Example sentences of "on what [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think if we go down not having a responsible position to our debts , repaying our debts in the long term , erm , we are going to be restricted on what we can borrow with the capital , because no government is going to , you know , my party or your party , is going to let us go on building debts , and more debts by giving us permission to borrow money and more money and more money . |
| 2 | The public debate about political priorities focuses far too much on what we can do for today 's consumption and far too little about what we invest in the future . |
| 3 | I think we should attempt to focus on what we can do with the scarce resources that are available to us . |
| 4 | Yeah but the favour we 're only touching on what we can do . |
| 5 | " We 're waiting for news on what we can expect the market to be doing tomorrow . |
| 6 | Science is based on what we can see and hear and touch , etc . |
| 7 | In other words , on we can establish that we yes that 's true , but we ca n't necessarily meet it because we are limited on what we can produce . |
| 8 | Yes thank you Chairman erm I think important question very similar question I think we 're we 're all wondering whether the changed landscape of West Sussex , the changed use of West Sussex has had any influence on the flooding and as the County Council has pointed out worst amount of rain we 've had for about seventy years or so I think it 's very useful and important er to ask questions an and when this crisis is over we reflect on what we can learn from it , but I must bear in mind that it is first and foremost extraordinary climatic conditions which have caused these problems and that in itself of course might have implications erm the whole of global warming does tend to come to mind when you see what 's happening in Australia as well as what 's happening here erm that 's certainly not anything that agencies great or small can have any control over . |
| 9 | Gooch , in Cities of Dreams , postulates a society based on what we can call ‘ mental artefacts ’ ; that is , ideas rather than physical constructions . |
| 10 | Recent criticism has become increasingly interested in the institutions which seek to impose controls on what we can say about the Renaissance . |
| 11 | They speak of longing to be beautiful or of restrictions on what they can wear or how they can look , and of media images of young women and how this affects them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Children should be judged on what they can do and on what they know , not on who they are . |
| 14 | Given the conditions in which most teachers are working , and given that they are human beings — that is , they have limitations on what they can do , and how well and how fast they can do it — they could not be feeling otherwise than rushed and confused , nor acting otherwise than fallibly . |
| 15 | My plea to the Government , therefore , is that they concentrate on what they can do , and that is to improve the long-term prospects for the economy . |
| 16 | People do n't follow through on what they can see , erm and what erm might be there . |
| 17 | However , as some compensation for this , there is not usually any fixed limit on what they can receive . |
| 18 | You can buy a number of products which will allow your fish to feed while you are away , including automatic feeders and holiday blocks , but for a normal two week vacation your adult fish will do just fine on what they can find in the tank . |
| 19 | Its activities have grown with every year , but public financing has not , so it is more and more dependent on what it can extract through planning regulations from the developers and industrialists themselves . |
| 20 | Have you any advice on what I can do about it ? |
| 21 | In the same way that there are rules within sentences , limiting which words can follow others , so there might also be rules within discourses , limiting which sentence can follow another one , and if I write ‘ The knight killed the dragon ’ , then there might be limits , or constraints , on what I can put as the next sentence . |
| 22 | For information on what you can do to help , contact ; The West Midlands Anti-Deportation Campaign , c/o 101 Villa Road , Handsworth , Birmingham B19 . |
| 23 | Mind you , is n't there some restrictions on what you can do with fridges ? |
| 24 | This is a lucky time to focus on what you can make of yourself . |
| 25 | Better concentrate on what you can control and get on with it . |
| 26 | a tendency to be based on what you can read and what you understand of today 's social problems , I mean every thing we 've had so far apart from the industrial revolution and the history behind it |
| 27 | Erm and er so er y'know there 's all sorts of well depends on what you can find and what you think 's suitable . |
| 28 | Yeah , well the easy way for them to assess him is have a look at his tests , and if he has n't done any , then they 'll just assess him on what he can do . |