Example sentences of "[vb base] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MARK HATELEY , the man who launched Rangers towards a £5 million European Cup fortune , today declared : ‘ Bring on AC Milan . ’ |
| 2 | Headaches are stupefying , benumbing and bring on confusion of mind . |
| 3 | Erm and then there 's , there will be obviously a knock on effect in erm depending on who 's appointed . |
| 4 | By er failing even once to meet a reasonable demand for a for something to eat in a short period of time , then there 's a knock on effect to our business . |
| 5 | Turning now very briefly to the H One D the Greater York issue , clearly the comments I 've made about the calculations for York have a knock on effect for our position on Greater York , the Greater York figures as I understand it from the County Council are based on a one hundred percent migration assumption , if the technical difference between us er we are right then we believe clearly the Greater York figure should be increased by an appropriate amount , and the we 've suggested the increased cut should be seven hundred er relating to the city itself I ca n't calculate with any great accuracy what the figure for the surrounding parts of Greater York might be , but it would be we suspect only another one to two hundred more on top of that , therefore that underst explains the reason why the City Council suggests that the Greater York should be increased to the ten four figure from the nine seven . |
| 6 | The that is the kind of knock on effect we experience . |
| 7 | Secondly the deliveries of the equipment from the equipment suppliers who had been selected er generally fell behind the promises which they had made , so the main reason for the technical delays has been lack of equipment of the correct standard to proceed with the integration programme erm the erm the problems which beset the programme in nineteen ninety two after the German minister started questioning its future clearly had a direct bearing on that because many of the equipment suppliers , particularly those in Germany , suddenly began to think hey this programme is not going anywhere , why should we invest a lot of effort and and money into it and they slowed down so that has had a knock on effect in in terms of delaying the total programme and erm the result of all of that has been that the current development programme schedule which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 8 | And I 'm just wondering what the the knock on effect of that is in the visiting of the , the members who ca n't get into church and who ca n't receive communion in church , and who may like to receive it in their home , or in the home , where they live . |
| 9 | Falls on Wall Street had a knock on effect in London and by the close , the Footsie one hundred was down eighteen point three at two O eight three point six . |
| 10 | Wear drag ( Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot , Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie ; put on weight ( Robert De Niro in Raging Bull , Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment ) ; even a sex change ( Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria , John Lithgow in The World According to Garp ) . |
| 11 | When I was young I was like a stick insect , then at fourteen or fifteen I put on weight . |
| 12 | While it is a fact that we often eat much more than we imagine we do ( try writing down everything you eat over a period of a week and prove the point ) , it is a fact that some people put on weight far more quickly than others . |
| 13 | Statistics show that 12 per cent of this lumpy skin is formed in puberty , 16 per cent occurs when women put on weight and 27 per cent forms just before the menopause begins . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , a diet high in carbohydrates meant that some women not only put on weight but also stopped wearing their corsets . |
| 15 | Young players slow down as their bodies put on weight … especially thin little shits like Sharpe . |
| 16 | ‘ C'm on luv , ’ she shouted . |
| 17 | ‘ C'm on boy ’ he ordered ( he always called me boy ) ‘ I want a fish . |
| 18 | C'm on BOSS : Zoff and Oddi look bemused as an animated Gazza tries to make his point |
| 19 | The archetype of these harridans is the Glasgow clippie of c'm on gerraff fame . |
| 20 | hang on Gal , or C like jumping off a cliff into the sea |
| 21 | ‘ I think you 've lost hope , and the only thing I can tell you is that if you hang on hope will come back , and you must n't do anything until it does . ’ |
| 22 | Hang on hang on metal and acid say think of the zinc and which acid was it we used H two S O four , what did the zinc do to the hydrogen ? |
| 23 | Solicitors there 's no way you ca n't not fight it , in the beginning you can just go guilty and he said hang on minute let me just read it through he said no , he said you 've got to go and do it . |
| 24 | Hang on love . |
| 25 | removal , hang on Setup does not modify boot drive |
| 26 | Hang on man . |
| 27 | Oh hang on mum 's getting that . |
| 28 | Hang on mum I 'm not ready . |
| 29 | A couple of girls go past and they got this red sparkly stuff wrapped round their necks — you know , a sort of silvery string they hang on Christmas trees . |
| 30 | ‘ We pass on knowledge to our trading partners , telling them what we see to be the benefits , and what some of our other customers have found to be the benefits . |