Example sentences of "those [pron] could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 In the absence of official sanction , however , the ground already covered in the development of school-based consultative in-service programmes may itself offer the wanted training opportunities for special needs post-holders and those who could give them support in their turn .
2 The private sector , however , had no intention of extending coverage to those who could offer it little or no return on their balance sheet .
3 Further on were those who were compelling to listen to ; and above them were those who could make you laugh , too .
4 Wo n't be too many places he 'd be remembered these days , all those who could remember him are dead , or trying to die .
5 Yet there is no trace of arrogance in his writings or pronouncements , and for those who could track him down , there was a man who was more than ready to mull over the ideas of lesser mortals .
6 Their value in battle , as shields behind which the knights could shelter before they launched their charge , ensured their continued employment by those who could afford them — notably Henry II of England .
7 Huddle had told him about the rogue , turning up in his garish garments and standing on the church steps , offering to sell pardons to those who could afford them .
8 In the Revolution landowners had disposed of large quantities of farm equipment to those who could afford it .
9 The assumption was that insurance would be paid only by those who could afford it while those who could not afford to pay would be exempt .
10 Charles was described as temperate in his consumption of both food and drink ( in an age and culture where gluttony and heavy drinking were often regularly practised by those who could afford it ) , and particularly careful when it came to alcohol .
11 Milk was not greatly used by villagers , partially because of the poor condition of the animals , but buffalo curd was considered a treat by those who could afford it .
12 At the upper end of the scale came those shops which bewildered members of the public — those who could afford it all — with an astonishing range of merchandise : Dutch ratteens , duffles , frizes , beaver coatings , kerseymeres , forrest cloths , German serges , Wilton stuffs , sagathies , namkeens , Silasia cambricks , Manchester velvets , grograms , double allapeens , silk camblets , barragons , Brussels camblets , princes stuffs , worsted damasks , silk knitpieces , gattias , shagg velvets , serge desoys and shalloons .
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