Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] [prep] what [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of us , no matter how irresolute we are , like to think that we reign supreme in our own consciousness , that we are masters of what our minds accept or reject … |
| 2 | He could hang everything is sight including what his favourite paper hangs regularly : The Truth . |
| 3 | At the same time , research evidence about how people view this in practice conveys a sense of boundaries : that there are limits to what one can reasonably expect relatives to do , and to what a person would want to rely on relatives for . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | So , if there are limits to what we can do , and if the development of technology brings costs as well as benefits , we now must face the second question : under what circumstances do we either develop or apply a particular technology ? |
| 6 | I think there are limits to what we can manage here on the premises because it disrupts life a bit . |
| 7 | There are limits to what I 'd dare and |
| 8 | Obviously there are limits to what you can achieve , but you will not know what those limits are until you embark upon a programme of good nutritious eating and appropriate exercise . |
| 9 | Government on these terms is tolerable if the party in power recognises that there are limits to what it is entitled to do . ’ |
| 10 | It seems like you got there 's a logic , there are arguments behind what you 're doing , and you 're equalising things certainly , but I suppose what comes to mind is this phrase to rob Peter to pay Paul , and it must be very difficult to explain to the people in the old folks home when it 's being closed , I 'm sorry , you 're doing this so that somebody else in a different part of the country will have a better quality of life . |
| 11 | He also saw the need to rewrite roles around the talents of the actors , as he did for Crawford , but there were limits to what he could do to make the most of the story for the cinema . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And there 's guidance on what you should eat and drink the moment you cross that line . |
| 14 | There 's truth in what you say . |
| 15 | There is truth in what he argues , but not the whole truth . |
| 16 | The treatment techniques we describe are not a treatment programme as such : they are examples of what you might see the patient doing , with explanations of what the physiotherapist is trying to achieve , and how the patient should respond . |
| 17 | The tentative explanation came to be accepted by the men that they were victims of what they called ‘ the Northern Ireland Office 's numbers game ’ . |