Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been a long road back from those dark and confused days , and Pam is grateful for whatever she can achieve these days . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd be grateful for what you can give me . ’ |
| 3 | The penalty seemed pretty clear-cut and it was a stroke of luck that they 'd just substituted Fashanu as he is their usual penalty taker ( pretty reliable from what I can recall ) . |
| 4 | They are only interested in what they can make out of it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It seems likely that you were the last person to see Glynn alive , apart from his murderer , but at the moment I am more interested in what you can tell me about him — the sort of man he was — and about his friends and his enemies as far as you can . |
| 6 | I 'm as interested in what you can discover about Heather 's state of mind as you are yourself , so it 's only fair I should contribute to your expenses . |
| 7 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |
| 8 | Its activities have grown with every year , but public financing has not , so it is more and more dependent on what it can extract through planning regulations from the developers and industrialists themselves . |
| 9 | For example , the Oxford Text Archive is a collection of computerised texts , each of which you can buy on floppy disc for the price of a printed copy . |
| 10 | More recently studies have attempted to refine their research methodologies so that reviews of this research are much clearer about what we can claim to know and not know about abuse and in particular that it is a much more complex problem than was first thought . |
| 11 | Yet , the medicalization of health within our society has left people generally unaware of what they can do to maintain their own health . |
| 12 | They do n't know much of what we can do |
| 13 | Never buy a barn without planning permission for conversion , and be prepared to find that you are very restricted in what you can do to it . |
| 14 | It seems indisputable that in a minority of cases , the causes of the disturbing behaviour are located wholly outside the responsibilities of the school and that the school is impotent in what it can offer . |
| 15 | The public debate about political priorities focuses far too much on what we can do for today 's consumption and far too little about what we invest in the future . |
| 16 | You 're all right Jack and I should be lucky for what I can get . |
| 17 | You can buy a number of products which will allow your fish to feed while you are away , including automatic feeders and holiday blocks , but for a normal two week vacation your adult fish will do just fine on what they can find in the tank . |
| 18 | You 'll find some ideas on page 5 about what you can do . |
| 19 | yeah he 's one of the few doctor 's that 's not seemingly not all for what he can get , he seems to be a genuine caring chap I mean a lot of doctor 's they burn the candles at both ends |
| 20 | You should be equal to whatever you can evoke from your own impulses . |
| 21 | Can can I just say that I think it 's interesting that Mao 's sort of targeting the local tyrants and the erm the evil gentry I mean because you could , you could ar argue that basically the landlords are only trying to get a return erm which is , which is equal to what they can get if they invest all their money in or you know erm or whatever or big cities |
| 22 | It would be a more serious objection if there were no real truth there at all to which we can hope our judgements may approximate . |
| 23 | Can I make a suggestion rather than re-numbering all those , its going to be quite a long job , is that from what I can see at the moment there is no reason why that ca n't be added on as a last sentence to nine anyway , cause nine says you records the outcome of the enquiry , . |
| 24 | The report urges consumers to start demanding value for money , but music lovers are sceptical about what they can achieve . |
| 25 | Until that time be happy with what you can get . ’ |
| 26 | Without the recession it would be higher but we must be thankful for what we can get in these times when other railways are reporting reductions of up to 20 percent . |
| 27 | Research does not argue with this , but it does cut out a lot of hard work by providing evidence on the best methods , treatments , or products available from which you can begin to make choices and evaluate the effectiveness of care given as a result . |
| 28 | alright , into the summer term but if necessary , but I think it will be five from what I can gather . |
| 29 | Rangers manager Walter Smith still believes that Marseilles have a slight edge as they have to face Rangers at home on April 7 but he said : ‘ I 'm still optimistic about what we can do in our home games . ’ |
| 30 | The cross of Jesus is God 's final and decisive ‘ No ! ’ to all that : it leaves us literally nothing of our own on which we can rely . |