Example sentences of "could [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home , women may have all the rights they could want on paper , but they often vanish in a cloud of prejudice when you try to put them into practice ! |
| 2 | She could drive the golf cart and he could wait on tables . |
| 3 | We could standardize on US equipment with production under licence of those items that it is practicable and economic to manufacture in Western Europe . |
| 4 | Other ports dealt very much in the coastal trade ; if sea transport was expensive , land transport was prohibitively costly , and very slow , so that a number of small ports could flourish on goods being taken from one part of England to another . |
| 5 | In the event of loss or damage , carriers , shippers , consignees and their financiers could count on sets of insurers to pay the claims . |
| 6 | I knew I could count on friends and colleagues to support a campaign . |
| 7 | As husband of Louis VII 's sister , Constance , Raymond of Toulouse could count on help from his brother-in-law . |
| 8 | If James was right and they could count on contingents from every part of the strath , they would be a force indeed — a mass big enough to frighten the most assured gentleman . |
| 9 | SHe knew it was unlikely SHe could count on Alix 's discretion , but the need for medical backup had been worth the disclosures . |
| 10 | They could focus on content : |
| 11 | They could focus on performance : |
| 12 | They could focus on language production : |
| 13 | Jim Gladwell ( Velo RT ) did not compete last year but was winner of the inaugural league in 1991 and , if fit , could win on Sunday . |
| 14 | If not much is known about the properties of operators which could act on N and its children , then the plan may be misleading . |
| 15 | ‘ I could jump on Ronald 's back , ’ she says , demonstrating , ‘ and be like a fly on his shirt . ’ |
| 16 | But the walls were heavy and thick , quarried stone ; that you could leap-frog on top , and there must ( the tenements ) be generations of kids up there . |
| 17 | Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team . |
| 18 | Coleridge had struggled hard with Osorio , and even now he had little faith that it could succeed on stage . |
| 19 | The funeral was held in the morning of 23 October , so that Ken could appear on stage in The Private Ear and the Public Eye for a matinee that day . |
| 20 | Hampton Ferry lower swims best , bream could show on pegs in the low 30s . |
| 21 | There was nothing that Trent could do on deck . |
| 22 | Norman Wisdom was snapped by up Rank after he had proved what he could do on TV , and the cosy cop series Dixon of Dock Green ( 1955–76 ) was clearly a lineal descendant of Ealing 's The Blue Lamp . |
| 23 | A statement was issued from Ibrox yesterday detailing the unsatisfactory nature of the dealings with Bernard Tapie 's club , while expressing regret that there was nothing more Rangers could do on behalf of their now disgruntled fans . |
| 24 | Nothing they could do on earth would affect this destiny . |
| 25 | She had by then married and was living in Pakistan where , she found , she could look on events from a distance and see them more vividly . |
| 26 | It illustrated up-to-date transport , such as rotor powered ships , the rotors being driven by the wind , and buses that could run on railway lines . |
| 27 | He watched as Anne stood outside the house , telling Chrissie of what had happened , and he did n't like the clear signs of distress that he could see on Chrissie Stone 's pale features . |
| 28 | ‘ The theme of the story was that something very sinister had happened a long time ago which had left the planet looking entirely different from anywhere you could see on Earth . |
| 29 | We could see on limestone crags the sooty marks left by Tom in his desperate bid to escape . |
| 30 | The minimum number of hours a student could work on language varied wildly , probably because of the variable interpretations of ‘ language work ’ referred to above . |