Example sentences of "who could [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would involve identifying those who could satisfy criteria or competence and reliability , and encouraging them by removing some of the administrative restrictions now applying . |
| 2 | This means that each job is learned completely and thoroughly , but I could n't help thinking that a few musicians and/or luthiers at strategic points around the factory would n't go amiss — groundworkers who actually understand how a guitar works and who could spot problems from the playing perspective , rather than just the engineering view . |
| 3 | Oliver Hill , its architect , was a chameleon who could perform miracles and build in whatever style was asked of him by his upper-class clients , some of whom were startlingly ‘ progressive ’ . |
| 4 | Novello , who had initially developed The Rat for Brunel , was to join with Cutts ' assistant , Alfred Hitchcock , in demonstrating that adapted stageplays did n't need to constrict cinematic invention as long as script and direction were entrusted to someone who could convey ideas in visual terms . |
| 5 | I 'll never forget when he came home one night a few months ago and said he 'd met this old man who could tell fortunes by reading the dregs in the bottom of a beer glass . |
| 6 | It took a lifetime of service to master warfare in one element : breeding officers who could handle operations in all three would take time . |
| 7 | He was a tall handsome man with huge white teeth ; a magician who could conjure coins or playing-cards from inside the pockets and behind the ears of small boys . |
| 8 | Despite this , one still sees lay lords investing in land — there was no possible alternative — and the need to compensate for declining returns to maintain an existing standard of living may indeed explain some of the characteristic features of fifteenth-century society , the pursuit of heiresses , the search for the patronage of a greater man , particularly the King who could grant pensions and offices , and the desire to campaign overseas . |
| 9 | Thus the hunt was on for heads of functions who could deliver results , and executive search was seen to be the only truly effective way to actually define and attract this key talent . |
| 10 | A folk hero , a man who could draw climbers literally hundreds of miles just to sit in the same pub and hear him sing and play his accordion . |
| 11 | The vestments were more elaborately designed and embroidered , much of the work being undertaken by the Religious and ladies who could devote hours of leisure to this work . |
| 12 | Many small companies could be sustained over difficult periods in their life-cycle if they were associated with caring educational institutions who could offer facilities , skills training , professional consultancy , sharing of staff on a flexible give and take basis , students seconded as real working additions to the work force , joint economic ventures such as trading , shared facilities such as crèches , and so on . |
| 13 | Like Fanny Walden , he was a small player who could upset opponents by sheer pluck combined with skill , and he soon became a popular figure at Leeds Road . |
| 14 | Neighbour John Lavery said the newspaperman was a man ‘ who could make friends with anyone ’ . |
| 15 | In my application I had to give the names of two people who could give references about my work . |
| 16 | Promoters who fought for his services paid appearance money for the wonder dog who could boost attendances by 500 per cent . |
| 17 | A Final Protocol annexed to the Athens Agreement provided in Article 4 for recourse to the Greek-Turkish Mixed Arbitral Tribunal established by the Lausanne Peace Treaty , but did not specify who could submit questions to the Arbitral Tribunal . |
| 18 | The Shah , according to Afshar , replied that the British and American ambassadors had been against it ; they thought it was better to have a quiet man like Azhari who could discuss problems with mullahs leading the revolutionary ferment . |
| 19 | ‘ It is just impossible to understand the sick , perverted mentality of someone who could stab horses in this way , ’ he said . |
| 20 | I wonder if you could tell me who could supply parts for the output differential to the second rear axle . |
| 21 | Some could be absorbed into other Oki operations such as the research and development-oriented Oki Advanced Products , which contains a dozen ex-Stardent Computer Inc engineers reporting directly to Japan , who could maintain contacts . |
| 22 | She appealed against the defendants being given bail for fear they would interfere with witnesses who could help police inquiries . |
| 23 | He allegedly became Washington 's ‘ Mr Big ’ by finding a steady supplier in Los Angeles who could provide drugs in almost unlimited quantities . |
| 24 | Searching for an architect who could produce buildings in the Gothic style , which was then becoming fashionable , he made the acquaintance of the eccentric Augustus Pugin [ q.v. ] |
| 25 | If it covers people who were clients before or who could become clients afterwards , it will be void . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Well it was somebody who could work horses I suppose . |
| 28 | The Man Who Could Work Miracles ( 1936 ) amusingly shows a simple bank clerk trying to grasp the potential of the miracle-working powers he has been given , but frames this story within a portentous divine commentary on ‘ that little planet under the sun ’ , occupied by ‘ such silly little creatures , swarming and crawling . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Easily the most promising , ’ judged Pacey , in 1961 ; and George Woodcock added that Leonard was one ‘ who could write lines which are no longer good imitation Yeats ; they are lines which only Yeats could have imitated . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |