Example sentences of "limit [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm this is a more abstract research project , which is concerned with the idea that we may , very soon perhaps , reach the limit of what we can cram onto a silicon chip . |
| 2 | Or to provide development capital where your expansion may be limited by the fact that you are nearing the limit of what you can raise by other conventional means . |
| 3 | However , as some compensation for this , there is not usually any fixed limit on what they can receive . |
| 4 | When you are talking about 12,000 children , many only young teenagers , there is a limit to what they can do for themselves and the help of the aid community is obviously vital . |
| 5 | Mr Threlfall said : ‘ There is a physical limit to what we can do ; this was one of those unfortunate occasions . ’ |
| 6 | There has to be a limit to what you can do . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ There 's a limit to what you can think about God . ’ |
| 8 | There 's a limit to what I can endure . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ There is practically no limit to what I can think of . ’ |
| 10 | In spite of this , advertisers , agencies and researchers persist in pushing the interpretation of recall well beyond the limits of what it can tell them . |
| 11 | As for the slogan that man is master of his fate , no doubt it has its uses in combating a fatalism which could contract still further the limits within which he can influence the spontaneous by reason and will . |
| 12 | There are limits to what they can say in explaining their beliefs , the sort of limits which we tend to accept when imagining the constraints upon giving a blind person some understanding of what the world looks like ( although , as said , it would be wrong to suppose that we could communicate nothing in such circumstances ) . |
| 13 | I think there are limits to what we can manage here on the premises because it disrupts life a bit . |
| 14 | In this short series we 're exploring some of the boundaries of science — the limits to what we can measure or experience , limits that exist in space , time , temperature and so on . |
| 15 | So , if there are limits to what we can do , and if the development of technology brings costs as well as benefits , we now must face the second question : under what circumstances do we either develop or apply a particular technology ? |
| 16 | Obviously there are limits to what you can achieve , but you will not know what those limits are until you embark upon a programme of good nutritious eating and appropriate exercise . |
| 17 | The second is the fact that we tend to make ourselves miserable by exploring the limits to which we can resist the temptation to go all the way . |
| 18 | To what then is the human psychobiological system adapted and what are the limits to which it can adjust without an excessive strain leading ultimately to reduced reproductive ability ? |