Example sentences of "[vb base] on [adj] issues " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three members of the tribunal share the responsibility for decision making on appeals ; the lawyer and the lay members have an equal say on all issues whether of law or fact . |
| 2 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 3 | Even though hon. Members disagree on many issues , I believe that the House will agree that I have tried to make that a priority within the narrow band of the 17 or so per cent . |
| 4 | This dilemma is given prominence in the distinction that Nizan draws between " balance-sheet novels " ( " romans-bilan " ) , which take stock of a finalised historical period , and " problem-centred novels " ( " romans-probleme " ) which focus on contemporary issues . |
| 5 | Our comments focus on some issues relating to drug safety . |
| 6 | Like the views of their predecessors in classical Marxist thought , modern functionalist views do not regard it as useful or necessary to demonstrate the precise mechanisms by which state policy responds to structural imperatives ; instead they focus on macro-social issues and trends . |
| 7 | If MPs from south of the Border are to have no influence over certain matters in Scotland , why should Scottish MPs vote on parallel issues affecting England and Wales ? |
| 8 | ‘ Stagging ’ is the process by which investors speculate on new issues . |
| 9 | Concentrate on big issues and the broad outlines of projects . |
| 10 | Chapter 8 takes up another theme from chapter 6 : why managerial strategies concentrate on particular issues rather than others . |
| 11 | Supporters of the doctrine of neutral political concern differ on many issues . |
| 12 | After noting how local parties differ on major issues of expenditure , financial control , privatization , transport subsidies , rents and council house sales , they conclude that ‘ It is not surprising that the local electorate vote in response to local circumstances ’ ( Jones and Stewart , 1983 , p. 17 ) . |
| 13 | I like him for being a rebel , and we agree on several issues , although I am not sure I would go along with some of his proposals to abolish the monarchy and the House of Lords . |
| 14 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 15 | And it was very difficult to erm to get to get much activity going in the flats cos people 's people 's aim was to get out rather than to improve the conditions or or work on local issues . |
| 16 | In many countries , the industry has set up and funded organisations which work on these issues full-time . |