Example sentences of "they [vb base] [to-vb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want to place on record the generous support that they 've had from you and for the , yes in a moment , the seconder of the emergency motion for er moving her support . |
| 2 | The Serbian Government must recognise that they should extend to the Albanians exactly the rights and privileges that they seek to secure on behalf of the Serbs in , for example , Croatia . |
| 3 | Once hatched , they begin to feed on zooplankton and as they grow they prey on larger species and they are even cannibalistic . |
| 4 | They offer to come on board the party boat to help me find Tamsin , but I say no : they might scare her . |
| 5 | They must be kept scrupulously clean and as soon as they start to feed on flesh — at about three weeks — the nest can be removed and new straw added . |
| 6 | Now again I mentioned this last week , the idea of introducing schoolchildren at a very young age to different countries and different cultures so that in fact when they come to go on holiday on their own or with a partner it holds no fear for them unlike , if you like , senior citizens might do . |
| 7 | When confident awareness is not available to managers , they have to rely on intuition , judgement by analogy and the informed reports of other people . |
| 8 | Or , if they do not , they have to take on trust the material that the New Historicist scholar-critic hands them . |
| 9 | In that obviously they have to take on board the views of their constituent districts . |
| 10 | For they have just been faced with the prospect of losing £1 million of the money they have to spend on research this year . |
| 11 | All this side of the road is one officer 's area that they have to cover on foot . |