Example sentences of "on what can be " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Lively discussions ’ are expected in the congress on what can be done to help the casualties of economic reform .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Choice , however limited in scope , implies debate , and debate implies a degree of freedom , even if limits are set on what can be debated .
10 There is an increasing awareness that there are limitations on what can be assessed by formal written tests or examinations .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 However , the fluidity of our use of language places limitations on what can be done with these searching tools .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 I am working with them on what can be done to help them as soon as possible . ’
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