Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] what [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the outset Helen Martini said the prospects of what they had taken on were daunting , but she had no doubts about what they could accomplish . |
| 2 | Though the social survey method was not extensively used in Chicago-inspired studies , and there was some scepticism about what it could achieve for sociology compared to field research , with the appointment of Ogburn in 1927 , a statistically trained sociologist , the pace of the development of quantitative methods quickened . |
| 3 | Sadly there was no mention of what it could do to a 13-year-old child . |
| 4 | And with it , the sudden fear of what it could do to the tourist trade . |
| 5 | How any reparation could be made , and talking about reparation , this business over absent fathers , er , has just killed that idea of us getting more and more in that kind of way , but I 'm sure there are many people , and I 'm not thinking about those who have been , committed an act of violence , and said , well they might do it again , but say , I 'm pretty sure people who have been committed in effect of what you could call civil crimes , that is putting their hand in the drawer , should never be in prison . |
| 6 | But , since she could n't do anything about the car situation until that wretched part had been delivered , should n't she concentrate her worries on what she could do something about ? |
| 7 | They wanted to get them into a union , lots of ideas about what they could do for you . |
| 8 | He began to see that God was not a tyrant but a loving Father ; he began to see that the Christian life was not a series of impossible demands to satisfy the whims of an unreasonable employer ; he began to see that he was welcome because of who he was , and not on the basis of what he could achieve . |
| 9 | Beck added : ‘ It was a reminder of what he could do . |
| 10 | The secondary school to which they went on would then have an accurate record of what they could do , and could save a great deal of time at present wasted in the transition from one school to another . |
| 11 | ( However , throughout this discussion I have ignored those psychosomatic disorders which might be the consequence of what we could call ‘ somatic externalization ’ . |
| 12 | yeah , basically , I mean you could go to poly with what you could get , yeah |
| 13 | I 've been racking my brains for what I could have done , then it struck me . |
| 14 | Though he got the lines , Michael Banks 's performance was very subdued , only a vestige of what he could achieve . |
| 15 | It was n't as big a hit , but we 'd shown more about the scope of what they could do . ’ |
| 16 | Now that he was left alone with the two women , both of whom ( he imagined ) rather admired him , Rupert felt a sense of power , though there being two of them rather limited the scope of what he could do — cramped his style , he might almost have said . |
| 17 | Although it may have taken only an instant , the person to whom this sentence refers had to make the logical jump from what he could see of the possible escape routes open to him to the realization that flight was impossible . |
| 18 | Erm or I mean you know for advice about what they could do about D H S S. |
| 19 | He wrote what became a celebrated memorandum to Cordell Hull , the secretary of state , in which he declared that he was " thrilled by the idea of using iran as an example of what we could do by an unselfish American policy . |
| 20 | He himself had bitten his tongue from what he could feel in his mouth , probably loosened a couple of teeth and had a flesh wound over his eye . |
| 21 | The meat was often sold on stalls in the villages , but there was a limit to what one could buy . |
| 22 | There seemed no limit to what it could achieve . |
| 23 | There was a limit to what she could make out , given the angle and that she was trying to see the page upside-down , but what she saw was enough to confirm that this book , or perhaps its predecessor for the previous year , had the potential to tell her exactly what she most needed to know . |
| 24 | Because she had no man , she had no income beyond what she could earn . |
| 25 | Tolby seemed to have buttered up all the Devenishes for what he could get : the father took him into the firm and launched him on his career ; Clare darned his socks and cooked him meals ; and Hubert — if Henry was right — had put some business his way . |
| 26 | In the cynical world of F1 , we tend to accept the number of noughts as a driver 's way of keeping score , but the local bricklayer has an acute realisation of what he could afford to buy with £6,000,000 ! |
| 27 | With his vision of what they could achieve , he planned a whole series of assaults on airfields along the coastal strip . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |