Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] what [pers pn] can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some cretins like Pybus are only in football for what they can get out of it . |
| 2 | Magic : it lubricates the gap between what we can see and understand , and what unhappy feelings haunt our dreams . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Both of them want to be close and both need to repair their inner confusion about what they can allow themselves . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe if I played with another side I 'd get more recognition for what I can do . |
| 6 | Filling in the two charts on page 32 gives the best indication of what you can afford . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | All these examples are part and parcel of what we can encounter in higher education courses . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But perhaps it 's more a question of what I can do for you ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It is not a question of what I can bear , but of what I have to put up with . ’ |
| 13 | All our coinage , even our notes , diminish in size in proportion to what you can buy with it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He takes a pride in what he can do in a small space . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | To a large extent we have to infer the nature of this earliest division from what we can learn of later arrangements ; in particular we are told by Gregory of Tours that in 561 Clovis 's grandsons took over the kingdoms of the previous generation ; thus , Charibert I ( 561 – 7 ) received the portion of Childebert I ( 511 – 58 ) , based on Paris ; Guntram ( 561 – 92 ) that of Chlodomer ( 511 – 24 ) , with its centre at Orléans ; Chilperic I ( 561 – 84 ) was given the kingdom of Soissons , once held by Chlothar I ( 511 – 61 ) ; while Sigibert I ( 561 – 75 ) inherited the realm of Theuderic I ( 511 – 34 ) and his descendants , Theudebert I ( 534 – 47 ) and Theudebald ( 547 – 55 ) , and established himself at Rheims . |
| 22 | On the other hand , can you see if coordination gets er deteriorates in any way you 're going to be cut off from an awful lot of things you now , you might have been marvellous at embroidery , it gave you a lot of satisfaction but if your co coordination starts to go then the quality of what you can do will satisfy you , will dissatisfy you , make you feel annoyed . |
| 23 | An example of what you can do with a little space … a lot of work … and seven and a half thousand plants … |
| 24 | erm this is a more abstract research project , which is concerned with the idea that we may , very soon perhaps , reach the limit of what we can cram onto a silicon chip . |
| 25 | Or to provide development capital where your expansion may be limited by the fact that you are nearing the limit of what you can raise by other conventional means . |
| 26 | Today , newspapers are entirely free from direct government control over what they can print . |
| 27 | " We 're waiting for news on what we can expect the market to be doing tomorrow . |
| 28 | However , as some compensation for this , there is not usually any fixed limit on what they can receive . |
| 29 | When you are talking about 12,000 children , many only young teenagers , there is a limit to what they can do for themselves and the help of the aid community is obviously vital . |
| 30 | Mr Threlfall said : ‘ There is a physical limit to what we can do ; this was one of those unfortunate occasions . ’ |