Example sentences of "[vb base] on [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the end he settled for a rather Egyptian standing pose with both their faces front on and the bodies half turned away . |
| 2 | The troops crack on as the storm sets in over So Kon Po . |
| 3 | Customers in the tea room of the Walker Art Gallery look on as the statue Death of Virginia is cleaned by experts Arlinda Ribeiro , left , and Polina Agapaki , of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside Picture : RICHARD WILLIAMS |
| 4 | Military pressure on Mr Gorbachev to find a quick way of ending the war stems from a bigger worry : that , by letting America take over conduct of the war , the Soviet Union will see its influence suffer in the region , especially if American troops stay on once the fighting is over . |
| 5 | We do acknowledge that the fatalities by the end of er by the end of December last year fatalities had increased in the county but that does , but that 's not really the figure that goes , go on because the numbers involved are actually quite small . |
| 6 | Geophysics , an active and rapidly advancing subject , is the study of the physical structure of the Earth , with a strong appeal to all who are curious about the Earth we live on and the Moon and the planets we see around us . |
| 7 | There is a perilous gap between the table I write on and the word ‘ table ’ . |
| 8 | The flowers come on before the leaves come on . |