Example sentences of "[det] [Wh pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for talkin' , I would say there are few who could talk better . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yardley , a second- or third-change bowler throughout his career , was rightly proud to be one of the very few who could claim to have dismissed Bradman thrice in Test matches . |
| 4 | A slim , wiry youth , he was one of the few who could claim a ‘ middle-class ’ upbringing . |
| 5 | By the time of Waterloo , for those few who could afford the coaches , passenger travel was perhaps four times as fast as it had been in 1750 between major centres and twice as fast elsewhere . |
| 6 | Strongly opposing the maintenance of an essentially arbitrary general retirement-age , the Committee recommended that the test for engagement or retirement should be capacity , not age , and that all who could give effective service should have the chance to continue in work if they so wished . |
| 7 | What sort of creature was she after all who could feel only loathing for a woman who had suffered so ? |
| 8 | The first practical measures of educational extension were instituted during the 1850s and 1860s when London degrees were opened to all who could pass an " external " examination , but it was only towards the end of the 1860s that an emphasis on English language , literature , and history became an important feature of the process of extension . |
| 9 | ‘ Self-help ’ through mutual aid institutions remained crucial to the survival of all who could achieve it , with most such institutions expanding steadily . |
| 10 | With grants available to all who could gain entry to university or polytechnic , initial teaching training courses came to be filled , in part , with young people whose ‘ A ’ level grades were not high enough to gain entrance on conventional university course . |
| 11 | But in the twelfth century , by and large , whoever could enter the ranks of the privileged clergy could hope for a bishopric ; and the ranks of the privileged clergy were open to all who could find patronage , whether because of birth or talent or good luck . |
| 12 | It was not many who could make a speech like Lugh . |
| 13 | But at 1–60 a bottle ( half pint ) there 's not many who could afford to get scuttered on it . |
| 14 | In the absence of official sanction , however , the ground already covered in the development of school-based consultative in-service programmes may itself offer the wanted training opportunities for special needs post-holders and those who could give them support in their turn . |
| 15 | But those who could speak English spoke no Welsh aloud in Shrewsbury in those days , for feeling was running all the higher because the two races bred and mingled so closely here , and it was well to be known as a loyal king 's man , and indulge other sympathies only in low voices round the hearth , or better still , in silence within the heart . |
| 16 | Non-swimmers wore coloured bathing hats ; those who could swim at least a length wore white hats , those who had passed the bronze medal wore black caps , and a very few wore silver for the silver medal . |
| 17 | Alice 's Restaurant ( 1969 ) had an obvious appeal for those who could identify with a communal haven for hippies , and Little Big Man would continue to reveal his preoccupation with the outsider by seeing the Cheyenne as ‘ ethnic ’ hippies who contrasted favourably with white civilisation . |
| 18 | Ada and Daisy 's task was to hand round food , and to talk to those who could manage some conversation . |
| 19 | It should not , Mr Mayor , definitely not be used simply as an easy option for those who could manage quite happily to provide for themselves , either renting or buying in the private sector but instead choose to let the state provide . |
| 20 | Like other movements to bring about change in the same period antislavery had to find ways of attracting the attention and gaining the support of those who could advance the cause . |
| 21 | The Foreign Office minister , Mr Francis Maude dismissed the Opposition 's bitter criticism of last week 's deportations , saying it came from those who could stand on the sidelines wringing their hands and decrying what was done . |
| 22 | Those who could stand the pace flourished ; those who could not went to the wall . |
| 23 | There was dappled shade for those who preferred it or , by moving just a little , the afternoon sun for those who could stand the heat . |
| 24 | The private sector , however , had no intention of extending coverage to those who could offer it little or no return on their balance sheet . |
| 25 | Those who could feed themselves had at least had the choice of not eating the tapioca that they disliked and going hungry . |
| 26 | He was contemptuous of those who could think and talk of nothing but party politics and political careers , but his own talk ( and presumably his own thought ) was much about the penumbra of government and the idiosyncrasies of politicians . |
| 27 | Those who could smell the pheromone either loved it or hated it . |
| 28 | Further on were those who were compelling to listen to ; and above them were those who could make you laugh , too . |
| 29 | On 16 April the House Budget Committee reported out a budget resolution that incorporated $15.8 billion in cuts — $20 billion less than the administration had requested — and the battle was now joined for the votes of those who could make or break the president 's programme , the Gypsy Moths and the Boll Weevils . |
| 30 | When the tables had been cleared and those who could do so had entertained the rest with songs and recitations , the whole company settled down for a sing-song . |