Example sentences of "people [vb base] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman , the last speech was really explaining what I want to get over the fact that so many people want to talk on the issue and to complicate the issue . |
| 2 | You would n't let me turn the telly on which is what most people want to do on a Saturday evening , off |
| 3 | However , although people seem to agree on a hierarchy of symbolic rewards , this apparent consensus is not the sum of people 's personal evaluations regarding the relative importance of different jobs , but a reproduction of what they have been socialised into accepting and which , when asked , they reproduce as though this sort of thing is a matter of fact . |
| 4 | Once people get hooked on a show you have them . ’ |
| 5 | People , why do people , why do people move to work on the Docklands ? |
| 6 | What is more , because the earnings they thereby achieve can be higher than those of regular employees , some people choose to work on a temporary rather than a permanent basis . |
| 7 | ‘ Otherwise the same two people have to sleep on the floor all week . |
| 8 | Can I echo the comments that people have made on the value of rural schools to villages . |
| 9 | These people have hit on a formula which seems to work . |
| 10 | Erm historically we 've paid , most people have paid on the basis of of rateable value . |
| 11 | Five people have died on the test . |
| 12 | Twenty people have died on the treacherous glacier which we have to scramble up and down transporting supplies from the base camp to higher camps on the path to the summit . |
| 13 | People have encroached on the habitat , they have removed the predators or they have introduced the herbivores in the first place . |