Example sentences of "and [vb base] it [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The opportunity , rather , is this : apart from lean production and quality control , one of the big domestic advantages of the best Japanese manufacturers has been the way they garner information within their own firm and use it to take decisions . |
2 | Occasionally it would extend one of its sensors and use it to draw shapes in the dirt . |
3 | A country that has a balance of payments surplus may receive payment from the debtor 's foreign exchange reserves , receive the balance in gold , leave the money in the debtor country and use it to purchase goods and services in the future , or lend the debtor country the money to pay off the debt and receive interest on the loan in the meantime . |
4 | This being so , it is surely better to acknowledge the power of behaviour and use it to improve relationships and enhance communication between people . |
5 | ‘ We had to keep our hands on the reins at that point in the race though we were still allowed to carry the whip and use it to prevent horses running out , refusing , or causing accidents . |
6 | During 1991 , in consultation with Pat Twite , the decision was taken to change the direction of the award and use it to encourage museums and other organisations to strive for improvements in their respective fields and to align the award with the good works of the BAPC . |
7 | Once you 've built a fully computerized factory , you can take out the lights , shut the door and leave it to make engines or vacuum cleaners or whatever , all on its own in the dark . |
8 | Sometimes the Constitution limits the executive or subordinate local bodies ; sometimes it limits the legislature also , but only so far as amendment of the Constitution itself is concerned ; and sometimes it imposes restrictions upon the legislature which go far beyond this point and forbid it to make laws upon certain subjects or in a certain way or with certain effects . |