Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun] 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 | Most descriptive studies in Britain base their classifications on the Registrar-General 's ranking of occupations from I to V , according to their supposed prestige , with a major division between middle-class or white-collar workers ( I , II , and III non-manual ) and working-class or manual workers ( III manual , IV and V ) . |
| 6 | Typically organisations require employees to obtain two or three estimates and base their payment on the lowest one . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The participants place their fingers on the top of an upturned glass or pointer on castors . |
| 11 | To get the distances correct , have them place their hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | To add to the general gothic touch , the now released pigeons fly around depositing their droppings on the dead body . |
| 14 | Amid signs of increasing desperation , Bush appeared to adopt a two-pronged strategy , using his powers as President to take actions calculated to improve his popularity , while his campaign staff increased the negative content of the campaign by intensifying their attacks on the character of Clinton , particularly in regard to his attempts as a student to avoid being drafted to Vietnam . |
| 15 | Even the Nato arms controllers meeting in Vienna , whose job it is to negotiate East-West reductions in conventional armed forces , can only pursue their objectives on the basis of confrontation between their alliance and the Warsaw Pact . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Today you have watched our mandarins banging their foreheads on the flagstones — but not for our emperor ! |
| 18 | In the Wimpy after 2001 we imitated the apes banging their bones on the ground with our knives and forks on the formica table . |
| 19 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 20 | Both the DoI and the 600 Group were keeping their information on the effects of robots on employment to themselves . |
| 21 | Never has their attack on the Labour Party been so comprehensive . |
| 22 | Always make sure that the person on the tail is briefed to hold it up until someone has their weight on the nose . |
| 23 | As a result , the majority of farmers continued to concentrate their efforts on the production of food for their own families , rather than for the market . |
| 24 | The development tools allow programmers to concentrate their efforts on the finer points of the program without having to worry about compatibility problems . |
| 25 | Although it was not easy in the beginning attracting regular work , the players all had sufficient confidence in the quality of the product , that they decided to concentrate their energies on the ensemble , rather than seek the immediate security of orchestral contracts . |
| 26 | To make them pure for drinking purposes is , perhaps , impossible ; but it may reasonably be hoped that they may become sufficiently so to delight the eye and to repress the pestiferous and sickening exhalations which at present affect the multitudes of our population compelled to pass their lives on the bank of such rivers . |
| 27 | And that is excellent news for Reds manager Frankie Parks who is increasingly worried he wo n't have men fit enough to write their names on the team sheet . |
| 28 | Yeah you only need to write their details on the first page in which they appear . |
| 29 | This second volume of drawings vindicates their reliance on the individuals to whom they have entrusted the expansion of this area of their collections . |
| 30 | Sideshows did a roaring trade with queues waiting to try their luck on the rifle range , hoop-la , hubbly bubbly or coconut shies . |