Example sentences of "[Wh pn] could [adv] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were several other Navy Type 0s , who could well aspire to the shortened form ‘ Zero ’ , but the A6M is the overwhelming holder of that title . |
| 2 | The stand-in who could also pass for a horribly oppressed 25-shilling Victorian clerk was , of course , Mark Lennox-Boyd , son of the more famous Alan . |
| 3 | The biggest landowners , who could best afford to erect new dwellings with a reasonable standard of construction and sanitation , had the least incentive to do so — indeed , as the principal local ratepayers they might easily penalize themselves by attracting workers who could later apply for poor relief . |
| 4 | The disbelief was common to all those at Old Trafford , who could barely take in one of the most dramatic domestic transfers of all time . |
| 5 | And that created a difference of opinion between certain of our members who were not in receipt of any incentive payment , as opposed to those who could clearly indulge in it and , and , and make a reasonable er er profit out of it . |
| 6 | Even if she is not someone who could easily enter into discussions of this nature , in which her feelings are explored , it is possible that she could benefit considerably from advice and comfort delivered to her in a less personal way through the pages of a book . |
| 7 | Most Christians had a strong reserve towards that polytheism that pervaded society , which is not to say that there were not quiet compromisers , like the Christians of southern Spain early in the fourth century who held official cultic positions in the worship of Jupiter , or the bishop of Troy who could painlessly apostatize under Julian because he had never ceased to pray to the sun-god . |
| 8 | Sam Corry and his medics carried the wounded who could not walk to the top of the rock above the landing beach , to which they were then lowered , down the rock face , on stretchers . |
| 9 | It might look all wrong to the author of ‘ L'Etat et puissance ’ ; to him , kings who could not tax by definition lacked power as well as wealth . |
| 10 | In my own backyard , friends who could not cope with their own homophobia deserted me … |
| 11 | The need for these was identified when the regular programme of summer schools for ABE students began to attract students with severe learning difficulties who could not cope with the curriculum offered but seemed to gain great benefit from the opportunity for residential education . |
| 12 | The revolutionaries tended to be drawn from those who could not cope with normal life , with a regular profession , with human relationships . |
| 13 | Those small owner publishers who could not cope with the new financial pressures were forced to expand , to merge with other larger companies , or go bust . |
| 14 | Hill farmers , who could not change to dairying because their land was unsuitable , are suffering because of such distortions . |
| 15 | The jetset hostess was a hypochondriac who could not manage without sleeping pills . |
| 16 | For ‘ proposing to carry lemons with us to Sky [ sic ] that he might be sure to have his lemonade ’ , Johnson ticked off Boswell — on two counts : that he , Sam , did not wish to be viewed as someone who could not do without his preferences ; and that it was ‘ very bad manners to carry provisions to any man 's house , as if he could not entertain you . |
| 17 | ‘ The national interest ’ was also a rebuff to congressmen , who could not afford to be critical of it , even when they already knew it as grounds to keep them in the dark . |
| 18 | The nineteenth-century origins of these provisions are closely tied into a desire to hold down state expenditure and to ensure that the wealthier classes did not have to dig too deep into their pockets to support people who could not work for wages . |
| 19 | There was also an increased emphasis on productivity and better educational standards , which drew attention to the existence of people who could not look after themselves or sustain a normal education . |
| 20 | Or maybe utterly sane , perhaps it was he who could not come to grips with the topsy-turvy world they all now lived in , Edward thought . |
| 21 | And there were those who could not come at all , they lived too far away . |
| 22 | Hall has a four-shot buffer after her round of 75 while Edmond , who could not play for the Essex ladies in county week due to a wrist injury , is also well-placed after a 77 . |
| 23 | The teacher might play an alien who could not communicate at all with the crew members ( children ) and wanted to learn their language . |
| 24 | Those with 16 or 17 passes but meeting all other requirements , and who could not keep within the ‘ 21 rule ’ if they were to take additional modules are awarded a degree without honours . |
| 25 | These " no-hopers " were probably given to me because I may well have been overheard to say I did not believe that there was such a person who had gone through a-initio training as a pilot who could not get on step by step until he became an operational pilot . |
| 26 | They were often used for one or another of the Sheikh families , or for some accident victim who could not get to a specialist hospital in any other way . |
| 27 | On the slopes of Everest there are believed to be at least a dozen bodies of climbers who could not get to the top , or could not get down again . |
| 28 | When he lectured at Harvard in this year , policemen had to control the crowds who came out to see him , and loudspeakers were set up for those who could not get into the auditorium . |
| 29 | Formula Two was introduced in 1947 to enable young drivers , who could not get into Formula One teams , to compete internationally . |
| 30 | ‘ So they thought that a lot of the people who could n't go to Knebworth would maybe come to the shows if we did them in London — Earls Court and places like that . |