Example sentences of "[noun pl] who could [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was the earls who could produce the great and so necessary manpower . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Penny 's range is very impressive , and there can be few scholars who could cover the same material with such authority . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By the 1770s or 1780s there were few European rulers who could feel the same unquestioning self-assurance as Louis XIV a century earlier . |