Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] on this " in BNC.
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| 1 | As children we tend to work on this and practise asking for what we want at every available opportunity . |
| 2 | I want to dwell on this subject a little while , to look at a few areas which are important and necessary and have their foundations in team spirit . |
| 3 | Yes , but I still want to stay on this equalizing thing . |
| 4 | And that 's part of what we want to offer on this news network . |
| 5 | Well unless there are any other issues that people want to rai any other items people want to raise on this issue , I propose we close now , resume at ten o'clock in the morning , and we will go straight into matters , well matter two C , to look at the di criteria . |
| 6 | Anything else you want to raise on this matter ? |
| 7 | Er before you come in Mr , erm I do n't know how many more points you want to raise on this to erm we have another session which starts at five thirty . |
| 8 | Now , the last thing I want to say , because I know we , our guest is here , and so presumably has collected his thoughts and is able to leap into the breach , the last thing I want to say on this is , writing articles , writing pieces , is a game , another area where practice makes perfect . |
| 9 | John Haden , headmaster of Wymondham College in Norfolk and chairman of the Boarding Schools Association , tried to get beyond dismal economics in his speech to the conference : ‘ I want to move on this week from value-added to added values … we need confidence in the values , moral and spiritual , which our schools uphold and celebrate ’ , he said . |
| 10 | Cost saving on this scale is particularly important in videodisc applications because videodiscs and their workstations are costly . |
| 11 | It is noticeable how Dynasty , Dallas , and many other soaps on TV tend to focus on this kind of human weakness , often exploiting covetousness . |
| 12 | Instantly the wheels begin turning on this deal , my enthusiasm wanes . |
| 13 | So long as the fish enjoy feeding on this natural food , it is worth continuing the practice . |
| 14 | Adviser and advisor are often alternatives ; -ize endings are gradually being replaced by -ise , but newspapers and publishers seem to disagree on this . |
| 15 | Once you get started on this |
| 16 | The prison authorities see this flexibility as the principal benefit both for the deliverer and the candidate and they intend to build on this in future . |
| 17 | What made me finally decide to insist on this was when I realized that had you been a man , Miranda , or had I not been personally involved with you , I would n't have hesitated to ask for these shares . ’ |
| 18 | How … by balancing the boat with moving arms … and adding weights in the bottom … everyone is equal when they go sailing on this … |
| 19 | If parents choose to proceed on this basis , they should do so with the full understanding that they may be aborting a child capable of experiencing as full and satisfying a life as anyone else . |
| 20 | Idle strumming on this guitar is a delight — it feels really very good . |
| 21 | It becomes I I do touch on this at one point in my submission , it becomes even better if it has links . |
| 22 | If you visit the show next week and note down all the East Anglian exhibitors , it may surprise you what the nursery people from this area do to put on this wonderful show . |
| 23 | For example , in the sentence People have and still do disagree on this matter the form disagree can not follow both have and do . |
| 24 | The correct sentence would be People have disagreed and still do disagree on this matter . |
| 25 | If the Russians do arrive on this scale it will be the largest single wave of what Israelis call aliya ( literally ‘ ascent ’ ) since the immediate post independence years in the early 1950s , a heady return to the heart of the Zionist idea at a time when the country — still fighting the Palestinian uprising , on a permanent war footing and its economy slipping into recession — is far from ready . |
| 26 | Nor does it carry much information about the clouds to Earth because the clouds fail to impress on this radiation many meaningful signatures . |
| 27 | I 've gobbed on this one already now . |
| 28 | Well people who 've commented on this say that they 're now aware that they feel unable to say to women students things they would say to male students . |
| 29 | I regard cooking on this level as an accomplishment . ’ |
| 30 | About the only decent argument I 've heard on this , I have to say that because it was my daughter who advanced it , about the only decent argument I have heard is the one about badger baiting where she said to me but badger baiting is not allowed on your land and that is the point precisely that Mr made , it is not allowed because that is the law of the land and that is where decisions about the permission or otherwise of fox hunting should be made . |