Example sentences of "[Wh pn] can [verb] a [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Who can admire a traitor ? ’ |
| 4 | She says we are looking for people who can pull a crowd as well as have a bit of fun . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's nobody who can hold a candle to him , ’ Mona added . |
| 6 | O , who can hold a fire in his hand by thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? |
| 7 | It 's a rare person who can ignore a letter sent personally to him over the signature of Clint Eastwood or Charlton Heston , saying ‘ I need your help ’ . |
| 8 | The producer should know the score , not in the same way as a conductor , but perhaps in the manner of a good driver who does not know what goes on underneath the bonnet but who can handle a car very well and one who knows exactly what to do if the car breaks down . |
| 9 | And , as we observed earlier , there are still people in Britain who can ascribe a fire caused by lightning in York to God 's wrath at the appointment of a somewhat outspoken bishop — as if , amid the violence , hatred , prejudice , insensitivity and menace of the modern world , God had nothing more pressing on His mind , nothing better to do with His resources . |
| 10 | ‘ You may know somebody who can make a dress for you , or help you make your own , ’ said Fenella Willis . |
| 11 | I mean there ought to be someone who can make a lead for us in house , that sort of thing , which we do n't have at the moment , because we 've got things like complicated split leads for rigging up two monitors , and we 've had those twice we 've had those made , outside , but they only need to get sort of broken , and we 're back to square one . |
| 12 | If nothing else you feel for a man blighted by an absurdly exalted image — and one who can make a joke out of it in the wonderful tongue-in-cheek prophecy of The End of the World that closes the album ( ‘ Nostradamus and Jesus and Buddha and me/ We said it was coming/ Now just wait and see ’ ) . |
| 13 | It 's a rare individual who can make a living from writing books ; the Jeffrey Archers of this world are few . |
| 14 | They see the tiny , vivacious Chicana poetess as someone who can give a voice to their experiences of LA . |
| 15 | So erm and another thing I was going to suggest erm I need help really erm for the meetings , I need somebody who will help , a social secretary say somebody who will help with the raffles and somebody who will organize meetings , what 's going on at meetings because it 's getting , the job is getting most difficult and I work part-time and it 's , it 's , I 'm not getting any younger and I 'm finding it a struggle to try and get everything fixed , the raffles and the what 's going on and everything organized , so if you , if you if you could see the way clear , perhaps we could create a social secretary or an assistant secretary where we could have somebody who can give a hand with the organization of the meetings |
| 16 | Matters have to be handled on a basis of equal awareness between numerous potential peers in the management task but it is the school alone , led by the head , who can give an assurance of quality . |
| 17 | For someone who can give an object as plain and manageable as a book all the symmetry and neatness of a loosely wrapped food blender , the prospect of getting cumbersome gardening tools into a parcel terrifies me . |
| 18 | Anyone who can rekindle a friendship should write to him at Flat 11 , Grove Court , Cooden Drive , Bexhill , Sussex or ring him at 0424–212456 . |
| 19 | And so this interest in marriage and this kind of fascination and you kn I think it would be very natural , I think , for a gay person to feel terribly envious of people who can create a family and er and this kind of fascination with babies . |
| 20 | It is only the governing body who can end a suspension . |
| 21 | It is only through the influence of individuals who can set an example , and whom the masses recognize as their leaders , that they can be induced to perform the work and undergo the renunciations on which the existence of civilization depends . |
| 22 | It 's true that some to leave a mess but that 's convenient for builders and speculators who can wreck a place and then blame it on the squatters . |
| 23 | A fortune awaits any engineer who can devise a way of transferring , in real time , a sequence of animation direct from a computer 's memory to video tape or film . |
| 24 | Lets face it just about everyone who can kick a ball scored against him last year ! ! ! |
| 25 | Mrs Murchie said : ‘ This will be perfect for anyone who can combine a training in first aid with a love of cricket . ’ |
| 26 | As churches are planted across the country , the great need is for leaders who can lead a team , impart a vision for this work , and see it come to pass . |
| 27 | One of the few things that keeps movies worth watching is the vitality of all the marvellous comedians from Saturday Night Live and SCTV : Bill Murray , John Candy and so on , terrific personalities who can bring a vibrancy even to dead scripts . ’ |
| 28 | These are normally the only customers who can bring an action under s 62 of the FSA for loss resulting from breach of the COB Rules . |
| 29 | who can spot a citizen |
| 30 | After all who can run a business as well as an ex-communist … ? ( p. 136 ) |