Example sentences of "could [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Falconer is facing compulsory redundancy and has been told that she could stay on the staff if she accepts demotion to ordinary lecturer — a post already held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 2 | She has , however , been informed that she could remain on the RGU staff if she accepted a demotion to ordinary lecturer — the post held by her sister , Mrs Barbara Diack , who , in turn , would lose her job . |
| 3 | He hoped Great Britain would support Austria-Hungary against Russia and that Germany could remain on the fence . |
| 4 | Mrs Falconer , a senior lecturer in textiles , has been told there is funding for only one textile lecturer in the school , but that she could remain on the staff if she accepted demotion to ordinary lecturer — a post already held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 5 | On Sotheby 's activities in Berlin he was candid about the difficulties experienced by this ‘ very interesting experiment ’ so far but felt that the company could build on the pool of new private ( West ) German buyers that had emerged from the sales . |
| 6 | We could picnic on the grounds of the Villa Borghese . ’ |
| 7 | I wonder if you could comment on the possibility of putting a Land Rover 5 bearing diesel engine into my 6 cylinder 109 inch chassis . |
| 8 | I should be grateful if the Under-Secretary could comment on the way in which housing benefit is calculated . |
| 9 | Yes , if I could comment on the traffic calming . |
| 10 | The House of Lords , while accepting that some elements of natural justice could apply to investigations and preliminary determinations , held that an opportunity to see the counter-statement was not required : no final decision was being made and if the taxpayer could comment on the counter-statement the Commissioners would wish to comment on those comments , thereby producing an endless succession of exchanges , bringing the administration to a standstill . |
| 11 | ‘ Black people are the original people of the Earth , no one could exist on the planet without us and we must wake up , to struggle and do what we have to do to come into power , ’ announces Chester , striding across the stage , as the audience cheers . |
| 12 | They could knock on the door , or they could sell send their servants ! |
| 13 | It was also felt that it was a company which nobody could attack on the grounds of political bias in favour of the project — if anything , thought Walsh , the other way round , after he had seen a portrait of Margaret Thatcher prominently displayed in its Ealing headquarters . |
| 14 | The pile of the arrow could catch on the inside of the bow . |
| 15 | There was no evidence yet that Isabella enjoyed widespread support in England , and Edward no doubt felt he could count on the loyalty of the nobles to whom he committed responsibility for the defence of the south coast . |
| 16 | She could count on the fingers of one hand the people she actually enjoyed having on the premises ; most of her other visitors she merely tolerated and a few of them had the power to make her feel violated . |
| 17 | Soviet leaders could count on the support of most states in the region for a general demilitarisation and limitation of superpower military presence in the Mediterranean . |
| 18 | He also believed , first , that France was unlikely to be able to secure an alliance with Britain ( because of the two countries ' disagreement about the Near East in 1840 ) ; second , that Britain might support Russia in the event of a Russian attack on the Ottoman Empire ( because of the Anglo-Russian discussions which had taken place in London in 1844 ) ; and third , that in any event he could count on the support of Austria ( because of the assistance he had rendered Vienna in putting down the Hungarians in 1849 ) . |
| 19 | Now , I could count on the thumbs of my right hand the times I 've forgotten myself in a theatre . |
| 20 | If Argyll could count on the friendship of the Earl of Selkirk , who had friends on the burgh council , the Galloway interest might prove to be less impregnable than was commonly believed , for two of the councillors were ‘ considerable tenants to Lord Selkirk whose leases are near expir 'd ’ . |
| 21 | Last night just days after management at the Darlington Arts Centre said there would be no space in the autumn programme for the festival Darlington Council 's recreation committee chairman , Labour councillor Dot Long , said the town 's Campaign for Real Ale could count on the venue . |
| 22 | And then last year Branson sold the music business to Thorn E M I for five hundred and sixty million pounds so he could focus on the airline , which was losing money . |
| 23 | Thus , as the BMA ( 1989 ) points out , ‘ these costs would be beyond the control of the general practitioners but could fall on the budget ’ . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the greater forces would be assembled in the forest : the fire in the sloop should act as a decoy , so that the army of over five hundred warriors could fall on the settlement while its defenders were distracted , sweeping down on them , while they flapped around the burning ship , from the rainforest where they would be concealed till then . |
| 25 | As everyone is close to the ground anyway they will not hurt themselves , except possibly the last one who could fall on the floor . |
| 26 | The Greek and Turkish members of the Commission were not delegates of their respective States who could act on the instructions of the member States , but members of an administrative body . |
| 27 | The constable need not have witnessed the conduct in question before he utters his warning ; he could act on the basis of a report that he received from a person who has been caused harassment , alarm or distress , or on the report of somebody who has witnessed it . |
| 28 | The earliest the Treasury could act on the tax front , would be March 1991 . |
| 29 | There is a real danger here that other publishers could jump on the Reed bandwagon , and force wholesalers to buy at less advantageous discount and credit terms . ’ |
| 30 | Television sets were rare and people watched in groups ; in the oases of the south it was customary to watch television out of doors in the cool of the summer evening , where any person who happened to pass by could sprawl on the sand . |