Example sentences of "[noun sg] to what you [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All our coinage , even our notes , diminish in size in proportion to what you can buy with it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Back along with the back to what you would call the sea crossing er to and get on to the Rousay pier then and get a dinghy or something and row across to Wyre . |
| 4 | There has to be a limit to what you can do . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There 's a limit to what you can think about God . ’ |
| 6 | Although they did n't , they did n't act illegally , they did n't say right , we 're going to make the redundancy payment act , but what they did say you retire at fifty , we will make your we will enhance your pension to what you would have got at age sixty , we will enhance your lump sum to what you would have got at age sixty and erm give you a redundancy payment from the firm and obviously everybody fifty and plus they 've gone in thousands , they had enormous waiting lists and then they had to say no , you ca n't go you know , too many people wanted to go . |
| 7 | Although they did n't , they did n't act illegally , they did n't say right , we 're going to make the redundancy payment act , but what they did say you retire at fifty , we will make your we will enhance your pension to what you would have got at age sixty , we will enhance your lump sum to what you would have got at age sixty and erm give you a redundancy payment from the firm and obviously everybody fifty and plus they 've gone in thousands , they had enormous waiting lists and then they had to say no , you ca n't go you know , too many people wanted to go . |
| 8 | Controls for the windows and electric sun-roof are within easy reach near the gearstick ; Michael echoed a common complaint about the window buttons , which work the opposite way to what you 'd expect . |
| 9 | Right and I want you to plan to do that for a call tonight in order to what you would say to this sort of person all right ? |
| 10 | Very rapidly Modigliani fell victim to what you might call ‘ the myth of bohemia ’ , from which he never emerged . |