Example sentences of "on [Wh det] can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beside it is a small round table on which can be seen a photograph of my wife and me with our three elder children ; then there is an armchair also with a long seat and a dark-blue dog bed for our two spaniels beside another table with books and magazines . |
| 2 | The story of a children 's Christmas , climaxing in a party , comes towards the lower end of these two extremes , and we are going to take it as the plot on which can be built an interesting home movie . |
| 3 | The figure is seated on a throne on which can be read the text : ‘ Friend of kings , Per-Neb the chamberlain and courtier ’ ( est. £600,000–800,000 ; $918,000–1,224,000 ) . |
| 4 | The general form of their relationship has been expressed in Hammond 's cognitive continuum , on which can be mapped any of the processes by which we gain knowledge of our environment . |
| 5 | Standard thin sections required for teaching collections or archive purposes can now be given self-adhesive labels on which can be written all the details of the sample . |
| 6 | The long term aim is to provide evidence on which can be based policies for effective school provision . |
| 7 | ‘ Lively discussions ’ are expected in the congress on what can be done to help the casualties of economic reform . |
| 8 | Built-in furniture is also worth consideration at an early stage , as there will be a strict limit on what can be brought up through a loft hatch or new stairway . |
| 9 | The derivation of original research proposals is never easy , but to participate in their creation and perhaps to stimulate or catalyse them can be very exciting when there are no artificial restrictions on what can be done . |
| 10 | As we have seen , there are distinct limitations on what can be achieved by way of conditions on a planning permission ; this can often be as awkward for the developer as it is for the planning authority . |
| 11 | The practical limits on what can be achieved by laws have been illustrated repeatedly in recent years in the United Kingdom in connection with trade union legislation . |
| 12 | The whole character of faith is that it does not rest on itself , nor on what can be seen as an extension of itself , but on what is quite other than itself , by which its own emptiness is filled . |
| 13 | The weaknesses which strike the economy as a whole — scarcities , changeovers from design to mass production — are , even in the defence sector , the principal constraints on what can be produced and how . |
| 14 | In the main the structure is permissive ; with some exceptions , setting limits on what can be done rather than laying down by law what must be done . |
| 15 | Choice , however limited in scope , implies debate , and debate implies a degree of freedom , even if limits are set on what can be debated . |
| 16 | There is an increasing awareness that there are limitations on what can be assessed by formal written tests or examinations . |
| 17 | At around the same time , the effects were being felt of a new system ( introduced by the government in 1995 ) of individual budgets for each prison — in effect cash limits on what can be spent on staff in each prison — which has also been blamed for giving rise to understaffing . |
| 18 | As the resources required to meet all demands are likely to exceed those available to society the ethical questions arise in decisions on what can be afforded , in terms of both the total amount of resources to be spent on health care compared with other demands such as education or housing and the distribution of those resources . |
| 19 | Based mainly on a very close examination of all surviving copies of the print , and in particular on what can be deduced from the erasure of page numbers , Butler has reconstructed two distinct layers of composition . |
| 20 | However , the fluidity of our use of language places limitations on what can be done with these searching tools . |
| 21 | We shall also see that certain syntactic rules appear at least to be sensitive to implicature , and that implicature puts interesting constraints on what can be a possible lexical item in natural languages . |
| 22 | Catherine Hobaiter , 11 , of Redcar , a pupil at Teesside High School , was runner-up in a national newspaper competition to write a letter in no more than 20 words to Environment Minister David Trippier on what can be done for the environment . |
| 23 | I am working with them on what can be done to help them as soon as possible . ’ |