Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Jonadab always relied on the leaves for treating any horse which developed an infection or chill in the bladder .
2 Success or failure have thus depended on the devices by which a balance could be maintained between the preservative and the destructive effects of envy .
3 Prep schools have no secure catchment area , they have always depended on the forces of the market place for their survival .
4 Local and national sports bodies have also objected on the grounds that the scheme would take away open space that could be used as a public sports field for a town which the National Playing Fields Association says has a shortage of open space .
5 There are some who have corruptly manipulated the production of state factories for their own personal gain , there are some who have covertly passed on the writings of Alexander Solzhenitsyn .
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