Example sentences of "[Wh pn] can [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An eight year-old who can beat a chess master is remarkable , though it would not be so remarkable if they were eighteen . |
| 2 | Even if no one is around who can confirm a particular incident , if you are able to come up with details of surroundings and personalities of which you had no conscious memory , and if these are later proved to have been accurate , there is no real reason to suppose that a significant event was simply a figment of an over-active imagination . |
| 3 | The irony of police work is that the lowest of the low — the street constable , unlike in other ‘ professional ’ occupations , is the one who can exercise the maximum discretion at work . |
| 4 | This latter point sums up Scotland 's current midfield frailties : Is there not an attacking three-quarter in the land who can break the advantage line ? |
| 5 | The referee for this year is Defiant Mobile 's Billy Waldron who can choose the venue from any river , canal , lake or reservoir . |
| 6 | First of all , they are entitled to an independent assessor and they are profession independent assessors such as the A A or the R A C , who can inspect the vehicle , and if erm it 's proved that the case is genuine then there is no argument on that . |
| 7 | It is not everyone who can boast a Spitfire rebuild at the end of the cabbage patch , but with Spencer masterminding and a couple of chaps from the King Air days — two years later the contents of 35 cardboard boxes in pristine Spitfire formation bearing Spencer 's distinctive red livery , graced the skies . |
| 8 | ‘ Who can admire a traitor ? ’ |
| 9 | Who can dispute the fact that , if the figures were not as I have just announced and if industrial relations had not improved , we could not have attracted our record level of inward investment from across the world ? |
| 10 | Anyone who can separate the gains from the ‘ dynamics ’ of privatisation from those arising from capital investment or the companies ' success in manipulating the pricing formula will deserve free water for life . |
| 11 | Anyone who can separate the gains from the ‘ dynamics ’ of privatisation from those arising from capital investment or the companies ' success in manipulating the pricing formula will deserve free water for life . |
| 12 | And while one is busy throwing the rotten eggs , who can forget the duplicity of the DTI over the disposal of Rover to British Aerospace . |
| 13 | Who can forget the Catholic homosexual dipsomaniac being hit on the head by a dead seagull in The Fourth Man ? |
| 14 | She says we are looking for people who can pull a crowd as well as have a bit of fun . |
| 15 | There are people who can pull the wool over peoples ' eyes . |
| 16 | Who can tell the difference ? |
| 17 | But who can tell the damage we do to our writing voices when we roughly silence them for long stretches ? |
| 18 | The secret of making a good talking-head recording is to find someone who can tell an interesting story . |
| 19 | It claims that cholesterol testing is more effective when done by experienced medical staff who can interpret the results , and that the £7.99 kits are difficult to use . |
| 20 | And so , it some ways , it is : ‘ In any communication situation , the individual who can monopolize the communication is likely to have more power , and thus exert more influence . ’ |
| 21 | But the 25year-old , who can earn a reported £5,000 a day , fled barefoot and arrived later at the Speke home of her grandparents , Bill , 80 , and Irene , 72 . |
| 22 | Very young children think of their parents ( or those who stand in that position ) as ‘ wonderful ’ people who can do no wrong . |
| 23 | And Keith Rowland looked comfortable when he came on for his first cap in the second half … another lad who can do a useful job for Northern Ireland in years to come . |
| 24 | Who can do the work |
| 25 | But although it is such a widespread condition , endometriosis is often overlooked because it can only be diagnosed by a minor surgical procedure called laparoscopy ( the insertion of an illuminated instrument through a small incision in the abdomen ) and many suffers do have problems getting their GPs to refer them to a specialist who can do the these for them . |
| 26 | If there are potentially 5000–10000 people who can do the job , then it is almost certainly more appropriate to advertise , even anonymously . |
| 27 | Who can do the worst , the most exciting things to whom . |
| 28 | I mean the idea of course is to try at some stage and run a trainer trainer 's course , so that we expand the number of people who can who can do the training . |
| 29 | Is it effective in selecting employees who can do the job or pupils who can learn from the course ? |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm paying for a star actor who can do the job of acting , not some old has-been whose memory 's gone . ’ |