Example sentences of "who could " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On a patch where the rough surface of brickwork was exposed , someone had vomited , probably a passing drunk whose sense of propriety , demanding privacy , had deterred him from being sick in the street ; or a returning resident who could not wait to climb the few steps to the communal toilet on the first half-landing . |
| 5 | But this novel has not just one but two barmen who could also at a pinch be hailed as lords of language . |
| 6 | His brother Gavin frets him , and he has a longing for Gavin 's wife , together with a more urgent one for a teacher at the school , Alison Houston , who could be felt to lead him on a bit but does n't want to have a ‘ relationship ’ with him . |
| 7 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 8 | Well , I was one of the people who could n't do it even if I was n't lifting a heavy weight . |
| 9 | Divorce was seen to be harder on the women than the men , who could get out of their family responsibilities so much more easily with divorce than without it . |
| 10 | When state-supported secondary education was introduced in 1878 , a denominational system was officially set up , though at this time the system was only availed of by the few families who could afford to lose the labour of young teenagers . |
| 11 | Another senior personnel manager said : ‘ It would not be a moral judgment , but we have to consider the practicalities of appointing someone who could be off work for long periods . ’ |
| 12 | How could Ma look like that at someone who could n't even speak English ? |
| 13 | Who could resist ‘ One acre of reclaimed wilderness populated by a variety of plants that can withstand ignorant malpractice , all planted by the ad hoc topsy school of garden design ’ ? |
| 14 | There can be few of us who can not make a daisy chain with our eyes closed — and who could forget the daisy-spangled downs and pastures where we loved to picnic ? |
| 15 | He grew up that day , and never again saw his father as a being who could do anything and was never at a loss . |
| 16 | Here was not an authority-figure , of school or university or civic discipline ; still less a relation who could ‘ pull rank ’ by virtue of family influence or purse string manipulation . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | As she walked from the post office empty handed , she pretended to be an American tourist , one who could leave in a few days , one for whom the trip would soon be nothing more than a few travel stories and postcards . |
| 19 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 20 | But there are many more thousands who could benefit from the club . |
| 21 | No — their secrets were first revealed to curious scientific men , to apothecaries and simples-collectors , to people who could now be called botanists , and such was Evan Roberts . |
| 22 | His is in some ways a tragic case : a man of immense talent and massive erudition , gifted with profound insights , who could not say the things he most wanted to say but who , nevertheless , has gone on to say them . |
| 23 | A central figure in Dickstein 's essay is Henry James , a great critic , who could be subtly descriptive , elucidatory , analytical , and judgemental within the same piece of writing . |
| 24 | who could understand him |
| 25 | He predicted there would be no shortage of volunteers , who could acquire the necessary skills on short courses . |
| 26 | Every year he would have half a dozen nine- and 10-year-olds in his class who could barely read . |
| 27 | In Liverpool , a dockers ' spokesman with the Transport and General Workers Union admitted : ‘ Drivers are n't happy handling some of these commodities , but at least a lorry-driver has more idea of what he is handling than a docker , who could have a consignment and just not know what it is . ’ |
| 28 | Short and chubby , he once said that he was the only senior Hong Kong official who could see eye-to-eye with the equally diminutive Deng Xiaoping . |
| 29 | This would only be possible if she had intensive 24-hour cover : if she could employ carers both night and day who could be flexible enough to adapt to her needs rather than vice versa . |
| 30 | In a statement read to the court , Shooter described his crime as ‘ a cry for help from someone who could no longer handle the pressures of life ’ . |