Example sentences of "who could [adv] be [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is led to ask whether it is the attention to and general nature of such claims that first needs explaining , especially when it appears that they derive from such a specific social group , namely those in a western academic sub-culture who could arguably be said to have their own interests at stake . |
| 2 | In the fourth century , Athenian democracy was curtailed in ways harder to resist than a Hyperbolus , who could simply be got rid of : the institutionalized power of the men who administered the various state funds grew in the course of the fourth century , and as such people got above themselves Athens became a less democratic place than it had been in the fifth century . |
| 3 | Most were casual or self-employed workers who could not be made to retire , and many were also small property-holders — an important factor which also made their position stronger for continuing at work . |
| 4 | In the case containing the arrow is a silver chain mail bag , containing ten silver shillings , the traditional ransom paid to medieval archers who could not be trusted to return it . |
| 5 | On the British side of the Atlantic there were many who tended to dismiss the Americans as moralizers who would be generous with advice and opinions but who could not be trusted to back up their words with actions . |
| 6 | They already knew that he was a man who could not be trusted to preserve the Union and to safeguard the social superiority of Protestant culture . |
| 7 | It is not surprising that at independence most governments identified the international companies from the former colonial power as potential agents of neo-colonialism , who could not be trusted to operate with the interests of African countries at heart . |
| 8 | Working with a group of trainee student teachers and a class of 6 year olds , he began a graphic story of a fictional medieval knight living in a castle who could not be bothered to lock the postern gate one dark , cold , rainy night . |
| 9 | Folly nodded , trying not to show her distaste , even though she privately thought that any man who could n't be bothered to remember his wife 's birthday did n't deserve to be married . |
| 10 | No doubt some of the same ‘ gentlemen ’ who could n't be bothered to remember their wives ' birthdays were equally glad to be relieved of the responsibility of remembering their mistresses ' . |
| 11 | I just wasted a whole day to see someone who could n't be bothered to turn up . |
| 12 | I tell the DI why ; I tell him about two more betrayals ; about the commanding officer who had let men die to cover up his own inadequacy ( or at least Andy believed he had , which was all that mattered ) , and I tell him about the locum doctor who could n't be bothered to attend a patient and then , when he eventually did pay a visit , just assumed her pain was something trivial . |
| 13 | I was her oafish idiot of a son who could n't be expected to make a success of anything — not even of his marriage . ’ |
| 14 | What was he doing , acting the liberal again , and in front of country people who could n't be expected to comprehend modern attitudes ? |
| 15 | A late election will also be acceptable where at a crucial time one of the signatories or a signatory 's agent was unavailable for unforeseeable reasons ( such as a serious illness ) and there was no one else who could reasonably be expected to stand in the agent 's shoes . |
| 16 | He told himself that he was the last man who could reasonably be expected to advise or reassure on the problems of pregnancy and he sensed that Rickards 's unhappiness at his wife 's absence went deeper than missing her company . |
| 17 | It is interesting to note that many fast bowlers during the 1920s and 1930s employed a long-off when bowling to Woolley , who was also , of course , a very useful slow left-arm bowler , who could probably be entrusted to get through 10 overs at reasonable cost . |
| 18 | Nicholson , who could often be found reading cartoon comics at this time of day , was pacing the untidy office like a caged lion , his face and his thick neck suffused ugly puce above the none-too-white collar of his shirt . |
| 19 | He became an exhaustingly energetic toddler , however , who could never be persuaded to keep still , even for a cuddle or a story . |
| 20 | It was a relief not to have to soothe and propitiate an experienced detective who could hardly be expected to welcome a commander from the new C1 squad intruding on his patch . |
| 21 | He argued that , on the one hand , reproduction is mainly practised by peasants and others of low rank , who could hardly be expected to show much interest in whether they produced male or female children . |