Example sentences of "[vb base] on [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where , for example , children are considered at risk of physical harm it is important that medical authorities pass on relevant information about non-accidental injuries and teachers report cases of obvious neglect , or comprehensive risk registers are compiled . |
| 2 | Merck has concluded a similar arrangement with the New York Botanical Gardens : botanists there pass on potentially-useful plants to Merck , which has agreed to give royalties to the country of origin should a marketable drug result . |
| 3 | The situation is analogous to the way in which the genes with their shape-specificity pass on inherited characteristics from one generation to the next . |
| 4 | If it is dark , switch on subdued lighting in each room , and your red-glow fire in the sitting room if you do n't have a ‘ real ’ fire . |
| 5 | At the meeting-place of roads on the Plateau d'Iraty there are four things you can do : go unadventurously back the way you came , to Esterençuby ; carry on due east over the Col Bagargui along a tolerable but not always reassuring road into Larrau and the valley of Mauléon ; turn sharp left along a somewhat hazardous stretch of track rather than road towards the village of Men dive ( I funk Ed this route myself , after a short trial run , but bad roads do get mended or improved in the Pyrenees , so one year 's experience may be different from the next ) ; or turn to the right along the very scenic road into the Forêt d'Iraty itself . |
| 6 | Our more natural inclination was to hide in the dim recesses of the games shed and carry on enthralling discussions about boyfriends and the origins of the universe . |
| 7 | Or again as Jevons says ‘ Originally a market was a public place in a town where provisions and other objects were exposed for sale ; but the word has been generalized , so as to mean any body of persons who are in intimate business relations and carry on extensive transactions in any commodity . |
| 8 | , … or to strike south to the Waste , recapture the girl — remember , they may know nothing about her — and then ride back either by the track on the other side of the Swamp or carry on direct south towards Leicester . |
| 9 | Although the LEA remains the employer of the staff in the school , the governors take on extensive powers over staffing and responsibilities under employment law . |
| 10 | Yet , at the same time , there has not , in most cases , been a sharp break between one way of life and another but rather a process involving subtle shifts in emphasis , whereby one set of relationships — kin , friends and neighbours — take on new significances in place of or in addition to older or earlier established relationships . |
| 11 | We aim to continue and develop this approach as we take on new responsibilities for arranging residential and nursing home care . |
| 12 | An examination of the historical pattern of change serves four main purposes ; purposes which take on great significance in the context of contemporary debates concerning the proper representation of all political opinion and the nature of bias in the press . |
| 13 | Though I have never heard of any one collaboration between restaurateur and artist proving more lucrative than the next , there does not seem to be any shortage of artists who will in effect take on certain risks in order to get their work out on the town . |
| 14 | Lawyers already informally take on certain winners on this basis , and the reward proposed — a small uplift on normal fees — will not induce them to accept chancy cases . |
| 15 | I also referred to the child 's role as a productive member of the family ; children often take on real responsibility at an early age . |
| 16 | Undercapitalisation entails risks when such firms carry out eurobond " bought deals " or take on large positions in secondary market trading . |
| 17 | People keep meeting each other as they take on different roles in relationship to each other . |
| 18 | Rovers take on lowly Southend at Prenton Park ( 7.30pm ) , and King explained : ‘ Southend are a physical side full of six-footers and we have to get behind them . |