Example sentences of "on which [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not he was a sound thinker , on which they could disagree , no one could doubt that they had a professor who loved his subject ; he bubbled with it . |
| 2 | Phenomena such as suggestion , attitude , state of mind etc were promptly given a concrete target on which they could operate . |
| 3 | The leaders of the non-Tory parties would have to discuss the principles on which they could agree and those on which they could not . |
| 4 | The leaders of the non-Tory parties would have to discuss the principles on which they could agree and those on which they could not . |
| 5 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 6 | Acceptable to all shades of political and military opinion , as well as to the Catholic Church , fascist Italy and Nazi Germany , yet not identified exclusively with any one of them , Franco was the common denominator on which they could all agree , for as long as the war demanded that particular interests be subordinated to the overall objective of defeating the common enemy . |
| 7 | We put in a new sink and Malcolm bought us a Baby Belling cooker , one electric ring on which we could heat a an of beans very , very slowly . |
| 8 | I was seeking a scrap of common ground on which we could mutually back away from the argument . |
| 9 | There were awkward times as well as good times , and subjects on which we could never agree . |
| 10 | Therefore , the only basis on which we could have a property tax and valuation would be on a national banding system because that would be understandable and objective . |
| 11 | That fine piece of legislation would have long since passed into law and we would have had lots of time to spend on Opposition days , motions of censure and other matters on which we could spend our time much more effectively . |
| 12 | People could borrow from the social fund , he said , and get money that was interest-free , but money was taken from their income support immediately , even though that support was meant to be the lowest level of income on which one could cope . |
| 13 | It 's not something on which one could fault the Victorians , for instance . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ How is Kathleen ? ’ she asked , to give herself some time and in an effort to restore the conversation to a level on which she could cope . |
| 15 | She now had three of that lady 's outfits in the wardrobe and there had not yet been an occasion on which she could wear one of them : the last one had been a winter coat sporting a large fur collar , and the previous one , as Miss Belle called it , an afternoon tea gown . |
| 16 | She hung on to the towelling and the scissors , and then looked around the dismal room to find a clean surface on which she could put them . |
| 17 | But , of course , there was nothing on which she could strike the flint . |
| 18 | He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper . |
| 19 | And one looks at the two most likely existing settlements on which you could do that to are , of course , Easingwold , to the Nor to the Northwest , and Tadcaster to the South . |
| 20 | He was a Stradivarius among performers ; a perfect instrument on which you could play anything . |
| 21 | First , the range of choice at local level seems , if anything , to have been reduced as a consequence of a series of tighter and tighter rules , first on levels of expenditure and then on activities on which it could be spent . |
| 22 | Mr. Marston says that the court therefore has material on which it could confirm the order made by the justices , notwithstanding the way they dealt with the matter . |
| 23 | In what many observers regarded as a further example of the new censorship , Gosteleradio on Feb. 1 withdrew from Radio Russia two frequencies giving it an audience throughout the Soviet Union , and assigned to it instead a frequency on which it could reach only 60 per cent of the population and which reduced the quality of reception . |
| 24 | The king never turned up and the laird was left with paths on which he could hold a formula one race . |
| 25 | Heard that he had a walkie-talkie radio on which he could give the engineer instructions to slow down further , and to stop . |
| 26 | He knew that he still had certain assets on which he could raise cash . |
| 27 | There were two bases on which he could have been convicted , either that the jury accepted that he had fetched the knife from his home , or , alternatively , that he had obtained the knife during the struggle but that they were satisfied that the essentials of self-defence were not made out . |
| 28 | Where were the luscious slave-girls with swelling breast and buttocks like ripe fruit , on which he could feed his harmless , middle-aged lechery ? |
| 29 | Sixty years later , in a yet more striking case , the newly arrived Russian ambassador to Denmark , finding that the king , Christian V , was in bed and too ill to receive him , insisted on having another bed provided on which he could lie side by side with the king so that they could talk . |
| 30 | The drop down to half-moon Rhossili Bay below me was almost sheer , and the sea was striped with shimmering blue and white as endlessly long parallel lines of surf moved in slow motion towards the expanse of sand , on which I could just make out a few figures as tiny specks . |