Example sentences of "[prep] what they could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his vision of what they could achieve , he planned a whole series of assaults on airfields along the coastal strip . |
| 2 | I admit it sounds like a lot ; but that 's because everybody thinks of what they could do with it if it ended up in their bank account . |
| 3 | The secondary school to which they went on would then have an accurate record of what they could do , and could save a great deal of time at present wasted in the transition from one school to another . |
| 4 | It was n't as big a hit , but we 'd shown more about the scope of what they could do . ’ |
| 5 | After checking this balancing they increased the current further to three times the starting value , and discovered an excess heat output of ten per cent over and above what they could account for going in . |
| 6 | They were accordingly satisfied that the trial judge misdirected the jury when he stated that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what they could find proved that he himself did . |
| 7 | ‘ The problem with all these stars , ’ said Peter Fairley , ‘ was that the moment they started to know that we were interested in what they could do , and we started to investigate how they did things , it just went . |
| 8 | ‘ They had a wonderful pioneering style and pride both in what they had achieved and in what they could teach you . |
| 9 | But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan . |
| 10 | Their measure of their health status was related to what they could do , rather than to the presence of current disease or conditions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the 1990s the report of these professional organizations who constituted a separate industry , was based on what they could discover about the applicant 's known record to date as regards prompt and full payment , on the applicant 's own assertions and , controversially ( because of possible contravention of the Data Protection Act ) information volunteered upon questioning by third parties . |
| 13 | At the end of the war government assistance was withdrawn and local Bureaux were left to scrape along on what they could glean from local authorities and other sources . |
| 14 | This was particularly important when few persons were able to read and had to depend on what they were told and above all on what they could see . |
| 15 | To men who lived on what they could pick up from articles and reviews , the ultimate weapon implied more than lack of a showcase : it implied starvation … |
| 16 | The minds of the other literate villagers were dissipated on what they could pick up in a random manner : most of it naturally consisted of religious tracts , the traditional fodder left over from the past . |
| 17 | Both the armies of this pincer movement probably travelled quickly , without extensive commissary , relying on what they could pick up as they laid the land waste . |
| 18 | They wanted to get them into a union , lots of ideas about what they could do for you . |
| 19 | Erm or I mean you know for advice about what they could do about D H S S. |
| 20 | The tribe sang a song to thank the Great Spirits and everyone thought about what they could offer as a sacrifice . |
| 21 | At the outset Helen Martini said the prospects of what they had taken on were daunting , but she had no doubts about what they could accomplish . |
| 22 | They could see Mr Flood fussing round the window of his shop as if he were still worried about what they could have found so amusing in its contents . |
| 23 | ‘ No one comes to me after our matches to talk about what they could have done better , ’ said Durie . |
| 24 | A special spinners ' mat was laid down at pre-tour net sessions at Lilleshall in an effort to prepare England 's batsmen for what they could expect to face on dusty Indian pitches . |
| 25 | They were welcome for what they could help China to achieve in practical terms , but their politics and social attitudes were reviled . |
| 26 | She believed that ‘ representation without taxation ’ led to councils gaining support more for what they could promise as spenders rather than save as prudent housekeepers . |
| 27 | What he had already done at Bec and Caen , he would do at Canterbury : he rebuilt the cathedral church and monastic buildings ; he fought pertinaciously and successfully to defend the ancient properties of the cathedral church against the rapacious invading nobility , who scoured the land for what they could pick up ; he drew up a new code of monastic practice , and he introduced new men who would know how to implement it . |