Example sentences of "who [modal v] [vb infin] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. Friend share my view that those people who may wish to have a dialogue with Mr. Le Pen are simply selling short their country and their countrymen ? |
| 2 | Colleagues , I now invite er , delegates from the regions who may wish to make a contribution on the special report . |
| 3 | These tasks may be conducted by the originator or one or more of the consultants who may have expressed a willingness to help . |
| 4 | But erm on the other hand we do actually have empty spaces in our old people 's homes , so whilst you will have people who may have to move a bit , we 're not actually reducing the number of occupied beds in the whole old person 's home sector |
| 5 | Police want to interview anyone who was in the wine bar on Wednesday evening who may have seen a woman drinking with a man . |
| 6 | Detectives are trying to find two men who may have witnessed a murder in a quiet country hamlet . |
| 7 | You are all familiar with our loyal supporters , but what about those people on the fringes who may have given a donation or done something for Save The Children in the past , but never really followed it up and there are the people who are interested who think , it 's a charity I feel I ought to support . |
| 8 | We made sure that er on each occasion er we reached a figure or a set of figures that would be mutually acceptable to ask the colleague or colleagues and , and then it was registered in the minutes as a , so we could refer back to er any cases er that were similar and that then made life easier for the shop stewards er who may have had a recurrence of the same problem . |
| 9 | Another complaint was that the trial judge failed to give the jury any warning about the evidence of Zaidie and Matadial as witnesses who may have had a purpose of their own to serve or whose evidence could be tainted by an improper motive . |
| 10 | Northampton , who must win to maintain a league challenge to Orrell and Bath , the front-runners , are without Ian Hunter , who damaged a hamstring on Hong Kong Sevens duty , and Tim Rodber , the England and Army forward , who , like Underwood , has to give Service duties priority . |
| 11 | Pathfinders Tours , who should have had a steam run along the North Wales Coast last Sunday behind Princess Margaret Rose , told us that they have agreed a provision new date with British Rail of August 23rd , featuring the same locomotive . |
| 12 | They saw him as the ‘ honest broker ’ who might help negotiate a resolution of the Middle East 's problems . |
| 13 | ‘ I never saw one thing she wanted that did not sell , ’ but nonetheless insisted that this undisciplined approach was unacceptable for a customer trying to furnish a house , who might have kept a sample for six weeks only to find she could not reorder the same fabric . |
| 14 | Really to protect members of the management team who might have made a decision . |
| 15 | Michael Banks had been a man who inspired love , but even so Charles could produce quite a list of people who might have had a grudge against him . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , I think they are few in number ; they are mainly young intellectuals who might have had a career but now can not . |
| 17 | He continued to stare at the ground as she added , ‘ I 'm just wondering who might have had a motive for killing him . ’ |
| 18 | Traders who might have started a line in meal for the populace would not even think of it , knowing that the government was always ready to step in and depress the price . |
| 19 | Maybe not , but some Hollywood stars are forced to live in genuine fear of their lives , who could fail to give a shiver at the predicament of actress Sharon Gless — star of Cagney and Lacey — who was tormented for years by an obsessional lesbian fan . |
| 20 | Anybody who could sew had a collection on show and fashion ruled . |
| 21 | The investigators were disturbed by the sheer size of the movie audience , and , thinking of that statistic of 115 million people a week , they asked : ‘ When has the globe ever known the like ? ’ and ‘ Who could have imagined a population more nearly , more inclusively , unified by a single agency ? ’ |
| 22 | Table 2.2 links the number of students who could have achieved a degree award by the summer of 1987 with the number of awards actually made . |
| 23 | If the known mosaics belonged to private rather than official or religious buildings , this might indicate the presence of wealthier individuals who could have formed a town council , as might the marked concentration of late villas in the area , including that at Ilchester Mead , just outside the south-western suburbs . |
| 24 | It is sometimes noticeable that teachers who would blush to begin a lesson without the requisite number of sharp pencils and sheets of properly stencilled paper , make unrealistic assumptions about the hospitality and usefulness of the stock of the school library , or worse , the local public library branch . |
| 25 | A bunch of boozed up neverbeens who would struggle to get a draw against half a box of Subbuteo . |
| 26 | Those who would prefer to use a bank amounted to 22 per cent . |
| 27 | ‘ Who would want to do a thing like that ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Who would want to drive a car bomb at the cordon ? ’ shouted Cardiff above the sound of the storm . |
| 29 | Though not an out-and-out cheapskate , he was thought the kind of man who would try to squeeze a shilling into a pound by whatever means . |
| 30 | For the millionth time : those who would like to set a comp , stop whingeing and send your ideas in — there 's even a £10 prize if it 's chosen . |