Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] what [pers pn] can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any queries about what we can do for you , please do n't hesitate to call us on |
| 2 | Some cretins like Pybus are only in football for what they can get out of it . |
| 3 | Magic : it lubricates the gap between what we can see and understand , and what unhappy feelings haunt our dreams . |
| 4 | I 'll get you some sandwiches and some more tea and once you 've eaten we can get down to some practical thinking about what you can do next . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ These people ca n't just blow in with their grand illusions about what they can do in Northern Ireland , with this ‘ big brother ’ attitude that America can solve everyone 's problems . |
| 6 | Is it the first time , for instance , you have been told you only enter into relationships for what you can get out of them ? |
| 7 | Both of them want to be close and both need to repair their inner confusion about what they can allow themselves . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe if I played with another side I 'd get more recognition for what I can do . |
| 9 | Filling in the two charts on page 32 gives the best indication of what you can afford . |
| 10 | Yet the effect of what you can play should be that you hear what Brahms wrote down , even if you do n't follow his notation absolutely to the dot . |
| 11 | Yet the final equation of what you can afford to spend on a new car is likely to be influenced by what you get for the old one . |
| 12 | Dingwall , in another context , calls these stories ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( 1977 ) , and Richman shows how they feature prominently in the discourse of traffic wardens , in an attempt to socialize new recruits into what they can expect , as well as being a means of stressing the moral worth of traffic wardens : a concern which was high on the priorities of such a stigmatized occupational group ( Richman 1983 : 115 ) . |
| 13 | Then he cleans the bed of needles and berries , spreads an old blanket over it , stretches himself at length , his hands folded under his head , and looks through the branches at what he can see of the blue sky . |
| 14 | All these examples are part and parcel of what we can encounter in higher education courses . |
| 15 | Even if the brain were designed so that components could be easily removed , there is the issue of what we can conclude about the functions of its components from knowing the effects of removing one of them . |
| 16 | But perhaps it 's more a question of what I can do for you ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It is not a question of what I can bear , but of what I have to put up with . ’ |
| 18 | Given the conditions in which most teachers are working , and given that they are human beings — that is , they have limitations on what they can do , and how well and how fast they can do it — they could not be feeling otherwise than rushed and confused , nor acting otherwise than fallibly . |
| 19 | Furthermore , there are certain limitations to what we can learn from science because the concept of replication does not obtain in police investigation . |
| 20 | All our coinage , even our notes , diminish in size in proportion to what you can buy with it . |
| 21 | Bagdikian argues that national boundaries are growing increasingly meaningless as the main actors ( five groups at the time he was writing ) strive for total control in the production , delivery , and marketing of what we can call the cultural-ideological goods of the global capitalist system . |
| 22 | This ‘ raw material ’ is formed through an interaction between what we are born with and what we live through , or as James Michener puts it : ‘ Heredity establishes the perimeters of what we can accomplish ; environment determines whether we acquire the character to reach those perimeters ’ ( 1976 , p.130 ) . |
| 23 | Each new teacher is put through a period of what we can call social apprenticeship by the pupils in order to ascertain what sort of person and disciplinarian ( s ) he is going to be . |
| 24 | He or she is trying to get a very clear picture of what you can do so that they can place you accurately and not send you on too many pointless interviews . |
| 25 | ‘ They were quite a part of the international scene in those days from what I can make out . |
| 26 | Even in the first week of June , when potatoes were a foot high and oilseed rape was in glower , snow fell on high ground , and this makes a difference to what you can grow successfully . |
| 27 | The use of models , such as we have seen above , helps to clarify the relationship between what we can see and what we can only surmise . |
| 28 | Descartes , so the story goes , reached this conception because , unlike his predecessors , the Aristotelians , he was obsessed by epistemological questions — that is , questions about what we can know and how we can know it . |
| 29 | He takes a pride in what he can do in a small space . |
| 30 | It gets its name from what you can see in the far distance , provided the weather is right , which is the first peaks of the real Pyrenees . |