Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] on the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first sight the five all appear to live on the same species of grass , herbs , and small bushes . |
| 2 | Three- and four-year-olds appear to act on the same assumption . |
| 3 | Other diarrhoea-causing bacteria seem to operate on the same principle as cholera enterotoxin ie. by blocking sodium and chloride ion reabsorption and causing chloride ion secretion into the gut lumen . |
| 4 | In order to understand the press reporting of rape trials we need to concentrate on the few cases which got enormous publicity in 1985 . |
| 5 | And then there 're the classic multi-user applications , like sales order processing , where different users have to work on the same file at the same time . |