Example sentences of "[noun sg] of what we can " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these examples are part and parcel of what we can encounter in higher education courses . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This much more elaborated nervous system is associated with a much greater range of what we can recognizably call adaptive behaviour . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( 1987 : 29 ) I would only add that the value of what we can not understand is only recognized by reference to what we can . |