Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , like me , you tend to sit on mountains of paper , and rely on your memory to root out a reference , then you will need to be strong and discipline yourself to filing items away as soon as you have finished with them , either in folders or binders or in cabinet or box file , depending on the amount of space you have available . |
| 2 | I intend to concentrate on provision for the 18 per cent unstatemented pupils who remain in mainstream schools but who , as Warnock reminded us , have special needs . |
| 3 | I shall say more of this a little later on , but for now I want to concentrate on aspects of privatisation . |
| 4 | Keep your paper tidy ( for example , by deleting all notes at the end ) , but do n't use correcting fluid to remove errors ( it is a sure way of telling your examiner that you want to focus on appearance at the expense of content ) . |
| 5 | Physical forces appear to act on bodies in a smooth way , but below the molecular level , the actions are clearly quantised . |
| 6 | Secondly , instruments tend to dwell on deficits in performance rather than levels of higher competence . |
| 7 | The Serbian Government must recognise that they should extend to the Albanians exactly the rights and privileges that they seek to secure on behalf of the Serbs in , for example , Croatia . |
| 8 | Fidelity ( 0800 414161 ) has produced guides explaining the tax savings to be made by using a roll-up fund ; the opportunities cover investing on behalf of a child , supplementing your income , retiring or working abroad , approaching retirement , investments made by a non-working spouse and investing on behalf of your company . |
| 9 | When I leave at the end of the year , I plan to continue in pastoral work but hope to return on occasions to be with the Middlesbrough Diocesan Family . |
| 10 | Psychologists tend to focus on behaviour as the expression of certain psychological propensities while sociologists tend to see human behaviour as shaped in its course by the social context of human life . |
| 11 | Dolphins were often cruelly maimed or killed during such research , but , thankfully , today 's studies tend to focus on animals in the wild , and mostly aim to be as non-intrusive as possible . |
| 12 | If the description seems an overly gloomy one , it is perhaps because teachers themselves often tend to focus on aspects of the job that they would wish to minimize or remove . |
| 13 | ‘ Our best developed areas are those which deal with the elaboration of motor skills made possible by our hands , while cetaceans seem to concentrate on areas of social perception . |
| 14 | Bakery workers begin voting on series of one-day strikes . |
| 15 | Some species manage to live on land in humid tropical forests , undulating on mucus that they secrete from their undersides . |
| 16 | Like to come on board with me ? ’ |
| 17 | I remember going on tour with an all-male cast and every time we got to any town we used to run and get the paper to see if some show with a chorus was on , because we knew all the guys were gay and all the girls were free . |
| 18 | Although David Thorpe was in essence a still-life photographer , I remember going on location in Germany to do a car campaign , and we also used to do many portraits — there was a tremendous variety in what we were doing . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Well , they like going on junkets to exotic places . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And visit to check on progress from time to time ? |
| 21 | Counsel appearing on behalf of the appellants today does not accept the reason for those delays , but , as that is not central to the issue before this court , I say no more about it . |
| 22 | Apparently Ziegfeld spied on rehearsals by watching through a peephole in the wall . |
| 23 | KART racing on Sundays at a Cleveland site was given a reprieve yesterday despite complaints about noise from local residents . |
| 24 | Your appraisal will include an overall performance mark , which we use to decide on increases in your pay for the following year . |
| 25 | The success of the Day-to-Day programme lies in the fact that we try to stay on top of the news . ’ |
| 26 | Keep left on path along wall on reaching River Wharfe. 9 Follow riverside path . |
| 27 | As well as an index of data , BGS holds many sample analyses on computer under the Oracle database-management system . |
| 28 | During the weekend , go shopping on Saturday after breakfast . |
| 29 | For the minor channels , and here we may include BBC2 and Channel Four , and may in the future add local cable stations , considerable opportunities exist to report on developments in the field of mental handicap . |
| 30 | Where data do exist on support between kin across households , this tends in effect to be limited to documenting the networks through which support flowed and the kind of support which was given , and can give very little direct evidence about the underlying structure of social relations which supported these exchanges . |