Example sentences of "person who could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Temple and Oldham pressed at him hard — he must write one of the essays , he was the only person who could do it , they told him . |
| 2 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 3 | The King , however , undeterred by this , told the Prime Minister that he believed that he was the only person who could carry the country through' . |
| 4 | He must be more patient and brace himself up to realise that he was the only person who could tackle the present chaotic state of affairs , ' This was the fourth time the King had told MacDonald that he would not accept his resignation . |
| 5 | And most were convinced that if there was any one person who could testify to what the pop goddess looked like on waking up , it would be Jason . |
| 6 | He said that Miss Shubik , former producer of Rumpole of The Bailey , was ‘ the last person who could be likely to fix anything ’ . |
| 7 | He said that Miss Shubik , former producer of Rumpole of The Bailey , was ‘ the last person who could be likely to fix anything ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ He created him as the person who could do all the things that grown ups are not allowed to do . |
| 9 | A bit frustrating being the only person who could n't see it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After all , the word ‘ engineer ’ used to be used for the person who could drive and maintain a car , in the early days of motoring . |
| 12 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |
| 13 | For this exercise , the procedure being examined is that carried out within a section , and the procedure owner is taken to be the person who could authorise changes at this level ( eg by the introduction of pro-formats for day-to-day recording of mileage etc ) , in this case the head of each section . |
| 14 | The minstrels and people of the town ran after the bull and the person who could cut off a piece of its skin before it crossed into Derbyshire was declared the owner and King of the Music 's Bull . |
| 15 | Freddie had never liked her , but he knew at once that she might be the one person who could give him valuable assistance with his research . |
| 16 | He is the only person who could have got near the animal . ’ |
| 17 | The only person who could have let it out was the girl herself . |
| 18 | There was a pardonable note of doubt if not outright disbelief in Carrington 's voice : Lieutenant Denholm did n't look like the type of person who could fix anything . |
| 19 | She 's a wonderful lady , a wonderful mother , not simple or anything like that , just a very trusting person who could never bring herself to speak ill of anyone . ’ |
| 20 | Says another curator , ‘ Rusty may not have the vision to say , ‘ We need a Guido Reni at the National Gallery ’ he 's not the sort of person who could walk through the baroque galleries and realise they even need one , though if a curator went to him wanting to buy one , I think Rusty would certainly be supportive of the move , whereas Carter would basically have turned up his nose and said ‘ no ’ ’ . |
| 21 | A person who could do only that , and did so without any other considerations , would be , as the sociolinguist Dell Hymes ( 1971 [ 1972:277 ] ) has said , ‘ likely to be institutionalised ’ for saying all kinds of inappropriate , irrelevant , and uninteresting things . |
| 22 | She despised herself utterly for being the sort of person who could contemplate the slaughter of another woman with savage joy . |
| 23 | In fact , the kind of person who could easily keep a deformed monster alive in eternal agony . |
| 24 | She told him on the bus , nerving herself , that the children were Charlie 's but that she had undertaken of her own accord not to tell anyone else because Charlie was the sort of person who could n't be lumbered . |
| 25 | The Act does not as a matter of law preclude a court from holding that an action for negligence lies in favour of a person who could formerly have brought an action based on loss of services but in view of the current law on economic loss it seems most unlikely that such a development will occur . |
| 26 | He said he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 27 | But what they were thinking of doing is taking on another person who could file plans away in the plan room once the , once sort of the midmorning rush of visitors had been cleared in , in Hudson House reception . |
| 28 | ‘ My younger sister is the only person who could possibly take the girls if we died , and I 'm not sure that she would really want them . |
| 29 | But the only person who could tell us whether Connon was in or not is Mary Connon , and she 's dead . ’ |
| 30 | There was one person who could help . |