Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To understand what the issue is really about , we must look more carefully at the premises they bring to bear on the discussion of reduction ; for this debate functions as a strait-jacket , stifling the very assumptions and aspirations which lie at the heart of the dispute . |
| 2 | House builders were this week accused of going back on their word by increasing the number of homes they intend to build on a Darlington estate . |
| 3 | They tend to rely on a rapid turnover of stock , to keep down inventory levels . |
| 4 | Local authority loans for house purchase are more likely to be made to manual groups and they tend to concentrate on the purchase of older dwellings . |
| 5 | Due to their crusading streak , newspapers have been valuable in discussing the achievements of the mentally handicapped , but again they tend to focus on the sensational . |
| 6 | More specifically , they arc focused on the home , with self-provisioning ( DIY , gardening and so forth ) representing a sphere of autonomy where they can literally ‘ be themselves ’ . |
| 7 | The Greenfield report recommends that prescription forms should contain a box , which doctors should tick if they want to insist on the branded drug , rather than an approved substitute . |
| 8 | When making maps you might start simply by asking the children to draw something on a sheet of paper that they want represented on the map — a house , a shop , the well , the woods … |
| 9 | So what we 're doing now is , and we 'll do again this year , when we publish the telephone directory again , is to send out to divisions any numbers that they want saved on the system . |
| 10 | Tory vice-chairman Andrew Mitchell has written to all candidates asking if they want to remain on the list and requesting a new CV . |
| 11 | well no , but not on , to town , but there might be somewhere they want to go on the way |
| 12 | They want to build on the land . ’ |
| 13 | Now they want to build on the site , but the local council say it should be restored as part of the countryside . |
| 14 | This course , which is the only one of its type in Northern Ireland , is designed to cater for students who wish to study accounting and other related subjects before deciding whether they want to embark on the study of professional accountancy , or who wish to acquire sufficient knowledge of accounting before taking up employment . |
| 15 | ‘ They knock on my door and say they want to pull on a black and white shirt , but when I ask them to prove it some ca n't , ’ said Keegan . |
| 16 | region in terms of the general business conditions , or the second most optimistic so it 's not entirely surprising that they now say that they expect to invest on the back of the strength of that optimism . |
| 17 | No , I never pick up the phone , they do that , pick up one phone and speak for a minute , while that ones ringing they say hold on a minute , and pick up the other one . |
| 18 | Work on the Museum now reports that the wing control surfaces have recently been reworked and they hope to have on the wings themselves restarted soon . |
| 19 | They seem to act on the host 's nervous system in rather the same way as an addictive drug . |
| 20 | And they seem to work on the principle of allowing each other to do anything they like . |
| 21 | For example , they seem to survive on a few hours ' sleep ; they will report waking and getting up early ( often to the annoyance of their families ) ; sporting activities include frenetic games ( squash ) and/or strenuous single person sports ( running , swimming ) . |
| 22 | They can only develop and become effective if they happen to land on a female cone . |
| 23 | They get rewarded on the basis of the Europa scale and classification and the fat finish of the animal whether beef or sheep . |
| 24 | ‘ They keep slipping on the mat . ’ |
| 25 | Paul read somewhere they keep going on a bequest from George Bernard Shaw . |
| 26 | But what they 've done is , they 've actually dis distorted the rules on P E Ps as time 's gone along and the Chancellor 's allowed them to do it , and the distortions are getting more and more elaborate , and er I think they keep knocking on the revenue door and saying er we , we 've designed this one , is this okay ? |
| 27 | The precise course of such relations and the detailed moral requirements they generate depend on the way individuals choose to develop them and the different normative implications with which they deliberately endow the relations . |
| 28 | ( However , they do appear on the half mill — why the difference , CAA ? ) |
| 29 | The roads are bumpy and uncertain and when they do get on a half decent stretch , they get pulled over by the police : they 're not supposed to be on it . |
| 30 | They start building on the twentieth of March . |