Example sentences of "who can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only eagle who can settle her is Minch … was Minch I should say , ’ he added sadly . |
| 2 | , whose voice is well known to customers will still be in touch with what is happening at the company through husband , a shift supervisor — who can beat her years of service by seven ! |
| 3 | Every man who can beat me to the Windmill is excused all fatigues . |
| 4 | ‘ Anyone who can beat me has a good chance of knocking out Holyfield , ’ he said . |
| 5 | There 's no one in the world who can beat my wonderful cousin . ’ |
| 6 | Many patients will have a family member who can collect them by car . |
| 7 | A non-artist songwriter will need a music publisher who can promote his or her writers , songs aggressively , trying to place them with major recording stars . |
| 8 | So as we can not predict human behavior , we may as well adopt the effective theory that humans are free agents who can choose what to do . |
| 9 | Yet it has also spawned some monstrous offspring which include such distortions as a dismissive attitude towards women , a view of work as punishment , a view of pain and hardship as revealing personal guilt , a view of the body and anything to do with it as inherently evil , a view of the earth as the property of homo sapiens who can choose what to do with it , a view of God as an insensitive , self-opinionated , unjust task-master concerned about protecting his own property and the slavish obedience of the human-beings he has created . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Mr William Waldegrave , Britain 's cabinet minister in charge of science , has offered a bottle of decent champagne to one who can tell him why the Higgs boson is worth finding ( see page 781 ) . |
| 12 | Who can tell me ? |
| 13 | Now , what 's a typical , who can tell me what the typical body language is that you would prese present or portray if you said I do n't know ? |
| 14 | a really strong ruler who can tell me what to do so I know where I stand and so on . |
| 15 | Properties who can tell me a property of this gas . |
| 16 | Who can tell me ? |
| 17 | Perhaps I 'll meet someone who can tell me how to get back to the hotel . |
| 18 | I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman , for whom I have some affection , or to any other Labour Member who can tell me what part of that mandate I have reneged on . |
| 19 | Who can tell me what twenty five will be ? |
| 20 | Who can tell me thirty two ? |
| 21 | Who can tell me the next number . |
| 22 | Who can tell me what thirty four will be , Adam ? |
| 23 | ‘ Hands up who can tell me a country which particularly needs our prayers , ’ she said . |
| 24 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
| 25 | Mrs Browning was still pale and shaky as we settled ourselves by the fire ( and what the moon saw , or what it might have seen if its beams could have penetrated the closely-drawn curtains supplemented by plastic sheeting to foil the poison gas , might have seemed a little unusual ; but who can tell what strange sights are enclosed within the cheerful light of a curtained window ? ) . |
| 26 | Many date Mrs Thatcher 's real loss of credibility with the public to her own appearance on Yes , Minister ; fanciful perhaps , but in a semi-literate age who can tell what apparently innocent excursion will not produce serious results ? |
| 27 | After the trade wars with the West over cars and electronic goods , who can tell what that might mean for a country so dependent on trade ? |
| 28 | ‘ Who can tell what lies ahead ? |
| 29 | ‘ Who can tell what 's in there ? ’ |
| 30 | West Ham are one of the favourites to go straight up , but who can tell what the pressures of promotion will do to them in the final weeks . |