Example sentences of "we [vb base] on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We report on patients with chronic viral hepatitis who died of hepatic decompensation during or shortly after interferon alfa treatment . |
| 2 | When we focus on differences between Japan and the West it has been common to paint pictures based to a large extent on our general impression of how relations at work offer such sharply contrasting attitudes to work . |
| 3 | For instance , in teaching the communication module , we focus on communication with people with disabilities . |
| 4 | We depend on support from a wide range of sponsors in the commercial and private sector . |
| 5 | ‘ We depend on Unprofor for oil supplies to fuel the generators around the city , but they only give small amounts and are refusing to give us newsprint . ’ |
| 6 | ( Unhappily ) We act on scraps of information … sifting half-remembered directions that we can hardly separate from instinct . |
| 7 | We put on tastings for staff as well as customers . |
| 8 | We put on crampons for a steep section , Nathan all excitement at this new level of experience and commitment . |
| 9 | We travel on Sunday from Edinburgh and Glasgow to Kintyre , then by ferry to our base at Port Askaig . |
| 10 | We begin on Monday in Glasgow , then move on to Manchester , Birmingham , Southampton , Bristol and London . |
| 11 | Bruce added : ‘ Our major task was the retubing of both Thomas Bach and Una which we maintain on behalf of the museum . |
| 12 | In Edinburgh , our courses concentrate on human and mammalian physiology though we draw on examples from other animals to illustrate physiological principles . |
| 13 | ‘ It is all part of the countdown process until we get on air in January . ’ |
| 14 | By the time we arrive on tip-toe to the spot , whatever it was has either gone or revealed itself to be a log . |
| 15 | ‘ We rely on help from the public — and in this case it was essential . |
| 16 | We need the winds everywhere and we rely on people in Florida state to take these very sparse observations and turn them into a map which covers the whole surface of the tropical Pacific . |
| 17 | We go on holiday to Cornwall , John and I and my family . |
| 18 | And , say Armitages Pet Products , we 're also buying them presents if we go on holiday without them . |
| 19 | It can not be otherwise with the approach of death ; whether we go on pilgrimage with Raleigh or put out to sea with Tennyson , the metaphor of travel is one with which the poets have made us familiar . |
| 20 | It may be that the Committee is unaware of the amount of work we do on behalf of cycling in Scotland . |
| 21 | ‘ We call on members of parliament to throw out those parts of the Agriculture Bill which will spell the end of the potato scheme . |
| 22 | It is simply because we are fitter and tougher , harder and stronger , that we come on top on so many occasions . |
| 23 | But when it comes to saying , ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Sun the evaporation/solar-flares analogy is being advanced , not in order to justify an answer to a question of fact that arises within the language-game , but in order to justify an extension of the language-game we have on Earth to the Sun . |
| 24 | We can not merely stipulate that there be no luck involved , because we all of us rely on luck to some extent . |