Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [modal v] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are going up to senior positions movement is essential ; even people who may plateau out at middle management will have done a lot of different jobs for three , four , five years . |
| 2 | Unlike one of those characters whom Charles Dickens described as taking ‘ Night Walks ’ in The Uncommercial Traveller , the well-to-do , clever , suitably married man who Should society sit by and allow ‘ characters ’ who chose to be loose with their money to get away with it ? |
| 3 | A child who suffers abuse at the hand of a stranger can expect comfort and protection from his or her family ; incest victims often have no-one to whom to turn — those who should support have been the cause of suffering . ’ |
| 4 | The corporation and the rural district council were in dispute about who should rehouse them . |
| 5 | This was the place where he had almost bowled Anna over many months before and where he enjoyed riding the horse at breakneck speed , disregarding anyone else who might chance to be on the path . |
| 6 | ‘ There are now about 500 people alive , ’ says Sotheby 's chief executive officer , Michael Ainslie , ‘ who might fork out more than $25 million for a work of art . ’ |
| 7 | Cutis managing director Roger Curtis said : ‘ We make and provide a particular type of chair but had had difficulty finding a local supplier who could manufacturer them for us . |
| 8 | The girl who could Dream was remote , a fantastical character . |
| 9 | Perhaps the only other Seniors ' player who could stymie a Trevino rampage next year is Jack Nicklaus — if he wants to , that is . |
| 10 | These investors were not rich entrepreneurs who could aford the loss , the court was told , but ordinary savers who wanted , and were promised , a good return on their savings . |
| 11 | Crying out " " Who dare disowne the Pretender ? ! " " … drinking Dr Sacheverell 's health and insulting the Meeting House " . |
| 12 | ‘ Do I look like the sort of person who would glory in anything ? ’ |
| 13 | At one time , the apple trees were proving a great temptation to young men who would shin over the wall at night . |
| 14 | Enter climber-turned-platform-builder Mark Cole ( opposite ) , who would shin up the chosen tree , attach a climbing rope , and then accompany Mike on each subsequent climb . |
| 15 | His style of preaching contrasted greatly with the average clergyman of the day who would discourse drowsily on the virtues of doing good . |
| 16 | I am certain that your wife is not the only one who would prof it from its wider deployment . |
| 17 | He might radiate power and control but he did n't strike her as the kind of man who would number nursing skills among his repertoire . |
| 18 | They are making their way towards its head , preceded by a domestique who will elbow a path through the bikes . |
| 19 | ‘ With the exception of Orcadai , Suragai and Yoruba the Y'frike , you are the complete assembly of those who will officer the reconnaissance of the Alan country . |
| 20 | Can I , who will second it ? . |
| 21 | A wind of change has been blowing around Windsor Park over the past 12 months and Campbell is now regarded as just another new player who will breeze in . |
| 22 | Unhappily for Fussell , his book 's true usefulness may lie in its future value to trash historians , who will pore ecstatically through the kitsch menus and gruesome adverts he has compiled . |
| 23 | She is a friendly and helpful hostess who will book horse-riding , golf and fishing for her guests . |
| 24 | Aim for a list that give the widest possible choice and price range ; whilst there will be friends and colleagues who will club together to buy you a present , others will want to buy something on their own . |
| 25 | In times of full employment , employers are more willing to take on disabled people of all kinds and there is a direct economic incentive to ensure that those who can work do . |
| 26 | A man who goes in for abduction does n't merit explanations , and neither , ’ she went on , warming to her subject , ‘ does anyone who can purloin other people 's property , quite deliberately and without conscience , have any right to spout morals at me . ’ |
| 27 | She said : ‘ We would view with great concern any policy that limited the availability of families who can parent children . ’ |
| 28 | The faces of the many others remain with me , the bored and the bewildered ; those who lost the battle at Book 2 but who are confronting Book 4 ‘ because it is there ’ ; those who can mouth Book 4 to the teacher 's satisfaction but do not understand the concepts in it ; those who know Book 4 by heart already . |
| 29 | But the only , I think the only course he 'll pass is mucking about course , let's see who can muck about for the next three years the most . |
| 30 | How do we turn the people who would do semi-skilled jobs on machines into people who can programme numerically-controlled machines to perform that job more effectively and with much greater levels of productivity . |