Example sentences of "limit to [Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meat was often sold on stalls in the villages , but there was a limit to what one could buy . |
| 2 | When you are talking about 12,000 children , many only young teenagers , there is a limit to what they can do for themselves and the help of the aid community is obviously vital . |
| 3 | Mr Threlfall said : ‘ There is a physical limit to what we can do ; this was one of those unfortunate occasions . ’ |
| 4 | There has to be a limit to what you can do . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There 's a limit to what you can think about God . ’ |
| 6 | But , since there is really no limit to what it might be desirable to know about such matters , the sensible fieldworking anthropologist will recognize his limitations of resources , time and expertise . |
| 7 | There seemed no limit to what it could achieve . |
| 8 | ‘ There is practically no limit to what I can think of . ’ |
| 9 | There 's a limit to what I can endure . ’ |
| 10 | There was a limit to what she could make out , given the angle and that she was trying to see the page upside-down , but what she saw was enough to confirm that this book , or perhaps its predecessor for the previous year , had the potential to tell her exactly what she most needed to know . |