Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb base] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple were chauffeured from their homes to the town hall where they put on the replica mayoral chains made specially for the occasion . |
| 2 | I therefore challenge candidates of all parties to state clearly and publicly where they stand on the chronic and continuous underfunding of a service which is increasingly being asked to undertake more and more duties . |
| 3 | Says , Jay Odell , of the fisheries department : ‘ Normally about 21,000 grey whales migrate from Baja California to their summer feeding grounds in the north Bering Sea , where they forage on the sea bottom , usually in much deeper water , for small crustaceans . ’ |
| 4 | The creatures of the open sea , then , live either in the plankton ; or live in the waters beneath and browse upon the plankton — or live upon the browsers ; or they live on the bottom , and wait for the planktonic manna to rain upon them from above ; or they feed on the creatures that feed upon the bottom . |
| 5 | The creatures of the open sea , then , live either in the plankton ; or live in the waters beneath and browse upon the plankton — or live upon the browsers ; or they live on the bottom , and wait for the planktonic manna to rain upon them from above ; or they feed on the creatures that feed upon the bottom . |
| 6 | But although they live on the edge of Wentworth Golf Course , Lady Haslam prefers gardening when at home . |
| 7 | The findings are actually somewhat more encouraging from the Tories ' point of view than they appear on the surface . |
| 8 | This county council has funded them more than social services erm , for , I do n't have the figures in front of me today , but for a long time , erm , this is unlike the overwhelming majority of county councils , who spend more on social services than they do on the police . |
| 9 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to Mr. Martyn Rands , chairman of Basildon commuters ' club — and to his hard-working committee — who met my hon. Friend this morning and presented him with a petition , signed by 5,000 people in my constituency , complaining about the disgraceful service that they receive on the Fenchurch Street line ? |
| 10 | Hankies , me mam was on about the bogeys that they pull on the , back behind their bikes |
| 11 | It is helpful for them to recognize that if they intend to carry through what they say , they may need to reduce the number of demands that they make on the child . |
| 12 | Having in mind my own South Thames TEC in south London , does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the acceptance , success and street credibility of the TECs have been greatly enhanced by the emphasis that they put on the enterprise element of their make-up ? |
| 13 | His tale was verified by another member of the party Hawick 's B international hooker Jim Hay , who recounted that his fellow Teri , Jim Renwick , had been so intent on chasing and tackling the electrifyingly quick Eric Rush that he had failed to notice a helicopter land on the pitch and it was only when they felt the down-draft from the rotor blades that they put on the anchors . |
| 14 | What can be said about the most recent generation of US television narrative subgenres is that they display on the screen a much higher awareness of the conventions they are operating than is the general rule on UK television , and they are therefore much more inclined towards an ironic or parodic re-scoring of generic regimes . |
| 15 | To that extent they ought to have wide circulation , except that they depend on the kind of painstaking preparation that Knussen had given them — the music sounded taught and nurtured rather than merely rehearsed . |
| 16 | Managers in the companies we studied recognize that they depend on the inputs of those who know . |
| 17 | However , does the Minister realise that the schemes place a great burden on individual residents in a particular area and that they depend on the co-operation of the police ? |
| 18 | The the the in order to get by pupils writing these er rather immature things that they write on the |
| 19 | Right , here 's one where they give you a little bit of the table This this is a That 's a fairly complicated sort of thing that they give on the table , erm give you the valencies and the |
| 20 | MOST people associate pet food with the canned meat products that they see on the TV and in local supermarkets . |
| 21 | But I think most people would recognize the very considerable professionalism that they acquire on the job . |
| 22 | The corporation was sustaining appalling production losses and Finniston wrote to each of the trade unions suggesting that they meet on the neutral territory of a Heathrow hotel . |
| 23 | The two men picked their way along the line with the aid of a torch , but before they reached the bridge the Sergeant switched it off suggesting that they tread on the wooden sleepers and as softly as possible . |
| 24 | They do not have the wherewithal to carry out the administration and paperwork or to watch over them and ensure that they learn on the job and produce an effective piece of craftsmanship . |
| 25 | These are defences in the strict sense that they place on the defendant a burden of proving his innocence , on the balance of probabilities . |
| 26 | He becomes an entertainer , a manipulator whose victories we watch as if hypnotized , seeing both the tricks and the mesmeric effect that they have on the innocent . |
| 27 | Sorry , the only one I eh , I eh got this idea was when I first took this up I went into the hut in the town , and I picked up the booklets , you know that they have on the counter , and in one of these booklets it had that the vet 's were now I do n't know what I 'm , I 'm very lost for everything like this , but they 've kept and therefore if your animal needed , your pet needed treatment it would be done by the private vet 's and eh , mon the money would be re would be reclaimed by the vet from the R S P C A , and I think that gave to erm . |
| 28 | An abstract data type ( ADT ) is a set of operations , operating on a collection of stored data , defined so that they are rigorous enough to specify completely the effect that they have on the data , but abstract because it must not specify how the data is stored nor how the operations are carried out . |
| 29 | Pigs which are kept in a fairly barren environment , except for the presence of other pigs , want to chew things , they want to root , but there is nothing to chew on or root so they chew on the tails of other pigs . |
| 30 | The idea is to shoot the balloons across so they burst on the stalactites and drop their water into the bowl below . |