Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the basic [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That year the great Earl of Chatham , formerly the elder Pitt , laid down the basic principles of British naval policy :
2 In 1986 the Court of Appeal laid down the basic rules on competition by ex-employees in Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler 1986 IRLR 69 .
3 In September 1948 , a committee , chosen by the assembly , drew up the Basic Law which laid the foundation of a constitution , the main legislative body ( Bundestag ) with nearly five hundred members elected every four years , and an upper house ( Bundesrat ) of forty-five members composed of representatives of the state government .
4 to develop a microcomputer-based information retrieval system for use in secondary schools that will demonstrate realistically the basic principles of information storage and retrieval and at the same time serve as a practical system which can be used in the classroom to locate teaching and research materials ;
5 The woman is looking me straight in the eyes , Alida thought , she does not know even the basic elements of courtesy , she has paid no attention at all to the very relevant account of my condition .
6 Parents find it extremely difficult to provide even the basic necessities for life today , and certainly when you begin to think of the sort of things that most children in this country have on a day-to-day basis — an ice cream , a trip to the swimming baths and so on — these families do n't er it 's a major crisis to provide for example sixty pence as entry to a swimming pool .
7 Jill left for her coffee break , and Juliet filled in the basic charts .
8 The Composers Pen instrument screen enables the user to set up the basic layout of the score .
9 Oh , it says here the basic necessities the things you buy have er have actually gone up , or they 've hardly moved at all .
10 He describes how the basic system has been tested and extended throughout the Authority , location by location and application by application .
11 The sentence belongs to writing , forming there the basic unit of textual structures .
12 As we shall see later the basic premise underlying an inspection will vary with the circumstances of the inspectors .
13 Each club of growers , be they of lettuce , tomato , carrots or some other crop , meets with the project manager to discuss how the basic ICMS methods can be applied to their particular crop .
14 Describe briefly the basic function of the reception office , enumerating the services it provides .
15 The first stage in building any spreadsheet is deciding where the basic data will be stored .
16 However I had to learn to delegate responsibility and realize that in climbing the executive ladder one had to give up the basic satisfaction of creative production .
17 Fiction reflects the changes in the concept of honour , personal or institutional , sorting out the basic scruples of conscience and the natural feelings of compassion and devotion which must be newly defined for each and every period in time .
18 In Chapter 15 we set out the basic case for allowing free markets to allocate resources .
19 Credit finance legislation is very detailed and complicated , and many lawyers are not competent to point out the basic pitfalls to unsuspecting clients .
20 You can be perfectly well with HIV and at other times chronic debility makes it hard to do even the basic things .
21 You can be perfectly well with HIV and at other times chronic debility makes it hard to do even the basic things .
22 He was slow to use even the basic idea of evolution in his paleontological work , and did so only in the mid 1860s after reading the work of the German evolutionist Ernst Haeckel .
23 Once the tune comes fairly accurately , the teacher can concentrate on meaning , bringing out the basic elements of the situation .
24 Pour over the basic stock , dot with butter , and bake , covered with foil , for about 30 minutes at 200°C/ 400°F/Gas 6 .
25 But positivism and utilitarianism , being nominalist and individualist in character , did not attempt to address directly the basic question of how order in society is achieved and maintained .
26 Er the point I was making to her was erm in her paper which er was excellent by the way , I forgot to say and I think you put it all very clearly and very nicely , y you , you very nicely set out the basic idea that the consequence and that in principle a male need contribute nothing more than his penis .
27 Er , I understand there was problem because of the computer breakdown which caused a certain record to be lost but then I discover that there is no copy of man manual copy of orders sent to the contractors for repairs kept so that having lost the computer record the council do not know what lights have been reported to contractor for repair and then find out the basic clients
28 Section 24 lays down the basic default rules as to the interests and duties of partners subject to their special agreements : The interests of partners in the partnership property and their rights and duties in relation to the partnership shall be determined , subject to any agreement express or implied between the partners , by the following rules : ( 1 ) All the partners are entitled to share equally in the capital and profits of the business , and must contribute equally towards the losses whether of capital or otherwise sustained by the firm .
29 Society lays down the basic rules of the marriage contract .
30 Figure 5.7 presents just the basic grid .
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