Example sentences of "[vb base] on [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you embark on using someone as your detective who is immensely superior to yourself either intellectually or in the social scale ( and by that I do not mean any conventional listing of dukes , earls , barons and honourables ) you will be heading for trouble when you try to have the sort of insights for them that they would naturally have . |
| 2 | We take any four boys , and we concentrate on providing them with first-class , intensive training , and my contention is that we can produce a team in every way as competitive as Greycoats ' . ’ |
| 3 | Thus most ethologists take the existence of various interpretative and representational capacities for granted , and concentrate on asking which of these capacities are shared by which species . |
| 4 | You know nothing about me , and yet you insist on crediting me with a lifestyle more likely your own ! ’ |
| 5 | Yet you insist on placing them with men who have already been convicted of far worse crimes . ’ |
| 6 | If your next-door neighbours insist on blasting you at all hours with Wagner 's Gottedammerung " , be thankful : it might have been Heavy Metal . |
| 7 | Structural faults sent budgeted costs soaring , work on transforming it into a leisure empire stopped and its £100m debts were taken over by the Hong Kong brothers in February . |
| 8 | The main fault I can find with the vehicle is the cab noise at speeds over 40 mph , ( it will only do 60mph ) I know the Land Rover was never meant for motorways but we plan on taking it on our holiday , is it normal for gearboxes to sound like they are going to fly out of the window or do I have a fault ? |