Example sentences of "[vb base] their [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They base their prognosis on the aggressive new product development and marketing that has been Cadbury 's hallmark in recent years . |
| 2 | Typically organisations require employees to obtain two or three estimates and base their payment on the lowest one . |
| 3 | And although the majority of materialist philosophers base their belief in the neurophysiological theory of perception on arguments rather than observations , they are , nevertheless , greatly influenced by the apparent successes of neurophysiology . |
| 4 | Some place their emphasis upon the transcendent otherness of God and the traditional ‘ good ’ music which expresses it . |
| 5 | Editor , — David E Mutton and colleagues report their analysis of the national Down 's syndrome register for 1989–91 . |
| 6 | You know , she 'd say , they cook their cabbage in the same water as the bacon . |
| 7 | When they were n't , we rafting rookies would leave the boats and watch the guides skilfully manoeuvre their way through the thundering foam . |
| 8 | Now the larger giant supertankers bring their oil to the deep water terminal at Finnart , on the western fjord coast , and a new pipeline carries it to Grangemouth . |
| 9 | The men fish and sell their catch along the little promenade . |
| 10 | At this meeting the divisions review their performance in the current year and present and answer questions on their plans for the following year . |
| 11 | Entrants had to pick one of the four sections and develop their design from the abstract ideas that they found there . |
| 12 | Thus most Ulster Catholics want Ulster to be merged with Eire in a united Ireland ; Ulster Protestants vigorously oppose such a policy and stress their loyalty to the British Crown . |
| 13 | The problem with environmental legislation of every kind is that , while we all applaud the intentions , we know automatically that the large-scale offenders have their own scientists , barristers , public-relations campaigns and representation in the House of Lords , that government inspectorates are hopelessly understaffed , and that consequently , at a local level , the enforcers concentrate their attention on the small fry who lack the time and resources to answer back . |
| 14 | The main advantage with this system would be that players from junior clubs could get noticed by selectors and make their way up the representative ladder without having to move clubs . |
| 15 | All make their contribution to the British Army , which is organised so that they can remain intensely proud of their Englishness , Irishness , Scottishness and Welshness , while fighting for Britain . |
| 16 | People who make their living in the informal sector are also required to pay all kinds of petty taxes , including business licenses , market charges and fees to government officials before permits can be issued . |
| 17 | He was very untypical of the modern world who dislike the modern world and make their dislike of the modern world perfectly evident of other people |
| 18 | But by harnessing this useful emotion we restrict their sinning to the erotic sphere , and produce a countervailing integrity in their governing . |
| 19 | They are eventually forced to abandon these reputations as their actions ultimately reveal their type to the short term players . |
| 20 | Instead , they focus their attention on the negative behaviours they do not want . |
| 21 | It is perhaps understandable why these men , who earn their livelihood in the very embrace of the Goddess of the South Seas , should take her so seriously , but it came as more of a surprise that the Sultan of Surakarta should do the same . |
| 22 | National styles have been blurred by the diaspora of players in search of money — most of this summer 's Brazilian squad , for example , earn their living in the Italian league , and as a result the national team has inherited a less flamboyant , more pragmatic European style of play . |
| 23 | To ease the changeover , the Membership Working Party had recommended that the September Medau News feature an article about Membership which would particularly thank group secretaries , who we would like to call class secretaries in future , for all their past efforts and seek their co-operation with the new system . |
| 24 | Women even cut their hair in the same style . |
| 25 | King Priam 's widow Hecuba and other women await their fate from the victorious Greeks . |
| 26 | When Panama City awakened , and after I had taken a small breakfast of pineapple , café con leche and a hard roll or two , I rented a small white Japanese car , acquired a map from the official cartographers who conduct their business under the curious name of the Instituto Geografico Nacional Tommy Guardia , and set out to look for Santa Fé , for William — and for the Pacific . |
| 27 | Intermittent war rages across Ulthuan once more as the Dark Elves consolidate their hold on the northern lands . |
| 28 | The Lothian FWAG initiative is about to enter its second three year period and I am pleased that the financial support for this is virtually in place as the local authorities individually announce their commitment to the extended funding . |
| 29 | Proprietors do appoint editors and chief-executives ; they decide budgets and manning levels and they put their imprint on the total organizations . |
| 30 | Parsons believes that in the schoolroom the children acquire their attachment to the larger social order of adult society which is reflected in the methods of giving and getting encouraged in school . |