Example sentences of "one who could " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she walked from the post office empty handed , she pretended to be an American tourist , one who could leave in a few days , one for whom the trip would soon be nothing more than a few travel stories and postcards . |
| 2 | An American soldier gave us each a balloon and told us that the winner would be the one who could soonest burst the balloon by blowing it up beyond its stretching point . |
| 3 | Pertwee 's the only one who could put up with Hatton for a moment , but no one 's willing to come out with it . |
| 4 | Colborne was pulling the other way : he said there was a social revolution going on outside the palace gates ; he believed young people needed leadership as they never had needed it before , and the Prince was the one who could lead them . |
| 5 | He invited a non-native English speaker , one who could cast his net across several disciplines and one who would agree to talk freely from notes rather than the traditional script . |
| 6 | Mr Yeltsin is its best known member and probably the only one who could give it party discipline and a distinctive ideology . |
| 7 | He was the only one who could manage her . |
| 8 | But he always wanted to be the one in control , the top dog , to be the one who could take off on a whim and relate his volatility to democratic individual freedom to do as one pleased — a special privilege to which only Americans were supposed to be entitled . |
| 9 | ‘ The only one who could not make it was a nuclear physicist ! ’ |
| 10 | Reluctantly Tom , the only one who could cook , handed the wheel over to Pugwash . |
| 11 | I know of no one who could spare her that , who could make a tasteful picture , but You . |
| 12 | By June he had tried seven different prospective designers without finding one who could give him what he wanted , but was emphatic that he could not work at a distance with Hanns or other Johannesburg artists , ‘ so that 's that ’ . |
| 13 | Butler could n't adapt to his new defensive role , and Chapman began to look around for a more solid defender , not necessarily a player with much technical skill , but one who could clear accurately under pressure , feeding the ball to an inside-forward . |
| 14 | For instance , he said that the expression ‘ by hook or by crook ’ came from the period of Charles II when there were two judges called Hook and Crook and ‘ a man of straw ’ he discovered , was one who could be brought to bear false witness — recognisable by the straw in his shoes . |
| 15 | ‘ You are the only one who could possibly make me happy . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As everyone is close to the ground anyway they will not hurt themselves , except possibly the last one who could fall on the floor . |
| 18 | ‘ To have a go-between , one who could move freely betwixt Tower and Westminster , betwixt my sons and myself , would greatly relieve my concern for their welfare . ’ |
| 19 | He was not the only one who could break signed treaties . |
| 20 | The priest was the only one who could declare a person to be healed from their leprosy . |
| 21 | The only one who could pay such a debt was a perfect person because a sinful person would be unacceptable to God . |
| 22 | But at the end of the second day of this Test showdown , Miandad was the one who could sit and chuckle in the dressing room , whatever the sporting public think of him . |
| 23 | If Paparemborde manages to upset the vote , the Secretary of the Federation , Bernard Lepasset , is the one who could benefit — though not for long . |
| 24 | On the other hand , something — many things — went wrong to turn a team who used to win virtually every match into one who could not win any . |
| 25 | ‘ Rich was the only one who could get round her , ’ Rhianon said of a particularly fierce aunt . |
| 26 | True enough , Jaq had known the secret essence of the matter ever since his application to the Officio Assassinorum was fulfilled — his request for an Assassin with previous experience of a Genestealer-infested world , and one who could pose as a sophisticated mistress . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Then it was as if his eyes were speaking and Jezrael was the one who could n't fit in , a child among adults . |
| 29 | ‘ Of course he 's not the only one who could recruit staff . |
| 30 | I will not list Frances ’ numerous qualities but content myself with saying that I know of no one who could fill her position as well as she … ’ |