Example sentences of "[det] [Wh pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yardley , a second- or third-change bowler throughout his career , was rightly proud to be one of the very few who could claim to have dismissed Bradman thrice in Test matches . |
| 2 | A slim , wiry youth , he was one of the few who could claim a ‘ middle-class ’ upbringing . |
| 3 | Paisley , one of the few who could grasp the larger issues brought into focus by the assassination attempt at Tully-West , unfortunately was absent at Westminster . |
| 4 | Elena 's greed was resented by the privileged few who could both afford the fees and knew who to approach to get permission . |
| 5 | As for talkin' , I would say there are few who could talk better . |
| 6 | ‘ These are almost all the people who are here , except for a few who could n't walk , but I 'm having them moved to the ward nearest here . ’ |
| 7 | By the time of Waterloo , for those few who could afford the coaches , passenger travel was perhaps four times as fast as it had been in 1750 between major centres and twice as fast elsewhere . |
| 8 | Amongst officers and boards there were some who could not , or would not , relinquish old attitudes : ‘ never mind what the blue book said , this is what we are going to do ’ . |
| 9 | There were some who could never bring themselves to attempt to take a dispassionate look at the reasons why American policy-makers ( and above all Eisenhower ) should have acted as they did . |
| 10 | Alan Ross was another who could not recover his earlier infatuation with the area , even though he still occasionally visited it in the company of Minton or Vaughan . |
| 11 | The officers comprising that who could n't agree on its er on its on its content . |
| 12 | I mean , some of these who could be passed round to see , to get the size , but some of these , in fact the grand total does not equal by the teams needs , in courses that 's why they are unsuccessful . |
| 13 | But in the twelfth century , by and large , whoever could enter the ranks of the privileged clergy could hope for a bishopric ; and the ranks of the privileged clergy were open to all who could find patronage , whether because of birth or talent or good luck . |
| 14 | Strongly opposing the maintenance of an essentially arbitrary general retirement-age , the Committee recommended that the test for engagement or retirement should be capacity , not age , and that all who could give effective service should have the chance to continue in work if they so wished . |
| 15 | With grants available to all who could gain entry to university or polytechnic , initial teaching training courses came to be filled , in part , with young people whose ‘ A ’ level grades were not high enough to gain entrance on conventional university course . |
| 16 | ‘ Self-help ’ through mutual aid institutions remained crucial to the survival of all who could achieve it , with most such institutions expanding steadily . |
| 17 | The first practical measures of educational extension were instituted during the 1850s and 1860s when London degrees were opened to all who could pass an " external " examination , but it was only towards the end of the 1860s that an emphasis on English language , literature , and history became an important feature of the process of extension . |
| 18 | What sort of creature was she after all who could feel only loathing for a woman who had suffered so ? |
| 19 | There are many players who might win the Masters , many who could . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For a child without reading books can not learn to read adequately , and I have met many children without reading books and many who could not read . |
| 22 | It was not many who could make a speech like Lugh . |
| 23 | But at 1–60 a bottle ( half pint ) there 's not many who could afford to get scuttered on it . |
| 24 | In the Revolution landowners had disposed of large quantities of farm equipment to those who could afford it . |
| 25 | He taught her the words of the Angelus , the Hail Mary ; though he said that he could not quite use all the words himself literally , but he respected those who could , and he did not think there was anything in it which made Mary take the place of her Son . |
| 26 | Those who could n't read the words made them up , and Tich , who 'd lost his glasses , settled for singing ‘ Widecombe Fair ’ instead , coughing , spluttering and relishing his last night out . |
| 27 | The Act divided holders of British passport into two categories — those who had ‘ substantial connection ’ with the UK , who could enter Britain without restriction , who were almost all white , and those who could not . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | The Foreign Office minister , Mr Francis Maude dismissed the Opposition 's bitter criticism of last week 's deportations , saying it came from those who could stand on the sidelines wringing their hands and decrying what was done . |
| 30 | Those who could not escape met their horrific , futile deaths there , ’ they said . |