Example sentences of "[noun pl] can [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Chairman , two points I want to make and er I get , I can link where the words can go on the top where under the leadership of County er survey , and the la at the end of that last paragraph . |
| 2 | If jealousy for the wife 's attentions can arise on the husband 's part , envy of the husband 's relative freedom can exist in the wife and mother . |
| 3 | Teachers who use these books can draw on the banks of ideas they provide to extend and diversify their current practice . |
| 4 | Scotch Whisky is the water of life for many remote islands and glens in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland , where whole communities can depend on the distillery . |
| 5 | These two cases also illustrate the effect that emotional blocks or upsets can have on the overall health of the individual . |
| 6 | ‘ Others more qualified than I am in these matters can comment on the economic sense or otherwise of the proposed pit closures . |
| 7 | On the Sulawesi warty pig 's native island , which it shares with the babirusa , its fortunes can depend on the religion of the people in the neighbourhood . |
| 8 | The restaurant overlooks the bay and in high season guests can dine on the terrace . |
| 9 | Tessa money in building societies is guaranteed a higher level of protection : investors can count on the return of 90% of their first £20,000 if the society goes broke . |
| 10 | Varying in size from about 30 to 150 , these teams can draw on the expertise of support groups dealing with specific areas such as material composition and structure , analysis and measurement , property characterization , electrochemical technology , process engineering and so on . |
| 11 | ‘ Customers can exchange on the same day , free of charge , ’ says chief dealer John Jackson . |
| 12 | These things can happen on the smallest scale — within one family , when a husband treats his wife as a breeding machine — or on a national or international scale , when entire ‘ populations ’ come under pressure from the planners , and individual human rights become as invisible as the individual people the word ‘ population ’ conveniently obscures . |
| 13 | These things can happen on the smallest scale — within one family , when a husband treats his wife as a breeding machine — or on a national or international scale , when entire ‘ populations ’ come under pressure from the planners , and individual human rights become as invisible as the individual human people the word ‘ population ’ conveniently obscures . |
| 14 | The speaker of the commons will rule today on whether MPs who are Lloyds names can vote on the finance bill . |
| 15 | Schoolcard holders can go on the bus if accompanied by no more than four adults — if they want to go by train they must have an Adult DayRover ; a Family DayRover is for two adults and three child permit holders or one adult and four child permit holders with dog . |
| 16 | Voluntary patients can register on the electoral roll and can have postal votes . |
| 17 | The International Air Transport Association Safety Committee has produced evidence of the serious effects operating electronic equipment in aircraft cabins can have on the flight management computers . |
| 18 | It includes as special cases both eqn ( 2.63 ) ( when Dn2 is zero inside the metal ) , and eqn ( 2.72 ) ( when both dielectrics are perfect so that no free charges can reside on the boundary surface ) . |
| 19 | With a number of programs running at one time , several windows can appear on the screen at one time . |
| 20 | No one yet knows if this sort of thing happens in a dying brain , but if it does , it might actually explain how many angels can dance on the head of a pin . |
| 21 | It is a bit like asking how many angels can dance on the head of a pin . |
| 22 | Will he also ask the manufacturers to consider the possibility of installing devices to enable stolen cars to be traced , so that if a terrorist murder is committed the police can get on the track quickly ? |
| 23 | The software that handles index building and additions can operate on the keys separately , while the size of the gap between key and data allows the data record to be transferred into main storage if it turns out to be the required record after examination of the key by the control unit . |
| 24 | They have told me about the effect that price cuts can have on the dairy sector . |
| 25 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 26 | Official information provides the basis on which voters can decide on the record of the government and accordingly make an informed electoral choice . |
| 27 | Disabled and able-bodied children can enrol on the course , which lasts for two hours each Saturday for six weeks and which offers expert tuition . |
| 28 | It means the cameras can focus on the lectern knowing that the speaker will always be placed in exactly the same position relevant to it . |
| 29 | They have been bitterly attacked by Beijing , which has said they must be dropped before talks can resume on the political future of the colony . |
| 30 | Similarly the engineering of plants to produce their own crop-protection chemicals and nutrients , especially nitrogen , could go some way towards offsetting the often detrimental side-effects that artificially produced pesticides and fertilisers can exert on the environment ( sections 6.3 and 6.4 ) . |