Example sentences of "[art] politician who [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The politician who could provide them won friends . |
| 2 | In what are often highly technical arguments where tone matters a lot , he sounds like a politician who would join the ERM as soon as practicable — possibly by the end of next year — just as Sir Geoffrey , Mr Heseltine and Mr Lawson would . |
| 3 | In what are often highly technical arguments where tone matters a lot , he sounds like a politician who would join the ERM as soon as practicable — possibly by the end of next year — just as Sir Geoffrey , Mr Heseltine and Mr Lawson would . |
| 4 | Mitterrand may try to appoint as Prime Minister a politician who will make it particularly difficult for the new majority formed by UDF and RPR to work together . |
| 5 | Would you believe a politician who can find so many jobs out of his back pocket ? |
| 6 | Only periodically does Mr Tebbit seem to have looked to Powell as a politician who could express some of his gnawing doubts about the Heath government . |
| 7 | A politician who could offer a friend 's relative one of the better appointments could consider that he had rendered a signal service , which he was rarely slow to point out . |
| 8 | The right hon. Member for Worcester has said in characteristically self-deprecating phrases that he does not have a great desire to be remembered but I am sure that , given his record , he will take it as an accolade to be thought of , in H. L. Mencken 's happy phrase , as a politician who could sit on the fence and have both ears to the ground at the same time . |
| 9 | And the other reason they do n't want to turn up is primarily because they do know that we have compulsory purchase powers and the planning — the paper put forward by the Chief Planning Officer today was a vindication of wage for a good many years , a good many months rather , that we do have compulsory purchase powers and we are able to use them and it was specifically asked at the Panel today , by both Monty Finnist and Sir Monty Finnist and Tony Christopher , why does n't the City Council market this site and use its compulsory purchase powers and that 's one question to address tomorrow as a politician who could make that decision . |