Example sentences of "can [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elite autonomy means simply that circumstances exist in which the political elites representing a given social group can bargain on behalf of ‘ their ’ communities without fearing that compromises will lead to their removal and the substitution of a new elite for the social group . |
| 2 | Saving on unavoidable costs : pay poll tax monthly ( rather than let the Council have free use of your money for a year ) ; use annual season tickets , which are substantially cheaper ; check if you can economise on energy use — within sensible limits as far as your family 's health is concerned . |
| 3 | The campaigners from Horseheath , near Haverhill , found support from their MP in their battle to stop South Cambridgeshire District Council revoking a licence allowing the village to use the 1.3 acre field so it can build on part of it . |
| 4 | She can stay on court for 6 or 7 hours . |
| 5 | Dry and cold you can stay on land all day long and the whole night through , but wet and cold is danger ! ’ |
| 6 | Also at this event the Champion of Oulton series continues with Graham Riley of Rochdale out to prove that he can stay on top of the contest and improve on his third place last year . |
| 7 | But also important is the information which a given topic can yield on neighbourhood norms and on general social and background information of value to the researchers . |
| 8 | It 's also pretty wet but with the ratchet block taking the strain out of controlling the sail I can concentrate on technique and having fun and respond to the gusts by sheeting in or sheeting out if I 'm overpowered and moving bodyweight in or out to suit the . |
| 9 | ‘ I hear you 're planning to retire so you can concentrate on writing , ’ Charles told me over tea one afternoon . |
| 10 | Once the tune comes fairly accurately , the teacher can concentrate on meaning , bringing out the basic elements of the situation . |
| 11 | Free from such cares , the craftsman can concentrate on quality rather than quantity . |
| 12 | Alternatively , you can concentrate on group maintenance , spend most of your time monitoring how members are reacting and responding to both feelings and unspoken messages . |
| 13 | No game can survive on history , even a history as glorious as that of cricket . |
| 14 | In this way RE continues to do what it should without trespassing outside its domain unduly — it can focus on religion , while the arts retain their integrity and are not treated like " visual aids " or " follow-up work " . |
| 15 | Students can count on company help to gain qualifications |
| 16 | The ‘ crisis ’ is now a crisis for at most two or three large US banks , which have good reason to believe they can count on government help if worse comes to worst . |
| 17 | Alternatively , in a more traditional diplomatic style , a country could be neutralised , preferably with its own consent ( if a viable political force which can speak on behalf of the nation or territory concerned can be identified ) through arrangements arrived at by the superpowers , perhaps at summit discussions , with or without the involvement of other Great Powers or regionally influential states . |
| 18 | White , for example , can blur on television . |
| 19 | This may be the case in some industries , or for some products but as , for example , both Moran 's study of the Chilean copper industry ( 1974 ) and Girvan 's of the Caribbean bauxite industry ( 1976 ) demonstrate in rather different ways , the control that globally integrated corporations can exert on distribution and marketing may nullify what appears on the ground to be a better bargain for the host . |
| 20 | This requires that each major service area within hospitals has a designated chief who can negotiate on behalf of colleagues with the hospital manager . |
| 21 | Here , almost for the first time I can remember on disc , his vibrato , relatively rapid and even , becomes distracting in sustained passages , which will trouble some ears more than others . |
| 22 | Make cardboard crowns ( your toddler can stick on paper stars for jewels ) and collect washable hats and scarves and dressing-up clothes from jumble sales . |
| 23 | A single small group can work on drama with one teacher whilst others get on with other ( related ) work . |
| 24 | These exercises , which are easily and quickly generated , can be presented to your students either as printed worksheets — you will be provided with the answers on a separate sheet — or can be put on to a floppy disk so that a student or group of students can work on screen . |
| 25 | A college football association is charged with conspiring to limit the number of college games that football fans can see on television . |
| 26 | But it 's kind of a shame , because I 'm only one element of blackness that you can see on television , and I 'll tell you , if I 'd been a kid and seen someone like me on telly , I 'd be a hell of a lot happier about the way I am in this world . ’ |
| 27 | Data General Corp and Digital Analysis Corp have developed an integrated network , system and application package which can be used with TCP/IP and OSI protocols : OS/EYE*NODE uses SNMP and CMIP/CMIS for control , monitoring and analysis and can run on Sun 's NetManager and Hewlett-Packard Co 's OpenView without further coding operating over Ethernet , token ring , X.25 or FDDI networks — no prices given . |
| 28 | Sun 's biggest US distributor Access Graphics has taken on Hummingbird 's HCL-exceed PC X servers which offers a Sun interface with X Windows applications and can run on top of PC-NFS : IBM Canada has also picked up the product to run off networked hosts like the RS/6000 . |
| 29 | As we are discussing groundstroke skills , I think it is important to stress that at the beginning , according to the shape of shot that you have — whether it be topspin , slice or flat — you can insist on slice only , topspin only , or on hitting your favoured shot . |
| 30 | How buildings fare in an earthquake can depend on design and materials . |