Example sentences of "and [vb base] [verb] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most controversially , they recommended stronger police powers to search and arrest brothel-keepers and make soliciting on the streets illegal . |
| 2 | If you are using a lot of roses in your pressed flower pictures , you may find it worthwhile making up a small stock of finished roses in different colours to save time when you are in an inspired mood and want to concentrate on a design rather than the various techniques involved . |
| 3 | They became involved in dismantling pipework , hydro testing and flange testing on the Eagle platform . |
| 4 | Maybe the smoker will realise how disgusting his habit is when he hopefully decides to kick it once and for all and stop relying on the NHS as a safety net . |
| 5 | It all but sunk Pompey and put United on the crest of the wave . |
| 6 | We enjoyed a lovely day in the sun and set sail on the return trip in time to be back in harbour before dark . |
| 7 | There followed a series of spider-like manoeuvres to negotiate the chimney-groove and become ensconced on the ledge belay . |
| 8 | Cos you did n't know whether they 'd had er you know had a lot to drink or had a load of drugs and start going on the rampage or something . |
| 9 | Make a slit in the side of each éclair and leave to cool on a wire rack . |
| 10 | But if you throw a live bird in the air it will not describe a parabola and come to rest on the ground . |
| 11 | Most of these studies have had a struggle to remain solvent , and have depended on the generosity of charitable foundations such as Nuffield and Ford , as well as finance from government agencies , often via the health services . |
| 12 | You had to lie on a board , his doctor said , oh it 's lumbago which , all the signs are the same , where that pain goes all down your leg effecting the or mia , sciatica and have to lie on a board , and we were in the prefab then and you actually er not , like some people put the board are you interested ? |
| 13 | Many have a serious addiction or illness and have lived on the streets for much of their lives . |
| 14 | These people are not ‘ different ’ — they are the same as you and I , except that they have lost the ability to use their legs and have to rely on a wheelchair to get about . |
| 15 | I want continuous ventilation in a bedroom and have decided on a trickle ventilator . |
| 16 | Research has also indicated that many members of the upper strata owe their position primarily to the fact that they have been born into those strata and have capitalized on the advantages provided by their social background . |
| 17 | Societal divisions are such that neighbourhood patrols are dangerous and have to take on the appearance of armed convoys , but it is the style of policing which comes nearest to breaching the divide between the police and the community , so that the RUC is required to be persistent in utilizing it even though there are few obvious signs of success and despite the cost in human life . |
| 18 | You have too much good sense not to discover that I , in spite of my heart and all the pride of it , can not but love you and have put on a behaviour to you that was much against my heart , in hopes to frighten you from your reservedness . |
| 19 | If you have already been offered a job and have agreed on a job description with your future service manager , then you may like to analyse it in the same way . |
| 20 | And have to sign on every fortnight . |
| 21 | They were Mr Gilbert , sound recordist Peter Edwards and cameraman Philip Bonham-Carter , both of whom are independent film-makers and have worked on the broadcast before . |
| 22 | The majority of studies have been in urban areas and have focused on the activities of building societies and finance institutions in the private sector ( Ford 1975 ; Boddy 1976 ; P. R. Williams 1976 , 1978 ; Short 1978 ) , and on the activities of housing managers in the public sector ( Gray 1976a , 1976b ; Paris and Lambert 1979 ) . |
| 23 | But it needs to be borne in mind that such connections are not an automatic or necessary consequence of the formal structure of the poetry ; they are the result of the reader 's bringing his own sensibility and experience to bear on the text , and interpreting it in the light of his own conscious or unconscious idea of the nature and function of literature . |
| 24 | As she moved off with the other mounted followers , Artemis determined that if her father thought it was time for her to stop riding ponies and learn to hunt on a horse , then so be it . |