Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of getting everyone away is to isolate them from mundane worries so that they can concentrate wholeheartedly on the task in hand . |
| 2 | Perhaps the greatest restrictions are that he or she can act only on the request of an MP and the only weapon available is to publicize the misdeeds . |
| 3 | Interview schedules can fall anywhere on a scale from the completely structured to the completely unstructured , and many include questions of several types within the same schedule . |
| 4 | Use a small selected group , say between four and eight , so that the audience can focus easily on the points you are making . |
| 5 | Co-operation can focus mainly on the R , the D , or it can couple joint R&D with the joint production and marketing of the output of that R&D , and it can be structured around sharing costs , restrictions put on the other R&D activities of participants , and rules which govern the production and marketing of the output affected by the joint R&D project . |
| 6 | All this means that Mr Ciampi can count only on the same thin majority that sustained his predecessor . |
| 7 | The news means ACE has now effectively lost two of its main founder members — if MIPS ' submission to Silicon Graphics Inc is n't counted — and at best can count only on the flirtatious attention of Digital Equipment Corp and Microsoft Corp , who are conducting their own extra-marital affair . |
| 8 | ( 1986 ) predict that children will be able to distinguish between causes and effects on the basis of information about generative transmission before they can do so on the basis of information about temporal priority . |
| 9 | However , deciding whether a particular consideration is relevant , whether a particular object is within the allowable range , whether an adequate hearing has been given to interested parties , and whether the reasons ultimately provided are sufficient , are all factors which can encroach indirectly on the merits . |
| 10 | Melanomas can appear anywhere on the body , but the legs are most often affected . |
| 11 | In the case of the couple or family considering the costs and benefits of a future child , the explicit consideration of rates of discount is rather different in that children are perceived to be a positive asset from early on in life but particularly after fifteen years or so when they can work effectively on the farm ( and so replace costly paid labour at times of peak labour demand ) or as a wage labourer . |
| 12 | ‘ The signs are that we can work together on a more certain basis , that we can find principles on which we can agree . ’ |
| 13 | The erm the first part of the erm the journey which I take every morning as you can see even on a nice spring morning fortunately , half past six , nothing on the roads . |
| 14 | And you can see more on the problems of noise nuisance in Oxford in the Tuesday Special , tonight on Central at seven thirty . |
| 15 | It can occur anywhere on the body . |
| 16 | It has just announced special tools which will allow developers to write products for the unlaunched Windows NT which can run immediately on the new Windows 3.1 . |
| 17 | By doing so , I hope to show that the dialogue between believers and non-believers in God can proceed only on the basis of certain common assumptions . |
| 18 | Each country should grow what it can sell best on the international market . |
| 19 | Which I would like to aim to complete by lunchtime so we can resume afresh on the others at five thirty . |
| 20 | I think there are limits to what we can manage here on the premises because it disrupts life a bit . |
| 21 | Rigid frame steerables can stand vertically on the frame ends , and be held in that attitude by line tension if the handles are pegged to the ground by a stake . |
| 22 | Why , Alida thought , in the middle of stripping bare the great bed , why I can go away on a holiday ! |
| 23 | And I can go away on a holiday at last . |
| 24 | Scientific logic has put men on the moon , but seems incapable of solving the energy crisis or of providing the means whereby mankind can live purposefully on a finite planet with shrinking resources . |
| 25 | Round ships can come fast on the north wind , and our galleys will have the worst of it , facing them . ’ |
| 26 | We actively develop the toilet areas , the canteen facilities so that women are not left at home on a Saturday , that they can come together on a Saturday with their husbands and boyfriends and watch the game . |
| 27 | The methods with which the relation between knowledge and social groups shall be studied are necessarily interpretative because there are no objective , epistemological criteria which can arbitrate trans-historically on the nature of truth . |
| 28 | Walkers in a hurry can sneak across on a passenger ferry and over the facing hill on a cart track to Dundonnell , saving nearly twenty miles and the best part of a day . |
| 29 | We can talk more on the way . |
| 30 | Such a system can sit comfortably on the table in an interview room . |