Example sentences of "[noun] of what [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly there was no mention of what it could do to a 13-year-old child . |
| 2 | And with it , the sudden fear of what it could do to the tourist trade . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Beck added : ‘ It was a reminder of what he could do . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( However , throughout this discussion I have ignored those psychosomatic disorders which might be the consequence of what we could call ‘ somatic externalization ’ . |
| 8 | Though he got the lines , Michael Banks 's performance was very subdued , only a vestige of what he could achieve . |
| 9 | It was n't as big a hit , but we 'd shown more about the scope of what they could do . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | With his vision of what they could achieve , he planned a whole series of assaults on airfields along the coastal strip . |
| 14 | This figure does not , of course , take account of what you could earn on or do with your money if it was available to you . |
| 15 | On the opposite page we 've put together three outfits from the Freemans catalogue spring/summer collection — just to give you an idea of what you could win . |
| 16 | I know you and the value of what we could have shared . |