Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [noun] to what " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | In France , as everywhere , there are limits to what is politically possible . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But there are limits to what such a institution can achieve . |
| 7 | There are limits to what BAT can achieve , but within those limits to what BAT can achieve , but within those limits it is flexible . |
| 8 | Government on these terms is tolerable if the party in power recognises that there are limits to what it is entitled to do . ’ |
| 9 | I think there are limits to what we can manage here on the premises because it disrupts life a bit . |
| 10 | There are limits to what I 'd dare and |
| 11 | There are alternatives to what is called " the lecture system " — hardly an apt name , since anything less systematic or coherent than the uses made of a college lecture would be hard to find . |
| 12 | There were limits to what Karen would let you do . |
| 13 | While the USA would continue to sustain a world role , there were limits to what could be expected . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yet there were limits to what the government could achieve . |
| 17 | But they are guidelines to what acting is basically about . |