Example sentences of "[noun sg] of what [pron] can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Filling in the two charts on page 32 gives the best indication of what you can afford . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All these examples are part and parcel of what we can encounter in higher education courses . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But perhaps it 's more a question of what I can do for you ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It is not a question of what I can bear , but of what I have to put up with . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I add a few examples from that video of what one can deduce as to the daily routine . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | An example of what you can do with a little space … a lot of work … and seven and a half thousand plants … |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | " I think I created around me always a positive sense of what you can become . |
| 17 | I travelled to the plant to collect the guitar and was treated to a comprehensive tour of what I can confirm as an impressive facility of skilled and committed people in every department . |
| 18 | In the same way , we know that the scales of size and time extend in both directions far outside the realm of what we can visualize . |
| 19 | I think I 've come to the end of what I can do . ’ |
| 20 | A review is meant to give you a taster of what you can expect for your money . |
| 21 | In the past 30 days you have been training your body to work at its optimum potential ; and you will now have a good idea of what you can achieve by using the Walking Diet recipes and aerobic walking . |
| 22 | The list below will give you some idea of what you can do . |
| 23 | er right erm tt yep that seems to be okay I did n't erm no I was reading this on , this morning just after the clinical lecture and I did n't see anything that , that I thought would be problematic erm you know given , you know , sort of what I 've seen in your coursework so far you seem to have got a fairly good idea of what you can ask and what you can get away with and what sorts of things you think are useful and , and , and stuff like that so erm you know I 'm entirely happy with your judgment as to the content erm you know because it 's part of an ongoing pr project and it 's not just something that you 've , you 've knocked off in half an hour or anything so erm |
| 24 | All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you . |
| 25 | Since they are presumed to be the only judges of how good their work is , no layman or other outsider can make any judgment of what they can do . |
| 26 | Stare at something immediately in front of you and make a mental note of what you can see above that object and below it , to the right and to the left . |
| 27 | It is not possible here to give anything like a complete view of what we can learn from coin designs , and the following discussion will only characterise some of the potential and the pitfalls of using them . |