator who could quote Virgil or Shakespeare to give dignity to a bitter grudge . |
| 33 | But a man still , who could betray one woman with another . |
| 34 | There was now a new worker in the network who also made an early relationship with families but who could present a broader choice of day care to parents . |
| 35 | Unhampered by his lack of scholarly acquaintance with Aeschylus , or indeed any Greek author , he saw himself ( it was evident ) as the German Aeschylus who could reinterpret in tragic poetry and music the ancient gods , heroes and heroic legends that comprised the national mythology . |
| 36 | Who could fail to be stirred by the thought of such purpose , reaching back over generations to the men who had gathered on this spot two centuries before ? |
| 37 | Who could fail to notice the resplendent little cock wheatears by the roadside ? |
| 38 | ‘ Who could fail to love you ? ’ |
| 39 | Maybe not , but some Hollywood stars are forced to live in genuine fear of their lives , who could fail to give a shiver at the predicament of actress Sharon Gless — star of Cagney and Lacey — who was tormented for years by an obsessional lesbian fan . |
| 40 | Some years ago Edmund Wilson complained of writers of Gothic who could fail to lay hold on the terrors that lie deep in the human soul and have caused man to fear himself . |
| 41 | We found that the best were often child care experts who could suggest constructive alternatives , not so often the most senior people in the organisation . |
| 42 | The staff might have been helped by an outsider who could question those things that teachers generally take for granted ( for instance , by asking what they meant by their habitual use of the term ‘ bright children ’ ) , or who could suggest an appropriate range of evaluative techniques . |
| 43 | Instead , he told him he must live his life his own way , and advised John , when he spoke of having fallen in love with a ‘ straight ’ boy at school , to try to save his love for someone who could return it . |
| 44 | The paper says that former IBM chief outside auditor Donald Chandler of Price Waterhouse & Co wrote in a 1988 memo that IBM was reporting revenues that it might never realise by booking sales when products were shipped — to its own warehouses for onward staging to customers , or to dealers who could return them . |
| 45 | The secular authorities needed priests who could attract the loyalty of their parishioners . |
| 46 | It was some player indeed who could unleash a power-drive with a ball that was more like a cannon-ball than a football ! |
| 47 | There was probably a man , somewhere , who could cope with Elinor . |
| 48 | They were all in positions of heads of department , consequently I got the feeling that the secondary modern staff who could cope with it to a certain extent , withdrew labour . |
| 49 | Dwarves were well-versed in all magical matters — witness RUMPELSTILTSKIN , who could spin gold from straw , and King Albrich , who could restrain an angry giant with an enchanted coat-thread . |
| 50 | ‘ To have a go-between , one who could move freely betwixt Tower and Westminster , betwixt my sons and myself , would greatly relieve my concern for their welfare . ’ |
| 51 | This was pleasant for the small landowners , who could move on to Virginia and resume tobacco growing there , but less prosperous white men in the West Indies lost almost all hope of working up the scale to become modest farmers on their own land . |
| 52 | She would have preferred to be a good girl who could move among adults in silence , relying on the common sense of her parent to observe and extinguish any threats to her comfort or susceptibilities . |
| 53 | Possible candidates for Atherton 's place are Somerset youngster Mark Lathwell and England vice-captain Alec Stewart , who could move up the order to open if Jack Russell was recalled as wicketkeeper . |
| 54 | He did not win : the executive in charge of setting up the European offices was the dynamic ex-sheriff of Caribou , Idaho , named William Swift Daliba , who could toss a silver dollar in the air and plug it with his six-gun . |
| 55 | Those who could smell the pheromone either loved it or hated it . |
| 56 | The steward was not left to mourn that his bottles found no custom : there was treating and return treating , and one humble Highlander who could sing Gaelic songs was made the sink into which was poured the spirits bought by sundry odd pence ; and , to the satisfaction of those who deem it a noble accomplishment the filling a man drunk , this Celt was brought into that pitiable condition , and manifested the power of the spirits over his brain in rather a curious way , — he was for kissing all round . |
| 57 | That idea had come from no less a person than the famous Sylvia Grey — who could sing , dance and play the piano , divinely . |
| 58 | Who is that being here in London who could throw the cold earth on my coffin without a smile on his or her face ? |
| 59 | After throwing stones in the water for nearly half an hour , listening to the different sounds and seeing who could throw the farthest , Endill began to feel a little fed up . |
| 60 | I could n't imagine Ted contemplating the nature of Eva and Dad 's taut happiness or telling of how they were always trying to pull each other 's tracksuit bottoms down and playing games like seeing who could throw a lolly-stick in a bin the most times out of ten . |