Example sentences of "who could [adv] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Major 's room for manoeuvre was limited by the loss of Mr Chris Patten , who could well have become Home Secretary , and two other rising stars : the two Treasury Ministers Mr Francis Maude and Mr John Maples . |
| 2 | Rob Wainwright , who could well have picked up another four caps this season , has recovered from an Achilles tendon operation and hopes to turn out for the home XV , while David Hunter is at full-back for Selkirk . |
| 3 | His reputation became such that the School began to attract the attention of those who could well have afforded to send their children to boarding schools . |
| 4 | And let's think about it , there are many people in this county who receive home help service , for instance , who could well afford to pay these charges , and we in the Liberal Democrats see that we can augment the service with the income we get from these charges . |
| 5 | The Act does not as a matter of law preclude a court from holding that an action for negligence lies in favour of a person who could formerly have brought an action based on loss of services but in view of the current law on economic loss it seems most unlikely that such a development will occur . |
| 6 | The sporting authorities , who could easily have postponed the race , tergiversated : as much by habit as from reason . |
| 7 | He records Smart 's statement that he ‘ must have finished an unfortunate life in jail had it not been for the good nature of a Friend , who could not bear to see his tears ’ . |
| 8 | It was somewhat similar with me ; the war was on , albeit far away , and I was missing it ; patriotism and duty did enter into the picture but I was chafing at the bit like Old Dobbin who could not bear to stay away from a fire ! |
| 9 | Quite how a man who could not bear to hurt a living thing after seeing the damage his childhood air-rifle did to a starling could serve as defence secretary is something of an enigma . |
| 10 | The 14 respondents ( 46% ) who could not decide included the 10 informants who said they sometimes read SF . |
| 11 | ‘ I was struck by two things — the refusal of battered victims to give in to despair , those who could not speak gave me a thumbs up , and the insistence of sorrowing parents and girlfriends that ‘ we 'll never let them win ’ , ’ he said . |
| 12 | These meetings were originally suggested during the 1860s as a solution for visitors who could not manage to visit individual homes regularly enough . |
| 13 | It was a large , rather forbidding and gloomy building , called Battersby Grammar School , and it was on the fringe of that decayed , desolate , once-grand grey fringe that surrounds the centres of most cities ; the houses in this area , large and terraced and of some dignity , had been long abandoned by the middle classes , and were now occupied by families who could not afford to live anywhere else . |
| 14 | They were now thirty-odd miles away from the Manchester slums where they had been brought up , a distance that put them beyond the range of mobility of their families , who could not afford to visit them . |
| 15 | ‘ No one … ’ began Sally-Anne passionately , thinking of all that she had seen since arriving in Vetch Street — the poor creatures in Dr Neil 's surgery , and the even poorer ones who could not afford to go there — and of Dr Neil 's own selflessness letting people off their bills , so that only the small income he still received from an aunt 's legacy allowed him to keep going at all , when he could have been revelling with Stair . |
| 16 | NEW regulations forced on the Government will give tens of thousands of European students who could not afford to come to college in Britain the right to apply for discretionary grants to finance their studies . |
| 17 | The Rector , who could not afford to keep up the grounds , had no need of such a large house himself , and Charlotte decided to rent it . |
| 18 | The assumption was that insurance would be paid only by those who could afford it while those who could not afford to pay would be exempt . |
| 19 | But , of course , the £50 deposit , at a time when the annual wage was less than £500 , was a powerful deterrent to all but the wealthiest families and remained so until the Baldwin Fund agreed to put up the money for children without guarantors or for foster parents who could not afford to pay . |
| 20 | However , parents who could not afford to pay for the meals were to be in no way penalized . |
| 21 | With a rolling network we would have been there live to provide them with information of direct concern to all their lives — people , incidentally , who could not afford to pay for a service from any other source . |
| 22 | You agreed that a tiered membership structure ( with stepped rates ) was valuable in enabling those who could not afford to contribute above this lower rate to continue doing so . |
| 23 | Police say the dog could have been used in a fight or dumped by an uncaring owner who could not afford to have the animal registered under dangerous dog legislation . |
| 24 | The trust said the prices would generally amount to about two-thirds of their market value and those who could not afford to buy them could rent through a housing association . |
| 25 | The trust said prices would be about two-thirds of market value and those who could not afford to buy could rent them through a housing association . |
| 26 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |
| 27 | The availability of legal aid to those unable to afford to pursue their legal rights in the courts made a practical reality of the access to justice to many who could not have afforded to do so . |
| 28 | The wait was agonising for Chris who could not help hoping that she might be about to see John and Angela again . |
| 29 | He presented the music box , which was received with every expression of pleasure by Isobel , and the monkey to Dorothy , who could not help laughing when she saw it , because it was so typical of a craze for stuffed animals amongst the girls she had met in Tollemarche . |
| 30 | On a patch where the rough surface of brickwork was exposed , someone had vomited , probably a passing drunk whose sense of propriety , demanding privacy , had deterred him from being sick in the street ; or a returning resident who could not wait to climb the few steps to the communal toilet on the first half-landing . |