Example sentences of "they [vb base] [to-vb] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To understand what the issue is really about , we must look more carefully at the premises they bring to bear on the discussion of reduction ; for this debate functions as a strait-jacket , stifling the very assumptions and aspirations which lie at the heart of the dispute . |
| 2 | Local authority loans for house purchase are more likely to be made to manual groups and they tend to concentrate on the purchase of older dwellings . |
| 3 | Tory vice-chairman Andrew Mitchell has written to all candidates asking if they want to remain on the list and requesting a new CV . |
| 4 | well no , but not on , to town , but there might be somewhere they want to go on the way |
| 5 | They want to build on the land . ’ |
| 6 | Now they want to build on the site , but the local council say it should be restored as part of the countryside . |
| 7 | This course , which is the only one of its type in Northern Ireland , is designed to cater for students who wish to study accounting and other related subjects before deciding whether they want to embark on the study of professional accountancy , or who wish to acquire sufficient knowledge of accounting before taking up employment . |
| 8 | region in terms of the general business conditions , or the second most optimistic so it 's not entirely surprising that they now say that they expect to invest on the back of the strength of that optimism . |
| 9 | They seem to act on the host 's nervous system in rather the same way as an addictive drug . |
| 10 | And they seem to work on the principle of allowing each other to do anything they like . |
| 11 | They have to rely on the Government 's goodwill . |
| 12 | They have to rely on the indulgence of their employers and the depth of their own pockets to take part . |
| 13 | You 're not required to know all that remember or indeed any of it because they have everything they need to know , particularly if they do the long tour , they have everything they need to know on the tour and everything they need to know about the furniture well pieces of furnitures . |
| 14 | Such as disaster may well result in the pondkeeper 's first introduction to fishkeeping periodicals and specialist clubs , when they really should have read up all they need to know on the subject and taken specialist advice beforehand . |