Example sentences of "people who can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most guitarists know people who can outplay them in some way and so most register somewhere on the meek and self-effacing scale . |
| 2 | In such an organization you feel hemmed in by people who can refuse you permission to do something or who are only waiting to jump all over you if you appear to be taking the initiative , or achieving something which even they may recognize as being highly desirable , in ‘ the wrong way ’ . |
| 3 | Ken is one of the few people who can stun me into being ungrammatical . |
| 4 | Kate Garner 's brief was to locate the humour in their characters , creating portraits of this select band of people who can trip us into laughter . |
| 5 | He was not predicting the end of American , the nation 's largest airline , but Mr Crandall said changing economics may eventually force AMR to sell parts of American to people who can make it profitable . |
| 6 | Having access to influential people and people who can give you information is helpful . |
| 7 | Well , I 'm joined by a few people who can give you some clues on guarantees . |
| 8 | Similarly , unemployed people who can show they have used their time constructively , in study or voluntary work for example , will be able to match themselves to jobs demanding the qualities this demonstrates — initiative , hard work , flexibility , reliability , etc. — and possibly pick up some useful skills and experience at the same time . |
| 9 | People who can allow themselves to know about their envy at least give themselves a chance of attempting to handle it relatively wisely . |
| 10 | For those people who can sever their own feet and lurch away , they got it round the neck later from a special breed of Tightness that lives in the baskets of flowers up lamp posts . |
| 11 | Is it any wonder that the only people who can afford their services are rich companies , millionaires and those who are lucky enough to get legal aid ? |
| 12 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 13 | Another objection is that jobs will be lost and certainly that would be a serious objection but it 's a speechless one , of course , people who can afford it will still ride and will still employ the same people who are now hunt servants er to look after their horses and themselves and those who ca n't afford horses will continue no doubt to enjoy the spectacle er , that argument does n't hold water and the other objection of course er is that er it would mean the hounds were killed , but since I understand er hunting people kill their hounds anyway when they get too old to keep up , er I think er we can dismiss that argument and leave it to them er to see that the hounds are decently dealt with . |
| 14 | The beauty of these is ( a ) they require very little labour from the person indulging in them : you leave that kind of thing to the toiling masseuse or sinewy aromatherapist ( b ) they 're prettily packaged and attractive to use ( c ) they often involve other people who can supply your spiritual needs by becoming a confessor to you while you 're on the slab/under the thumb/ getting oiled . |
| 15 | Any artist should seek out those people who can get them closer to a record company . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You know , the headmaster is quite right , you ca n't tell a teacher what you 're going to do … for your own good some time son you 're going to have to learn the lesson that there are people who can force you to do things and you 're going to have to do them and you 've got no choice . ’ |
| 17 | And the people who can play them are very clever indeed . |
| 18 | We 'll do it ourselves , although the council are the only people who can put them up anyone can take them down , |
| 19 | Although still some months short of his fifteenth birthday , Richard had already discovered from experience that there is a critical relationship between the piquancy of a secret and the number of people who can keep it . |
| 20 | They 're the only people who can keep anything open out in the sand , and not be closed down by the gangcults . |
| 21 | Doctors are the only people who can bury their mistakes and all that . |
| 22 | Its leaders and pastors have long been the only people who can say what they think ; its press , although censored , is freer than the state media and its synods and congresses are the only places where people can openly discuss the problems in the country . |
| 23 | Not images , but people who can direct them or lead them , channel their energies or expand their scope are what they need . |
| 24 | ‘ By the way , I checked on their story for the night Sir Ralph died ; both Sir Fulke and Rastani were absent from the Tower and there are people who can guarantee their whereabouts . ’ |