Example sentences of "[vb base] on [art] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Charlie returned , he instructed Pet , ‘ Run over the road and knock on the McDougalls ' door . |
| 2 | Update on The Gardeners ' Memorial Garden |
| 3 | A bad snap on a Colts ' punt attempt later gave Pittsburgh the ball on the Indianapolis 34 and Malone connected with Brenberg for the final Steelers ' first half score with 1:03 remaining . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A man has been remanded on bail charged with possessing drugs after a police raid on a travellers ' camp . |
| 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 . |