Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] on [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Physical forces appear to act on bodies in a smooth way , but below the molecular level , the actions are clearly quantised . |
| 2 | Secondly , instruments tend to dwell on deficits in performance rather than levels of higher competence . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some species manage to live on land in humid tropical forests , undulating on mucus that they secrete from their undersides . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Your appraisal will include an overall performance mark , which we use to decide on increases in your pay for the following year . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Important decisions are made by key people , and other employees tend to rely on precedent in the absence of other guidelines as to what to do . |
| 9 | As with the Cel Editor , you may import a number of different image file types to form your background , and may , indeed , find that you prefer to work on backgrounds in another package altogether , and bring them into the Background Editor only to convert them to the Device Independent Bitmap ( DIB ) format that is native to the package . |
| 10 | Gypsies who 've camped on land in Hereford for generations years with the farmer 's permission . |
| 11 | When the ship goes down , the actors all have to come on stage in wet clothes . |
| 12 | Few of the youngsters will have been to a big match ; what they are emulating is what they have seen on television in shop windows and heard on their transistors . |
| 13 | Others have embarked on careers in teaching ( at all levels ) , and a good few now work in journalism and the mass media . |
| 14 | On Saturday morning we will have a look at all the changes that have occurred on campus in recent years . |
| 15 | In this chapter so far we have focused on specificities in your argument — the presuppositions in your sentences , the specific things you can say about particular texts , the setting of something in its context , and so on . |
| 16 | So far , about 40,000 workers have gone on strike in roughly 80 steel and engineering companies , most of them owned by western German firms or the Treuhand , the agency privatising east German industry . |
| 17 | Three people have gone on trial in connection with the discovery of a multi-million pound drugs factory . |
| 18 | WITHOUT wishing to cash in on the latest Royal marital rift it seems right to impart the information that some cartoons depicting the unfortunate pair have gone on sale in their adoptive city . |
| 19 | Now the situation is changing and for the first time two excellent books have appeared on pain in children . |
| 20 | I am pleased to report that we have achieved on increase in profit in the year . |
| 21 | During the past 60 years , I have lived on islands in the Hebrides where Gaelic was the normal means of communication in church services and in daily life . |