Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Inspectorate maintained their attack on the ‘ unacceptable variety ’ of curricular provision in their Aspects of Secondary Education ( 1979 ) and again in A View of the Curriculum ( 1980 ) . |
| 2 | They base their prognosis on the aggressive new product development and marketing that has been Cadbury 's hallmark in recent years . |
| 3 | Edwards and Rackages base their approach on the highly questionable premise that spectator violence is merely a playing out of tensions external to sport itself . |
| 4 | Tel ; ( 070 ) 510294 ) , base their operation on the Challenger I , a sleek , spacious 34m boat . |
| 5 | Typically organisations require employees to obtain two or three estimates and base their payment on the lowest one . |
| 6 | First , I accept that the inspectors ' production of an annual report and other reports on our schools is extremely valuable , as they base their advice on the inspections that they carry out . |
| 7 | Their choices follow : Lunn Poly 's marketing director Peter Rothwell observed that as a rule the staff in their 505 shops base their selling on the answers given by the customer in a questionnaire , to prevent mismatches between customers and the holidays they took , but he nevertheless felt safe in saying that two young couples , a bit adventurous , would do well if they invested in an ILG Drive Europe holiday along the west coast of France to Biarritz , good countryside and a nice old town , accommodation at the Mer et Golf apartments , two weeks in all with ferry and accommodation included for £255 each . |
| 8 | IRELAND 'S comprehensive 17–3 demolition of England at Lansdowne Road yesterday will boost their representation on the Lions party to New Zealand later in the year . |
| 9 | In September 1915 , the UDC refused to accept their affiliation on the grounds that the UDC had less to gain from any activity the Fellowship might undertake on its behalf than it had to lose from being associated with the doctrine of non-resistance . |
| 10 | He still defends their use on the grounds that ‘ For selfish reasons a prison administrator needs to know as much as he can about each prisoner , especially incoming prisoners . ’ |
| 11 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 12 | Both the DoI and the 600 Group were keeping their information on the effects of robots on employment to themselves . |
| 13 | Never has their attack on the Labour Party been so comprehensive . |
| 14 | Always make sure that the person on the tail is briefed to hold it up until someone has their weight on the nose . |
| 15 | This second volume of drawings vindicates their reliance on the individuals to whom they have entrusted the expansion of this area of their collections . |
| 16 | Sideshows did a roaring trade with queues waiting to try their luck on the rifle range , hoop-la , hubbly bubbly or coconut shies . |
| 17 | As an American commentator put it , ‘ a duchess abdicates when her son comes to his title ; she is turned out of the mansion where she once presided … ’ especially through this single-minded concentration of resources through inheritance on a principal heir that the English aristocracy were able to tighten their grip on the land . |
| 18 | Pensioners ' leaders , however , demanded a minimum monthly pension of between US$250 and $300 , basing their case on the level of current wage settlements . |
| 19 | That should concentrate their mind on the need to give any affected party the opportunity to make submission on any such departure and also to facilitate the communication of the nature of the departure to the affected party . |
| 20 | ‘ Either at the request of some lady because it disturbed their bouncing on the royal bed . |
| 21 | It was in the thirties , with the expansion of the commercial library ( Boots lending library , for example ) that Mills and Boon concentrated their attention on the production of romance fiction , published in cheap brown bindings . |
| 22 | Oil consumers , whether directly or indirectly concerned , concentrated their attention on the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf , through which flowed some 20 per cent of the oil supplies of the world outside the CPEs and which shifted into sharp focus as the war intensified . |
| 23 | Usually they concentrated their attention on the roof . |
| 24 | Realizing there was nowhere to run in time , the Marines concentrated their fire on the crouching figures behind the guns , but they were too well protected . |
| 25 | However , several respondents mentioned their dependence on the ritual aspect of their heroin use . |
| 26 | This is an exercise in persuasion , and requires composers who will focus their art on the simple and fundamental act of communication with their enthusiastic but tired , inattentive , restless , distracted and easily bored fellow human beings who none the less long to hear themselves in a not necessarily flattering mirror of music . |
| 27 | activities are signposted , and every new stage of a lesson is indicated so that learners can focus their attention on the task in hand |
| 28 | Suragai and Kadan were walking their st'lyan on the grass where the stream curved away out of sight , each of them with one of the twins in the saddle . |
| 29 | The hunger strike was interpreted in some quarters as an attempt by the RAF prisoners to increase their influence on the command structure outside prison . |
| 30 | They attempt to impose their will on the firm(s) involved , that influence extending perhaps to deciding on which may be involved . |