Example sentences of "[Wh pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | He left open the possibility that Girobank , recently privatised , could be made responsible for collecting repayments and chasing defaulters , the number of whom could rise significantly above the Government 's current estimates . |
| 2 | THE BLUEBIRD album is a collection of singing by men most of whom could n't , strictly , sing . |
| 3 | His closest companions on the European Tour are D J Russell and Martin Poxon , neither of whom could be called ‘ category one ’ players . |
| 4 | The problem was , whom could Napoleon III marry ? |
| 5 | The Mourabitoun then held a press conference to explain the significance of this new weapon while the correspondents — few of whom could speak Arabic — waited in patience to know the weight of the warhead , its height and range . |
| 6 | Geoffrey Chaucer could not hold a conversation with a modern Englishman , even though they are linked to each other by an unbroken chain of some twenty generations of Englishmen , each of whom could speak to his immediate neighbours in the chain as a son speaks to his father . |
| 7 | Since the hunt for Dinah began , police investigations have revealed the existence in Britain of almost 2,000 religious organisations , any number of whom could have had representatives or followers at the three-day pop festival . |
| 8 | This day boat is specially designed to carry up to eleven passengers , six of whom could be in wheelchairs . |
| 9 | But halfway through the service the minister spotted three youths who were also being counselled , each of whom could be a possible suicide . |
| 10 | An avid reader of classical literature and a disciple of Tolstoy and Zola , she was a shining-star amongst the thousands of immigrant women in the city of Glasgow , many of whom could neither read or write . |
| 11 | The true type , as personified by my own and other mothers , was destined to bear child after child , some of whom could miscarry , some of whom could die , and all of whom were a perpetual source of worry and expense . |
| 12 | The true type , as personified by my own and other mothers , was destined to bear child after child , some of whom could miscarry , some of whom could die , and all of whom were a perpetual source of worry and expense . |
| 13 | DEC and Microsoft , neither of whom could ever be accused of being the least bit friendly to Unix , look for all the world like they 're ganging up to try and kill it off once and for all , using NT-on-Alpha as the blunt instrument . |
| 14 | This vicious circle tends to leave a ‘ rump ’ of inhabitants who are unable to run a car , many of whom could be defined as the ‘ transport poor ’ ( this term will be discussed below ) . |
| 15 | Thus two developments could threaten this society of thrifty peasants , most of whom could read and write : the division of holdings — a process that custom prevented in the Basque Provinces — and an assault on the commons that created and sustained the municipal community and the egalitarian society . |
| 16 | This was true of 6.5 per cent of defendants appearing in the Crown Court and 12.2 per cent who were proceeded against in the magistrates ' courts in 1999 , all of whom could be said to have suffered a double injustice . |
| 17 | I hated the way it made me feel , someone the sight of whom could contaminate , endanger a baby . |
| 18 | Whom could he ask ? |
| 19 | Otherwise there would n't have been a chance for someone with such a large family , almost any of whom could have taken her in . |
| 20 | Bulimia does not mean " to force vomit " , Some compulsive overeaters ( all of whom could be termed sufferers from bulimia ) use enforced vomiting further to control their emotional feelings and also to protect themselves against the consequence of obesity — but not all do so . |
| 21 | But whom could she trust ? |
| 22 | The former ruling centrist PMDB , still the largest single party , together with the centre-left PSDB , had a combined total of 146 deputies , not all of whom could be guaranteed to support Collor 's reform programmes . |
| 23 | The move affected several thousand former members of parliament and public officials , many of whom could be expected to take part in the presidential and legislative elections in 1992 . |
| 24 | Whom could she talk to ? |
| 25 | To whom could she say that ? |
| 26 | In so far as the general picture is intelligible , it appears that we are dealing with a group of warlords in the north , some of whom could claim to be upholding Roman jurisdiction . |
| 27 | But whom could he compare notes with ? |
| 28 | Such polarities were evidently valuable aids to several generations of Wölflinn 's pupils who could benefit from his personal teaching as well as the rather more rigid theory in his books . |
| 29 | But when Uccello died in his eighties , ‘ He left a daughter who could design , and a wife who used to say that Paolo would remain the night long in his study to work out the lines of his perspective , and that when she called him to come to rest , he replied , ‘ Oh what a sweet thing this perspective is ! ’ |
| 30 | An early passage separates this man , who does not want to be nothing , from the trading elders of his family — pessimists who could take risks , and were consoled by their religion . |