Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the base " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In particular , they will be identifying any tasks which can be completed using the base skills of the craftsmen , or with minimal additional training . |
| 2 | Another advertising agency , Future Image , has broadened the base of its activities with an extension into design and print . |
| 3 | The introduction of life peerages was partly designed to broaden the base of membership but it can be argued that life peers have not made as large a contribution to the work of the House as had been hoped . |
| 4 | He tried to broaden the base of support for the government , relying as far as possible on legal processes in restraining the press and arresting suspects , sacking the hated Minister of Education , Tolstoy , and planning steps to alleviate the burden of redemption payments on the hardest-pressed peasants . |
| 5 | This has narrowed the base of the campaign and alienated wider involvement . |
| 6 | Campaigner : Father James Morrow at the former 18th century Catholic chapel in Braemar which has become the base for his national campaign |
| 7 | The Bank of England has cut the base rate by one per cent to eight per cent , its lowest level since June nineteen eighty-eight . |
| 8 | When the thyristor triggers into conduction it presents a virtual short-circuit across Zener diode D4 ( which has held the base voltage of the pnp transistor TR3 at a cutoff level of 3.3V ) and so pulls the base down sufficiently to switch TR3 on . |
| 9 | British Naval Intelligence had decided to raid the base ; and intended to return with the Dane if he was an Allied sympathiser . |
| 10 | That projection of course took into account the fact that you 'd raised the base and therefore you had extra money to find . |
| 11 | Describing his government 's policy on March 8 as the " only possible programme " , Olszewski sought to broaden the base of his coalition , sworn in in December 1991 [ see pp. 38685-86 ] . |
| 12 | These could either take the form of specific questions on the material contained in the case studies or they may be used to provide the base for students to be set exercises involving library research . |
| 13 | Yeah , well you 're going to do the base of it bigger are n't you ? |
| 14 | Banks may keep cash balances surplus to their requirements in times of ‘ easy ’ money to enable them later to resist open market operations when the authorities are attempting to squeeze the base . |
| 15 | It was used to produce the base moulds for the fibreglass fuselages for the replicas and carried the tail code ‘ 27–15P ’ in the film . |
| 16 | There is then a no gain/no loss disposal of his investment in the old company , and the gain that would have arisen goes to reduce the base cost of the qualifying investment . |
| 17 | Hereford MP Colin Shepherd has lobbied to keep the base open . |
| 18 | Earlier , during a stopover visit to Guam , Cheney had promised to consider closing the base . |
| 19 | But the Marines wo n't have taken the base yet . ’ |
| 20 | It will become an increasing necessity as institutions move towards the 1990 's and attempt to broaden the base of their student intake ; initial teacher education courses will hopefully have a much wider range of students on their courses . |
| 21 | Roll out the marzipan on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour into a large rectangle and use to cover the base , smoothing into the hollow and over the corners , and trimming away excess from around the bottom . |
| 22 | Use to cover the base and the lid of the sarcophagus , easing into the corners and hollow . |
| 23 | The pastry cases are cooked blind ( do not forget to prick the base with the tip of a sharp little knife ) protected with paper ( it burns easily , like all pastry containing sugar ) and filled with dry beans or rice . |
| 24 | The rich coastal plain continued to provide the base for great estates , ruled by their thegns , some of whom had their possessions ratified by charters like the one just quoted , whose boundaries can often still be traced . |
| 25 | Or they 've kicked the base of a door to make sure their boot is on comfortably . |
| 26 | Once you 've laid the base , what are you going to put on it ? |
| 27 | The Durham Players had found the base for their pageant wagon in a farmyard , to which it had to be returned . |
| 28 | Mr Lang said he was encouraged by the interest in helping to run trusts which had allowed the base of selection to be broadened . |
| 29 | Then you have to modify the base to suit particular circumstances . |
| 30 | At the ‘ top end ’ the peculiarly British mutual accommodation and interpenetration of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy has licensed an extension of the term ‘ middle class ’ until there is only a vestigial ‘ upper class ’ against which to draw a contrast , while at the same time there have been successive waves of new recruits which have enlarged the base of the ‘ class ’ : the new groups of professionals , managers and technical experts which expanded from the latter half of the nineteenth century onward with the development of capitalist industry and trade ; the more recent expansion of salaried employment in education , research , health , social welfare , administration and planning . |