Example sentences of "who could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weir was regarded as an effective right-hand batsman who could bowl useful medium-pacers for Auckland , and Kerr was considered an elegant opening batsman for Canterbury . |
| 2 | Penny 's range is very impressive , and there can be few scholars who could cover the same material with such authority . |
| 3 | A man who could decree that the waiters should be given a disgusting breakfast prior to serving their masters with cold ham , kedgeree , scrambled eggs with smoked salmon , grilled wild mushrooms , devilled kidneys and much , much more , was a man who deserved to have his teapot emptied over his scrofulous head . |
| 4 | ‘ Who could 've put that there ? |
| 5 | ‘ Who could 've done such a terrible thing ? ’ |
| 6 | Somewhere in this community today there is a person or people who could shed light on this atrocity . |
| 7 | ‘ This has put the pressure on us and although it will still be a tall order because Denbighshire are always a force to be reckoned with , I am confident we have the players who could pull it off . ’ |
| 8 | They sometimes had secretaries who could imitate their master 's hand so perfectly that it is difficult to tell one from t' other . |
| 9 | He had an inkling he was the only one who could decipher the code . |
| 10 | Those who could commit suicide , directly or indirectly , were doing so ; in this War , suicide was the only way to resist the call-up . |
| 11 | It was therefore Charles who could dictate policy and law in most respects . |
| 12 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 13 | So the only sort of foundationalist who could retain F 1 without F 2 would be one who accepted F 1 for other reasons than those provided by the regress argument . |
| 14 | It was she , too , alone , he sensed , who could satisfy him and he who could satisfy her . |
| 15 | It was she , too , alone , he sensed , who could satisfy him and he who could satisfy her . |
| 16 | This would involve identifying those who could satisfy criteria or competence and reliability , and encouraging them by removing some of the administrative restrictions now applying . |
| 17 | The great boulevards led to him from all directions , bringing the homage of a loyal and overawed population — who could assemble in the oval-shaped square thoughtfully provided for a quarter of a million of them . |
| 18 | She despised herself utterly for being the sort of person who could contemplate the slaughter of another woman with savage joy . |
| 19 | It was anybody I could pick on — anybody who could last the course . |
| 20 | And yet I do n't think there 's anybody in this room who could last a minute in a ring with a sumo wrestler because obviously being fit for sumo wrestling is quite different from being fit for sprint running , you need a completely different physique . |
| 21 | In a lecture in 1983 he argued that a civil servant who could answer ‘ yes ’ to the question ‘ Is he one of us ? ’ should retire and become a party politician . |
| 22 | Here was the man who could answer all those questions Leila was so vague about . |
| 23 | The first reported case ( Zollinger , 1935 ) was of a woman who could answer " alright " in response to questions immediately after the operation but otherwise could say little more than yes , no , goodbye " , " please " and a few other words . |
| 24 | This means that each job is learned completely and thoroughly , but I could n't help thinking that a few musicians and/or luthiers at strategic points around the factory would n't go amiss — groundworkers who actually understand how a guitar works and who could spot problems from the playing perspective , rather than just the engineering view . |
| 25 | And Lucy , who could spot the point at which casual sentiment tipped over into bullshit , said , ‘ Yeah . |
| 26 | He was not the only one who could break signed treaties . |
| 27 | I 've got to hand it to you , son , you 're the only one who really managed to deceive me , the only one who could break your father 's heart . |
| 28 | Conversely , we would be impressed by another yogi who could alter these processes in his intestines on a word of command but made no claims to know what was going on down there from moment to moment . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's nobody who could confirm that ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Of course there is someone who could confirm the truth of that file , ’ she said . |