Example sentences of "[noun] on [pron] [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But , since she could n't do anything about the car situation until that wretched part had been delivered , should n't she concentrate her worries on what she could do something about ? |
| 3 | He was a Stradivarius among performers ; a perfect instrument on which you could play anything . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Fief-rentes provided kings with a pool of mercenaries on whom they could call without having to compete in the open market with other war-lords . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was sent to be , commanded to be , the first completely human being , the first to be wholly at one with the human race , to be , therefore , wholly at risk from us , to be the victim , the scapegoat on whom we could project our guilt and our fear of being human , of being loved . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Amanda Tooth said that hard times made Antonia set her sights on someone who could help her make a name . |
| 11 | The council had done its best , formulating a writ to all sheriffs to issue proclamations forbidding the spreading of lying rumours that Richard was alive , and committing to prison all culprits on whom they could lay hands . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | To me , as to so many others , David was a friend on whom I could rely . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The grounds of relief were , inter alia , that there was a breach of natural justice and irrationality as there was no evidence on which there could have been a finding that the applicant had committed a breach of professional misconduct . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We miss her presence at head office — both as a character and a colleague on whom we could rely 100 per cent . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Kelly had no more rides on whom she could expunge the memory of that first race . |
| 22 | This may not matter too much if they have professional advisers on whom they could rely . |
| 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 | Sidonius , like the Late Antique authors on whom he modelled himself , had written such letters to ensure the existence of a pool of friends on whom he could count in times of need . |
| 25 | Then , before Spain , Niki managed to overturn a tractor on himself He could have been killed ; he escaped with cracked ribs and bad bruising . |
| 26 | A woman would be quite prepared to accept a wage lower than a male compositor 's , since it would probably still be a great improvement on what she could earn elsewhere . |
| 27 | Heard that he had a walkie-talkie radio on which he could give the engineer instructions to slow down further , and to stop . |
| 28 | At first this way to immortality was essentially a royal prerogative , but eventually similar rites were thought to confer immortality on anyone who could afford to imitate them . |
| 29 | He knew that he still had certain assets on which he could raise cash . |
| 30 | The king never turned up and the laird was left with paths on which he could hold a formula one race . |