Example sentences of "limits to [pron] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 3 | I think there are limits to what we can manage here on the premises because it disrupts life a bit . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | This situation , coupled with the insuperable physical difficulties of governing a huge , thinly populated empire , set inescapable limits to what she could hope to achieve . |
| 7 | She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He also saw the need to rewrite roles around the talents of the actors , as he did for Crawford , but there were limits to what he could do to make the most of the story for the cinema . |
| 10 | There are limits to what I 'd dare and |
| 11 | At a press conference in Washington President George Bush emphasized that the USA did not have unlimited funds , and that " we will negotiate in good faith but there are certain limits to what I will accept " . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |