Example sentences of "what they can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dingwall , in another context , calls these stories ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( 1977 ) , and Richman shows how they feature prominently in the discourse of traffic wardens , in an attempt to socialize new recruits into what they can expect , as well as being a means of stressing the moral worth of traffic wardens : a concern which was high on the priorities of such a stigmatized occupational group ( Richman 1983 : 115 ) . |
| 2 | Public confidence in the police is enhanced when people know what they can expect from their local police force , and when outsiders are let into the process of inspecting how they work . |
| 3 | These are important opportunities to tell staff what is expected of them , as well as old people what they can expect . |
| 4 | Be decided from the outset — they prefer that , then they know what they can expect from you . |
| 5 | See-through : Try a bit harder — or you may not be able to hold up your head when your children ask what they can expect from the future . |
| 6 | Researchers are not constrained to what they can observe or experience directly , but are able to cover as many facets of as many people as resources allow . |
| 7 | ‘ Now we are finding new markets and we are very interested in seeing what we can offer Mari El and what they can offer us , ’ he said . |
| 8 | They should be seeing what they can offer in the modern world rather than what the law does and how it links to the client . ’ |
| 9 | Today , newspapers are entirely free from direct government control over what they can print . |
| 10 | For the families and individuals this means that they depend for their electricity on what they can generate for themselves , grow much of their own food and recycle their own wastes . |
| 11 | The Koi eat only what they can reach and the unit appears to make an effective vegetation filter . |
| 12 | and see if he can do something , well he 's in the , that , I should imagine he knows what they can earn and what they ca n't earn . |
| 13 | What they can give , what things they may not have and whether these are a priority . |
| 14 | I 'm going to use what they can give me and try and make them look good . |
| 15 | ‘ Then let us see what they can tell us . ’ |
| 16 | He also carefully counts the local council votes in all the wards which affect his constituency to see what they can tell him about the likely outcome of the parliamentary election . |
| 17 | Hopes of attracting institutional cash have also been raised by a law limiting the proportion of assets that pension funds and insurance companies can hold in land , but increasing what they can hold in shares from 30% to 50% . |
| 18 | They have to be concerned with inputs , because inputs are what they can control . |
| 19 | Only when the public comes to a fuller understanding of the place of the mentally handicapped in our society , and appreciates what mentally handicapped people are really like and what they can achieve , will real progress be made in their integration back into the society of which they are a part . |
| 20 | If any readers would like to receive a free copy of an information sheet I have produced on the types of environmental audits and what they can achieve they should write to me at the address below : |
| 21 | Fellow coach Robert Millington reckoned : ‘ Physiologically , they [ blacks ] are much better equipped than whites ; not so much with what they 've got to start with , but what they can achieve in a short space of time . |
| 22 | The report urges consumers to start demanding value for money , but music lovers are sceptical about what they can achieve . |
| 23 | ‘ Four areas have come out firstly a database , information and networks ; then the idea of a convention , festival or seminar ; training and education ; and lastly music business associations and what they can achieve . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ They do n't realise the speed of the men players or what they can do with the ball . |
| 25 | But the next exam on the educational ladder lays emphasis on what people know , rather than what they can do , and is seen primarily as a passport to university entry . |
| 26 | I for one will be approaching my MP to see what they can do to help end this appalling threat . |
| 27 | But they are no longer sure what they can do to prevent a break-up if it comes . |
| 28 | I 'm going to call those young fellows in again and see what they can do about it . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ There are some marvellous directors and performers but they just do n't get a chance to show what they can do . |
| 30 | To a man the ‘ A ’ team will be eager to show the Essex captain what they can do . |