Example sentences of "on which [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newspapers welcome with open arms a regular , efficient news service on which they can rely . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is something on which they can rely and something that their colleagues in other countries will find difficult to deny . |
| 4 | In a planted pond the fish will find plenty of algae and insect larvae on which they can feed in order to survive . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is an expanding market of course and potential sponsors are constantly searching for an appropriate product on which they can lavish their money . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And that entire pool of knowledge then becomes a single resource on which we can draw in solving our problems . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There is always a hard core of trusty stalwarts on which we can depend but most people are not by nature volunteers . |
| 18 | The present convention is long established and provides a basis on which we can stand . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | However , as I have said previously , we now have a quality portfolio of international assets on which we can build in the future . |
| 23 | It said the code represented a ‘ foundation for good practice and ethical conduct … on which we can build the growing reputation of the industry ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The purpose is not to is not to train in the sense of imparting knowledge to people who do n't have it , but rather to put whatever experience they have into context , on which we can have something to contribute . |
| 26 | I 'm very well aware that the director before me built a very stable platform on which we can operate , and that we 're lucky to have a region that 's so rich in talent , erm in artistic talent , and in enthusiasm . |
| 27 | ‘ The signs are that we can work together on a more certain basis , that we can find principles on which we can agree . ’ |
| 28 | The choice is based on the health/vitality level , degree of pathology , suppression , sensitivity etc. and provides a variable on which we can individualize . |
| 29 | Despite there being no mention on the sleevenotes , it 's the kind of album on which one can sense the contribution of MTV and American radio programmers retained as ‘ production consultants ’ . |
| 30 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |