Example sentences of "people who could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I was one of the people who could n't do it even if I was n't lifting a heavy weight . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | People who could not bear it walked out . |
| 4 | People who could open my door were managers , agents , engineers and producers . |
| 5 | People who could live through poisonings , like Rasputin , had to be respected for their vital force . |
| 6 | In return , she offered to look after my own birds when I went away for one weekend ( it was after the war but rationing was still in force , and most people who could , kept chickens ) . |
| 7 | Most shrines were the property of people who could visit them easily , and who might find it expedient to assemble there to show their strength if they had land disputes with their neighbours . |
| 8 | Yet he is loath to part with skilled people who could prove difficult to replace come the upturn . |
| 9 | For these deaths we tried to identify and then interview the people who could tell us most about the last twelve months of the lives of the people who died . |
| 10 | Since 1989 nearly a million summonses have been issued to people who could not pay their water bills . |
| 11 | There was also an increased emphasis on productivity and better educational standards , which drew attention to the existence of people who could not look after themselves or sustain a normal education . |
| 12 | The relief of an interlude with one of the handful of people who could understand his feelings made him weep , which embarrassed them both . |
| 13 | To the snobbish traveller coach tours are a subject of derision , but since the inter-war period when coach touring really took off , thousands of people who could not normally afford to travel have seen countries other than their own through the comparative cheapness of coach travel . |
| 14 | They are certain there must be a number of people who could benefit . |
| 15 | But in the hands of people who could not add two and two together , or calculate that the weekly instalments on the dining room suite , the washing machine , the television set , the refrigerator came to most of the whole weekly income , with little over for rent , food , clothes , and every other necessity , it was practically the root of all evil from which could grow debts , family quarrels , rent arrears , eviction and even worse disaster . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | Dear people who could hardly write for arthritis , who had to send aged husbands staggering out in the frost to find something suitable , people whom I had hardly seen and had exchanged no more than the shiest of glances were sending me pictures of daffodils , valleys , seas and mountains . |
| 18 | One of these groups consisted of people who could feel the peak experience , and the members of the other group could not . |
| 19 | Other people who could provide corroborative or extra information were interviewed . |
| 20 | The need was to pick out those people who could skilfully and accurately follow instructions and do low-level clerical and administrative jobs for the metropolitan country . |
| 21 | Keeping on the go can become a habit and there are very many people who could manage to let up for ten minutes or more in the course of most days , with a bit of careful planning . |
| 22 | People who could n't tell Weber from Webern went along to cheer their favourite tenor and be seen with their bums on a fifty-quid seat . |
| 23 | Once when I was young , innocent and unaware of eating amnesia , ‘ weighers-wilt ’ ( ‘ I 'll just take a guess at this — looks like two ounces … ! ’ ) and other related disorders , I became so alarmed about all the people who could n't seem to shed weight on 1,000 calories a day that I interviewed many of them , carefully selected a group of twenty of the most baffling and genuine cases , and incarcerated them in a health farm for a week . |
| 24 | ‘ So they thought that a lot of the people who could n't go to Knebworth would maybe come to the shows if we did them in London — Earls Court and places like that . |
| 25 | True , DF 118 's predilection for improvisation results in one yawn-inducing instrumental howler entitled ‘ Preacher Dub ’ ( foolishly placed at the start of the set ) , and they 're daft enough to return to clichéd ranting on '60 Seconds ’ ; but by the time proceedings close with ‘ Chainsaw ’ , they 're looking like people who could take on more established named and win hands down . |
| 26 | A month later you refined this argument by identifying ‘ 40 people who could change the face of Britain ’ . |
| 27 | He would only read out short prepared statements , and would neither comment on them , nor give journalists any access to the people who could . |
| 28 | The Radio 2 Arts Programme devoted two whole hours to the singing of people who could not sing . |
| 29 | Clearly there were many people who could n't afford to escape the heat of the city . |
| 30 | What was he doing , acting the liberal again , and in front of country people who could n't be expected to comprehend modern attitudes ? |