Example sentences of "who could [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penny 's range is very impressive , and there can be few scholars who could cover the same material with such authority . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Who is that being here in London who could throw the cold earth on my coffin without a smile on his or her face ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Can it really be the case that there is no Conservative woman Back Bencher who could do a better job than some of the present Cabinet Ministers ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In brief , the good leader , the man who could inspire his army , not merely he who could avoid the obvious pitfalls of generalship which Frontinus had pointed out , might be born with certain inherent qualities , but these had to be developed in the only way that could lead to success , through practice and experience . |
| 10 | Grandfather Lowson lived with them — he was called Matthew , nicknamed Mather — and he was a character who could tell a good story . |
| 11 | Described as a chirpy cockney who could tell a plausible story . |
| 12 | The solution would be to give all senior house officers a named educational supervisor or mentor who could coordinate an educational programme specially tailored to each senior house officer 's needs . |
| 13 | Pretty , dramatic Suzie , who could twist the younger members of the male sex round her beautifully manicured fingers , would have made it a point of honour to test her feminine power over Svend . |
| 14 | From the moment they all tumbled out of the minibus on the edge of the woods , the prime objective was to see who could collect the most conkers . |
| 15 | We could still imagine that there is a set of laws that determines events completely for some supernatural being , who could observe the present state of the universe without disturbing it . |
| 16 | Two years ago the company launched a special offer giving away barn owl breeding boxes with orders to farmers who could offer a suitable site . |
| 17 | It is clear that among the more prosperous merchants in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries there was the first beginning of a tendency towards specialization , in types of goods carried and markets exploited ; but growing trade , freer movements of peoples , no doubt enhanced the number of folk who could earn a few pennies peddling or carting . |
| 18 | He predicted there would be no shortage of volunteers , who could acquire the necessary skills on short courses . |
| 19 | There can be few of us who can not make a daisy chain with our eyes closed — and who could forget the daisy-spangled downs and pastures where we loved to picnic ? |
| 20 | Theodora watched as the woman whose voice would carry across a couple of ten-acre fields , and who could bring a rowdy committee to heel by clearing her throat , murmuring intimately into the mare 's ear and made little clucking noises as she plied her with carrots . |
| 21 | For record companies , it now became a question of who could pay the most money to secure the most in-demand acts . |
| 22 | Oh great competition it was , in my day about who could build the best stack er you know both in the hay coles and the and the harvest time . |
| 23 | Mr Mellor has never been given proper credit for showing sufficient resolution during the passage of the Broadcasting Bill to persuade his colleagues that ITV deserved to have its future determined by something more subtle than a contest to see who could stuff the most pound notes into a brown envelope earmarked for the Treasury . |
| 24 | Important or insignificant , customs appointments were , however , obtainable only by those who could expect a political favour , and many of the officers were in fact the nominees of a member of parliament and often the active partisans of that politician . |
| 25 | Many of us have long thought that anyone who could lead the Labour Party out of the darkness of 1983 would find leading the country relatively easy — and a task for which , despite all the sneering of the snobbish clique that makes up the political élite in this country , it is not necessary to possess a double first from Oxbridge . |
| 26 | I know of no one who could spare her that , who could make a tasteful picture , but You . |
| 27 | It will be especially meaningful for those who may be able to make a very limited financial offering , but who could make a considerable offering of time and skill . |
| 28 | ‘ She 's the only one who could make a positive identification , ’ Mahmoud explained . |
| 29 | Of course , there is a place for one or two chief executives , but I can think of several names , which I will not mention , of former Labour and Conservative council leaders who could make an enormous contribution . |
| 30 | ‘ Connie says she wonders a bit about the sort of God who could make the human race and love it . |