Example sentences of "who could [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes … |
| 2 | Governor Clinton , in other words , is a man who could well be accused of wanting power so badly that he is , quite literally , prepared to kill for it . |
| 3 | And Weir will have to be in top form to get a decision over the Dublin champion who could well be his bogey and the host Association 's best bet to win an Irish title this weekend . |
| 4 | The most genuinely modest personality it is my pleasure to know , George had to be bullied by a number of us to sit for his sculpture by Archie Forrest who could well be considered as adept with clay as he is with paint . |
| 5 | And , in true dramatic irony , the most apt piece of rhetoric comes from Rita who could well be summing up the everlasting appeal of the Russell classic as she tries to tempt Frank out to an evening at the local theatre : |
| 6 | Some he 'd learnt off the Frenchman — whose name is such a household name it escapes me — Marcel Marceau — and Jack Birkett ( now known as The Great Orlando ) was Harlequin , who could also be Columbine . |
| 7 | These last were elected by all ratepayers including women , who could also be elected ; in addition to , electors had a cumulative vote with as many votes as there were members of the local board . |
| 8 | Another analysis of a sample of sixteen English parishes has shown that in only one case did the number of males married between 1721 and 1750 who could also be found in both the baptism and burial records exceed 50 per cent ( in that case it was 51 per cent ) . |
| 9 | They did , it was true , have an agitated fit of booing and hissing , but this was , M. Grimaud explained , an expression of spontaneous disapproval of Picasso who could just be made out , small brown face under black beret at the other side of the arena . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The balance of power is also unequal in that GPs exert pressure for compulsory admission of women who could otherwise be admitted informally . |
| 13 | Some people , both in academic circles and within the profession , think that a single profession , i.e. that of an advocate who could both be consulted directly and have rights of audience in all courts , might be preferable . |
| 14 | By using the term ‘ evangelical ’ the leaders were purposefully excluding Unitarians who could easily be sacrificed in order to get Methodists . |
| 15 | ENDURING Coronation Street character Ken Barlow was first written into the soap as a make-weight who could easily be ditched . |
| 16 | most of the guerrillas were civilians , who could easily be identified ; |
| 17 | Freud considers the example of girls who crowd around a singer , or pianist , who could easily be jealous of one another . |
| 18 | Red Hot And Dance is a quasi-record of that day : an uneasy cocktail of blipvert public information and fairly lifeless live shots of acts who could loosely be classified ‘ dance ’ . |
| 19 | John Major is a likeable man , who could rarely be accused of arrogance , but , from a position of about ten parliamentary seats in Scotland , his remarks were , if not arrogant , at least cheeky . |
| 20 | Mr Dixon , who could theoretically be imprisoned for 120 years , faces maximum fines of only $5.75m . |
| 21 | The survey method would have the advantage that no one who could reasonably be described as unemployed would be excluded and no one who was clearly employed would be included . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Hence , provided the independent contractor was one who could reasonably be entrusted with such work and the hotelier did what he could to ensure that the work was done properly , the lift company as independent contractors will alone be liable . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Since the Great War , 1914–18 , it has been practiced by wage-earners , suffering from long periods of unemployment and underemployment , so drastic that it seemed abject folly to produce children who could neither be adequately nourished nor sufficiently educated to secure a satisfactory livelihood . |
| 27 | No — their secrets were first revealed to curious scientific men , to apothecaries and simples-collectors , to people who could now be called botanists , and such was Evan Roberts . |
| 28 | Frans Hals had painted portraits of girls who could only be described as plain , but something lively and piquant redeemed them . |
| 29 | I was on my way towards the main door of the clubhouse when I saw a cluster of men who could only be journalists . |
| 30 | By the beginning of 1939 , he saw only the unpleasant alternatives of uninterrupted decay or some form of authoritarian political leadership which might arrest it artificially , and exactly a year later he described the fatal weaknesses of Western democracy , and how the progress of industrialization was creating an apathetic citizenry — the kind of people who could only be aroused by despots like Hitler . |