Example sentences of "they [vb base] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their soul driven dance mix has packed out venues everywhere and got them airplay on top dance station Kiss FM . |
| 2 | These examinations are probably a poor instrument for measuring the quality of medical education because they concentrate on factual retention . |
| 3 | There they sit on reserved seats in the Commons , Her Majesty 's Loyal Opposition , only metres away from their government counterparts , knowing they could do so much better . |
| 4 | In the legal context , we need to feel that the prohibitions of laws , in the way they are defined and in the way they are applied , are justifiable and influence us all equally ( or , again , if they do not , that they discriminate on acceptable grounds ) . |
| 5 | The authors were asked to review the current state of the art in their fields with particular reference to the likely requirements of the future policy issues agenda in terms of the demands that they make on geographic information management . |
| 6 | There are important differences between the chapters in this part both in the nature of the demands that they make on geographic information and also in the relative importance that is attached to geographic criteria as against other issues by planners and decision-makers in these fields . |
| 7 | If we allow for the expectations of individuals and the values ( valency ) they place on certain outcomes or rewards , then we can propose that the degree to which they will release energy in the pursuit of their goals is a function of their expectations about likely outcomes and the importance they place on those outcomes or rewards : |
| 8 | During periods of uncertainty ( for example , after a shock rise in oil prices ) it has been argued that firms will reduce the value they place on expected future returns on investment projects . |
| 9 | They build on young people 's skills and confidence so they feel that they have something to offer to the world and to their own community . |
| 10 | They squat on ragged patches of grass like abandoned containers , painted bright colours , stuffed with more than anyone could want of Do-It-Yourself Equipment , Garden Furniture or , in one case , pure Leather . |
| 11 | They focus on general directives and priorities , set targets and leave detailed planning and administration to subordinates . |
| 12 | Others have argued that the axes are misleading because they focus on absolute profitability rather than that earnable on marginal investment . |
| 13 | Historians study social change and they focus on particular events for their data . |
| 14 | Like the views of their predecessors in classical Marxist thought , modern functionalist views do not regard it as useful or necessary to demonstrate the precise mechanisms by which state policy responds to structural imperatives ; instead they focus on macro-social issues and trends . |
| 15 | They focus on social strata rather than social inequality in general . |
| 16 | They depend on annual profits — less 25 per cent voluntary tax — from the Duchy 's 130,000 acres of farmland , which came to £2,176,798 last year . |
| 17 | They depend on skilled workers , modern machinery and electric power , rather than on being near to raw materials , coal mines or markets . |
| 18 | The reasons for these biases are many and varied , including the profitability of certain preparations ( zero for traditional methods , minimal for reusable contraceptives like the diaphragm ) , the extent to which they depend on continuing ‘ motivation ’ of the user ( high for traditional and barrier methods and the pill ) , and of course the efficiency of the method itself . |
| 19 | The public , as clients , equally base their attitudes to the quality of the services they receive on subjective assessments that are more than a little conditioned by their individual social attitudes . |
| 20 | R and L also commute on the cube because they act on different pieces , but F and R do not commute , so the commutator [ F , R ] creates a terrible mess ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 21 | Similarly , does size have a greater effect on reproductive success in female Weddell seals compared to land or pack-ice breeding species because they breed on fast ice and defend access to water holes ? |
| 22 | But erm they put on certain warm clothes on . |
| 23 | They put on new acts if they are called direct and are sent a rough demo tape . |
| 24 | They put on separate roadshows as they appeared at the same event for the first time since Mr Major 's statement in the House of Commons . |
| 25 | She noticed that everyone was slightly embarrassed by her ; she reminded them too much of the death around them , and they put on brutish cheerful voices with her . |
| 26 | In 1982 BBC1 's ‘ Nationwide ’ covered Gay News ' tenth birthday , but in general the sharp end of factual programming has only given space to gay issues when they impinge on heterosexual concerns . |
| 27 | In assessing the relative efficiency of alternative forms of hierarchy , the extent to which they economize on bounded rationality and control opportunism is of some importance . |
| 28 | Pop videos themselves are consistently reactionary in their sexual imagery ( and this is an aspect of the cooption of new pop to which I will return ) if only because they draw on visual conventions of masculinity and femininity ( taken from cinema history and television commercials ) that are much more coherent than pop 's adolescent ambiguities . |
| 29 | Piven and Cloward are primarily concerned to explain relief policies in the United States , but they draw on British data too , and they clearly intend their analysis to apply to other countries . |
| 30 | They get on fine , which I thought was against all the rules . |