Example sentences of "who could [verb] the [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 | Who is that being here in London who could throw the cold earth on my coffin without a smile on his or her face ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He predicted there would be no shortage of volunteers , who could acquire the necessary skills on short courses . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | For record companies , it now became a question of who could pay the most money to secure the most in-demand acts . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Connie says she wonders a bit about the sort of God who could make the human race and love it . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For example , there might be one or two parents , or some older , responsible young people , who could accompany the younger ones . |
| 19 | Paisley , one of the few who could grasp the larger issues brought into focus by the assassination attempt at Tully-West , unfortunately was absent at Westminster . |
| 20 | Dame Janet Fookes , who could become the Tory nominee for the first woman Speaker . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Instead , he gambled on finding someone who could play the last card in the British deck — independence — and then , with nothing further to offer , keep sufficient control of the situation to extricate Britain from India with honour and possibly with glory . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There was a man at last who could discern the larger purposes of God , and who played his part in them to the full . |
| 25 | The three used to compete with each other to see who could steal the best clothes or who would take the biggest risk . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She felt her hand being placed against his cheek , and then his lips pressing kisses upon it ; she pulled his hand back , and casting all caution to the winds pressed his palm to her own lips , fondling it , examining the scratched and chisel scars on his knuckles until he wanted her hand back again — and the manner in which they took it in turns to kiss hands through the wall became a competition between them to see who could demonstrate the greatest fondness , a competition that Jennifer was now desperate to win because all her instincts were telling her that Tristram was the only man she could ever love , and that through him lay her path to freedom and independence . |
| 29 | 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 . |