Example sentences of "to what [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , so now we 've got round to what we can do for the casualty , let's have a look and see what the body 's trying to do here and then we 'll say how you 'll help them a bit more . |
| 2 | Furthermore , there are certain limitations to what we can learn from science because the concept of replication does not obtain in police investigation . |
| 3 | The point about studies on non-human animals is not that they replace studies on humans but that they provide us with pointers to what we should study in people and how we should study it . |
| 4 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 5 | Has the Minister considered whether it would make more sense if young men and women from working-class families who leave school at 16 or 17 and are thrown into slave labour schemes where they earn a little over £20 a week , but who want to stay on at school , could stay on and be paid a sum equivalent to what they would get on training schemes ? |
| 6 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There are limits to what they can say in explaining their beliefs , the sort of limits which we tend to accept when imagining the constraints upon giving a blind person some understanding of what the world looks like ( although , as said , it would be wrong to suppose that we could communicate nothing in such circumstances ) . |
| 9 | By contrast , the Labour party has been silent about new technology , preferring to mutter about unemployment without putting forward detailed proposals as to what it would do about the problem beyond throwing public money at the dole queues . |
| 10 | A good illustration of this principle is provided by the rules concerning ‘ statutory default powers ’ , that is , powers of ministers of central government to give directions to an authority which fails to perform some statutory duty ( or , sometimes , a statutory power ) as to what it must do in pursuance of its duty ( or in exercise of its power ) . |
| 11 | ‘ There is practically no limit to what I can think of . ’ |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's a limit to what you can think about God . ’ |
| 15 | Limit to what you can get by gobblin' a guy 's raw brain . |
| 16 | All our coinage , even our notes , diminish in size in proportion to what you can buy with it . |
| 17 | DI 'd through a desk and recorded onto both DAT and cassette utilising the onboard amp simulator , the distortion could n't be described as amazing , but I presume this must be what people expect to hear these days , although to me it does n't sound too close to what you 'd get from a guitar amp . |
| 18 | She suggests that children who score low on both comprehension and production may be immature or mentally retarded , although no explanation is provided as to what she might mean by these terms . |
| 19 | One of them apparently recognised Ranulf and called out honey-phrased invitations as to what she would offer for a silver coin . |
| 20 | Everything that Margery says can be traced to what she would hear in sermons and readings . |
| 21 | She stared bleakly at the damask cloth she had traced her fingers over as if it might hold the answer to what she should do with the rest of her life after tonight . |
| 22 | He will also appreciate having his memory jogged as to what he should record at any given time . |
| 23 | It is administration , rather than deciding issues or resolving disputes , even though the certifier often has to accept or reject claims by the contractor as to what he should certify for payment . |
| 24 | For years he and his father before him had endured advice from well-meaning lunatics as to what he should do with the place — concreting the stones , or letting archaeologists burrow under them with their excavations , or digging a defensive moat round it — and Sir Edmund Antrobus , Bart , had had enough . |