Example sentences of "[Wh pn] can [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second point is that , when ambiguity increases sharply , that is the time when people who can resolve that ambiguity by setting new organizational values to cope with it gain power . |
| 2 | Then who can forget those cabaret evenings ? |
| 3 | For instance , the major suppliers of earthmoving plant , backhoe loaders , excavators ( etc ) have their own finance houses , who can offer attractive loan finance or leasing packages to the manufacturer 's existing and potential customers . |
| 4 | Multi-national companies tend to prefer big agencies who can handle overseas advertising from a network of international offices . |
| 5 | The objective of the course provision is to produce office professionals who can make extensive use of technology but who are able to accept responsibility and operate heuristically as well as technically within organisational systems . |
| 6 | A person who can make good use of a resources library has learnt the following things : |
| 7 | One national newspaper is offering a bottle of champagne for the first reader who can give more information about Norma 's former boyfriend . |
| 8 | Amanda Ursell and Sarah Godden are trained nutritionists who can give sound advice on diets . |
| 9 | Is there anybody out there who can throw some light on this seemingly awkward subject ? |
| 10 | But a bowler who does not break down at the end of every other over and who can finish each season with an average around the 25 mark would be worth his weight in gold now . |
| 11 | Just as importantly , he is possessed of a generosity of mind which allows him to be calmly judicious about the merits of writers who can advocate militant homosexuality and drug-taking ( such as Thom Gunn ) , sympathise with feminism ( Elaine Feinstein ) or adhere to some variant of Marxism ( Hugh MacDiarmid ) . |
| 12 | The prime movers in developing this structure have been larger firms who can expect favoured treatment in times of expansion , and can transfer adjustment burdens along a chain of subcontractors in recessions . |
| 13 | Fundamentally , he is an orthodox batsman who can be totally unorthodox , the possessor of every stroke in the book and an improviser who can create any number of others . |
| 14 | 7.7.9.2 to pay to the Landlord on demand with Interest the amount of such insurance money so irrecoverable in which event the provisions of clauses 7.5 and 7.6 shall apply ] It is not unreasonable for a lease to contain a provision that the tenant will pay for the reinstatement of premises where insurance has been vitiated subject to a limitation being placed on the persons who can trigger this provision and possibly subject to the tenant being allowed to receive the payable insurance money as the reinstatement progresses . |
| 15 | The need for industry to employ more people who can speak another language is recognized by Kenneth Baker , as this comment shows : |
| 16 | Donnellan ( 1966 ) began by noting a distinction between two usages of definite descriptions ( inter alia , noun phrases in English with the determiner the ) : ( 18 ) The man drinking champagne is Lord Godolphin ( 19 ) The man who can lift this stone is stronger than an ox The first would most naturally have a referential use , where the description might in fact be wrong ( e.g. the man is actually drinking lemonade ) but the reference succeed in any case ; the second would most naturally have an attributive use where the speaker would not have any particular individual in mind ( we could paraphrase ( 19 ) as " whoever can lift this stone is stronger than an ox " ) . |
| 17 | We welcome people from every party , it does n't really matter which party , or even if they belong to no party , who are just committed to seeing a representative representation , seeing more women in there , because women in this country , just as a matter of fact , have a rather different experience from most men , and if you 're making a decision then you want there the people who have had a wide range of experience , who can bring that experience to bear on making the decision . |
| 18 | We are the last generation who can avert this catastrophe . |
| 19 | Therefore , viewing university students as an elite is justified in many ways when considering the low proportion who can enter this group and the usually predictable social backgrounds of the successful candidates . |
| 20 | In a memorandum written for the Commons ' Energy Committee , Andrew Holmes , the editor of Power in Europe , wrote , ‘ In the course of my work as a journalist , I have met a few environmentalists who can envisage some kind of long-term accommodation with the nuclear power industry , If waste disposal and other problems are satisfactorily solved ; I have never met an environmentalist who was not wholly and implacably opposed to the FBR . ’ |
| 21 | What it does n't do is offer an escape route to a Chancellor who can see public borrowing spiralling out of control yet can not afford to increase taxes substantially to keep the public spending deficit under some sort of control . |
| 22 | We who can see it , who can see this picture ? |
| 23 | ‘ Who else do you know who can write flaming Greek ? ’ |
| 24 | I have never been the kind of person who can dismiss physical appearance , who passes a make-up counter without a glance . |
| 25 | He was one of those people who can play any number of musical instruments . |
| 26 | For Athenian authorities , sharing of power and admission of non-state interests is not sufficient because it allows influence only to the articulate and to civic agitators — the minority who can turn municipal decision-making to their own advantage . |
| 27 | ‘ Constant changes in teaching patterns and assignment based learning means standard texts are inadequate , and it is hard to find authors who can produce appropriate material . |
| 28 | I open some of the popular newspapers covering some people 's private lives or great national tragedies and I feel almost ashamed and embarrassed to live in the same society as people who can produce that sort of stuff . ’ |
| 29 | Jermey 's aim is not to turn out chefs who can produce Chinese wedding feasts , but adventurous chefs who can borrow techniques where appropriate and incorporate them into their own style : ‘ They 'll see new ways of finishing dishes , new combinations of flavours . ’ |
| 30 | Whatever the quality of recruitment of barristers and solicitors , is my right hon. and learned Friend aware of the deep weakness in the British legal system in that justice is readily available to the poor who can get legal aid and to the rich who can easily afford it anyway but that to a large proportion of people in between it often seems barely accessible and yet they have to pay taxes to provide justice for others ? |