Example sentences of "[adv] who could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Yorkshireman ( so who could doubt his knowledge of cricket ? ) |
| 2 | But it was the scientist alone who could make sense of the discoveries , and late eighteenth-century naturalists had already begun to puzzle over the bones of gigantic elephant-like creatures found both in America and in Europe . |
| 3 | Talking to journalist Brian Connell , he said : ‘ You have got to choose somebody very carefully who could fulfil this particular role because people like you , perhaps , would expect quite a lot from somebody like that and it has got to be somebody pretty special . ’ |
| 4 | But it is the horse who was third the day before who could give him his biggest win , matching Omerta 's success in the National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham in 1986 . |
| 5 | He obviously thought she was a man-hungry piranha , and really who could blame him ? |
| 6 | ( Well who could want such sloppy kisses anyway thought I ) And if you lay full length with them on the beach it was a " sign " you would go all the way . |
| 7 | Of course she knew why she had been so anxious to come ; there must be some , perhaps many , people here who could tell her about S. Kettering . |
| 8 | There 'll be twenty people at least who could swear he was working at the time . |
| 9 | Living alone , although a very real care problem for many dementia sufferers because of the need some of them have for continual safeguarding , might not in itself be a problem for all if they had sons or ( more realistically ) daughters living nearby who could help with their care . |
| 10 | However , to the rescue comes their driver , an enterprising Swiss chap who announced that they were not to worry , he had a friend who lived nearby who could help them out . |
| 11 | It was some player indeed who could unleash a power-drive with a ball that was more like a cannon-ball than a football ! |
| 12 | The ostrich dug his head in and believed that there was nobody out there who could notice — and if they did , what did it matter ? |
| 13 | I had friends there who could help me to sell my land in Brazil , and I needed the money . |
| 14 | But I would like to ask : Is there anyone out there who could write about these issues , particularly about women and art , in a simple straightforward way , so that it does not sound like reading a P.H.D . |
| 15 | We had some young boys out there who could have gone into their shell , but they did n't and that pleased me . ’ |
| 16 | But then who could imagine a man writing a song about a ‘ vulva woman ’ ( ‘ Sheela-Na-Gig ’ ) displaying her genitals and laughing ? |
| 17 | The Necromundans glanced curiously at that blind , fey figure of a man who was as alabastine as the idol of the primarch — his flesh almost translucent — yet who could speak with his mind from star to star , and could even report directly to the Emperor , should a sufficiently momentous situation arise . |
| 18 | Yet who could assert that these are incomes which keep families out of poverty ? |
| 19 | The question of criteria of objectivity is a complex one , and it is not easy to decide what criteria are valid in what context.5 But if it was only I myself and no one else who could decide whether or not an error has been committed in a given instance , then the distinction between " subjective " and " objective " order would have no meaning . |
| 20 | I knew somebody else who could do that , but he had four feet . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course there 's someone else who could tell . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ There 's no one else who could help ? |