Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] on [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 Gypsies who 've camped on land in Hereford for generations years with the farmer 's permission .
2 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 .
3 Others have embarked on careers in teaching ( at all levels ) , and a good few now work in journalism and the mass media .
4 On Saturday morning we will have a look at all the changes that have occurred on campus in recent years .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Three people have gone on trial in connection with the discovery of a multi-million pound drugs factory .
8 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 .
9 Now the situation is changing and for the first time two excellent books have appeared on pain in children .
10 I am pleased to report that we have achieved on increase in profit in the year .
11 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 .
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