Example sentences of "who could [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone who could was playing this confidence trick on his neighbour — a sophisticated pretence that one 's family was , or had been , one of the noblest in the land . |
| 2 | His brother Gavin frets him , and he has a longing for Gavin 's wife , together with a more urgent one for a teacher at the school , Alison Houston , who could be felt to lead him on a bit but does n't want to have a ‘ relationship ’ with him . |
| 3 | Another senior personnel manager said : ‘ It would not be a moral judgment , but we have to consider the practicalities of appointing someone who could be off work for long periods . ’ |
| 4 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 5 | A central figure in Dickstein 's essay is Henry James , a great critic , who could be subtly descriptive , elucidatory , analytical , and judgemental within the same piece of writing . |
| 6 | This would only be possible if she had intensive 24-hour cover : if she could employ carers both night and day who could be flexible enough to adapt to her needs rather than vice versa . |
| 7 | They must disown the action through writing to all members who could be affected . |
| 8 | She wanted now , at any price , to be able to sit in the rooms of young women who could be her friends and not feel that she was travelling in territory stranger than the night caves that were Fenna 's home . |
| 9 | The only type of receiver who could be appointed was a receiver of rates who has no control over assets and no management control which a receiver normally has . |
| 10 | To follow Jill but not to be her successor ( who could be ! ) it is hoped to appoint an FYT Administrative and Resources Officer — see Sits Vac for details . |
| 11 | The next day belonged to Devon Malcolm , a man who came into the Test team a few months earlier against Australia with a reputation for being able to bowl extremely quickly but rarely accurately , who , with less than perfect eyesight , was a total rabbit with the bat , and who could be a joke as a fielder . |
| 12 | They respected him , too , of course , as one of the greatest players since the war , and knew that , as a top-flight batsman and a bowler who could be both slow and fast-medium , he would not be asking them to do things he had not already achieved himself . |
| 13 | British restaurant cooking had been despaired of after fifteen years of siege conditions until the counter-attack of The Good Food Guide , founded in 1951 by Raymond Postgate , a pioneering bon vivant , and compiled by himself , his friends and any members of the public who could be bothered to write in with their recommendations ( one who did was a lion tamer ) . |
| 14 | Who could be so abominable and so foul and so devoid of proper awe that he might heave and push and grunt and pant above her parted legs ? |
| 15 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 16 | ‘ Who could be so abominable and so foul and so devoid of proper awe that he might heave and push and grunt and pant above her parted legs ? ’ |
| 17 | He said that Miss Shubik , former producer of Rumpole of The Bailey , was ‘ the last person who could be likely to fix anything ’ . |
| 18 | He said that Miss Shubik , former producer of Rumpole of The Bailey , was ‘ the last person who could be likely to fix anything ’ . |
| 19 | Groups of Muslim demonstrators retaliated by attacking the nearby Holiday Inn with small arms and grenades in an effort to dislodge several snipers who could be seen firing from the hotel 's upper floors . |
| 20 | Peter Ustinov introduced a very grand programme of opera and ballet , asking who could be better qualified than himself since he was ‘ conceived in the one city ( St Petersburg ) and born in the other ( London ) ! ’ |
| 21 | Or to turn the question around , who could be found to marry him ? |
| 22 | Jack did not like strangers in the house , so there was no regular charwoman , only the obliging person who could be summoned at intervals when Jack was away . |
| 23 | It was shabby but civilised , alive with history but inhabited also by living poets and thinkers who could be found squatting on the slotted metal floors of the stacks , or arguing pleasantly at the turning of the stair . |
| 24 | Roland was interviewed , out of courtesy he decided , but the job went to Fergus Wolff , whose track record was less consistent , who could be brilliant or bathetic , but never dull and right , who was loved by his teachers whom he exasperated and entranced , where Roland excited no emotion more passionate than solid approbation . |
| 25 | We just wanted four individuals who could be collectively known as something normal . |
| 26 | Who could be sure that it had been positioned correctly , that the first thick black line was exactly three feet and six inches from the green tiles of the floor ? |
| 27 | There is no reason why the biology teacher or the RE teacher should be competent to do it : there is a strong case for peripatetic experts who could be shared between groups of schools . |
| 28 | The Grade V test was , therefore , taken by a number of students who had no particular interest in the theory of music , but who could be pushed through the test provided that they could learn the requirements and carry them out without too much in the way of understanding . |
| 29 | ( None of the other photographs shared this particular composition , though some were of personalities who could be thought of as ‘ hunky ’ men — Philip Schofield , for instance . ) |
| 30 | Issues of concern were : how far should workers get involved in discussions with social fund officers about individual cases ; how actively should workers support individual applications in view of the fact that there is a limited budget and therefore a limit to the number of people who could be helped ; and should bureaux help social fund officers to set priorities between groups of claimants ? |