Example sentences of "[vb base] on [art] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Update on The Gardeners ' Memorial Garden |
| 2 | For these reasons alone many surveyors decide not to send letters in advance and rely on the interviewers ' skills in being able to explain to people on their doorsteps what the survey is about and why they should help with it . |
| 3 | The explicit theoretical approach which we adopted in 5 should certainly not be necessary ( unless our students are students of linguistics ! ) , but we will need forgive examples of alternative ways of ordering information in an English clause ( as we did with the John ate fish and chips sentence in 5.4 ) and then rely on the students ' ability to acquire a sense of which is contextually most suitable . |
| 4 | A man has been remanded on bail charged with possessing drugs after a police raid on a travellers ' camp . |
| 5 | Play on the adventurers ' terrors here . |
| 6 | The paper was prompted by the Law Society 's concern over the increasing cost of defaults — it estimates that claims against its compensation fund will reach £20m annually , mainly attributed to defaults of sole practitioners ( defaults within partnerships usually fall on the solicitors ' indemnity fund ) . |
| 7 | ONE of the major implications of the Braer tanker accident at the south end of Shetland in January is the effect of the oil spill on the Islands ' archaeology . |
| 8 | We have a duty , as the authority that extracts money from the taxpayer and then spends it on buying services for the taxpayer , to ensure that every pound we spend on the taxpayers ' behalf buys as much as it possibly can . |