Example sentences of "[Wh pn] can [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe about 1,000–1 , ’ said the only man who can pull off the improbable four-timer this year . |
| 2 | In this manner , who can tell when the SAAF will ultimately withdraw its workhorses ? |
| 3 | Miraculously much of this does get done , but there are few teachers , if any , who can walk out the gates at four o'clock , knowing they are up-to-date , |
| 4 | ‘ I 've spent the last seven months among people who can speak only the most rudimentary English . ’ |
| 5 | If you 've seen it somewhere then can you call a reward of twenty five pounds offered to the person who can advise where the car is payment will be upon receipt of retrieving the vehicle . |
| 6 | Every new Northern Ireland Secretary takes office bearing the slender hopes of the British people that he will at last prove the man who can draw forth the sword from the stone , and translate into reality the ritual expressions of faith about restoring peace to the province . |
| 7 | There are others who can see only the broad view and the general thrust of an operation . |
| 8 | It could be a flash new car , stumped up by a wealthy director who can write off the cost of the car as a demonstration model from his own showroom . |
| 9 | The vast majority of what are generally called well-educated persons in this country have , in the very process of their education , been impressed with the belief that metre is an arrangement of language which can be judged by the application of a mechanical test , and that the poet who produces a line which does not answer to the test is a fit subject for correction by any critic who can point out the discrepancy . |
| 10 | The local sailors are the people who probably know the conditions best , so it is worthwhile speaking to someone who can point out the idiosyncrasies of the location . |
| 11 | The Berlin Wall is not the only boundary to have been breached in the past seven weeks , and who can say where the process will end ? |