Example sentences of "on [Wh det] [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increased awareness is the basis on which they can be developed . |
| 2 | ‘ Does the profession — preparers and auditors — want the new regime to give them principles on which they can use their professional judgment or are they looking for a cookbook ? |
| 3 | Newspapers welcome with open arms a regular , efficient news service on which they can rely . |
| 4 | This may well be why older children do succeed at these tasks — they have independent resources on which they can rely — but it seems less convincing as a reason for the failure of younger children . |
| 5 | In a planted pond the fish will find plenty of algae and insect larvae on which they can feed in order to survive . |
| 6 | This information can assist individuals in developing an awareness of the areas of strength on which they can build , and areas of relative weakness which need to be developed . |
| 7 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend consider advising local authorities — which still seem to be unaware of their present powers on which they can act and circulating information to them to tell them that if they want to come down on Sunday traders , the statute book in Britain already gives them that authority ? |
| 8 | It is something on which they can rely and something that their colleagues in other countries will find difficult to deny . |
| 9 | In 1824 a retrospective view regretted as one of the social costs of enclosure that " the poor have no place on which they can amuse themselves in summer evenings , when the labour of the day is over , or when a holiday occurs " . |
| 10 | This is an expanding market of course and potential sponsors are constantly searching for an appropriate product on which they can lavish their money . |
| 11 | ‘ It is my view they need an era of increased certainty which can now be built on the foundation of recent reform decisions and on which they can , with far more confidence than has been the case in the past , base and plan their futures . ’ |
| 12 | Everything I have seen and heard in the ensuing months reinforces my belief that drift-netting is a manifestation of an attitude which , unchecked , will in due course murder the only planet on which we can make our home . ’ |
| 13 | The choice is based on the health/vitality level , degree of pathology , suppression , sensitivity etc. and provides a variable on which we can individualize . |
| 14 | There is always a hard core of trusty stalwarts on which we can depend but most people are not by nature volunteers . |
| 15 | I do not see the theological basis on which we can go on saying that the human species is of such overwhelming and unique and colossal significance that it justifies as a matter of course the institutional exploitation of billions of other species . |
| 16 | The present convention is long established and provides a basis on which we can stand . |
| 17 | We have been living in a jungle all our lives and we have struggled to bring our minds into cultivation but without hope and suddenly we have found this meadow of cleared land on which we can plant our gardens . |
| 18 | This is one subject on which we can not give a firm recommendation . |
| 19 | The cross of Jesus is God 's final and decisive ‘ No ! ’ to all that : it leaves us literally nothing of our own on which we can rely . |
| 20 | Still , there 's one overriding opinion on which we can all agree . |
| 21 | And similarly we must not allow ourselves to look for something below that practice on which we can ground the feeling that the practice is going on in an objectively correct way . |
| 22 | That 's good news in itself , but it 's also good in that it provides a bedrock on which we can build sustainable recovery of output and and job creation . |
| 23 | And that entire pool of knowledge then becomes a single resource on which we can draw in solving our problems . |
| 24 | However , as I have said previously , we now have a quality portfolio of international assets on which we can build in the future . |
| 25 | As for the question of partnership and friendship in the 1990s , the joint declaration that we signed sets out a series of bases on which we can improve our relationship with Russia . |
| 26 | However , the dimensions on which we can locate units , such as people , in some property space can be of different kinds and certainly of more than two dimensions . |
| 27 | What we need is , firstly , a more specific indication of what is meant by a route to chaos and , secondly , some ideas on which we can draw in Sections 24.5 and 24.7 . |
| 28 | We have the Association for the Disabled for the blind , we have Age Concern but there is n't a for the mentally or for mental health or for whatever it might be called , and these groups are very useful in providing a focal point for liaison between statutory organizations , including the health service , and the users and carers , and providing points of lobbying concern , points on which we can comment and that that increasingly is the way we 're working in the community care consultation process . |
| 29 | It said the code represented a ‘ foundation for good practice and ethical conduct … on which we can build the growing reputation of the industry ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ The signs are that we can work together on a more certain basis , that we can find principles on which we can agree . ’ |