Example sentences of "[vb base] on the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However they do desecrate the holiest places with their flash-bulbs and hand-held video cameras ; they invade peaceful monasteries and sleep on the outskirts of towns in their evil-smelling ‘ campers ’ . |
| 2 | Larval dragonflies hunt on the bottom of ponds , grabbing worms and other small creatures with long protrusible mouth-parts . |
| 3 | Review and report on the proportion of schemes included in works programmes which have casualty reduction as the primary objective . |
| 4 | Given the importance they place on the interrelationship of words and pictures , the couple 's working lives are surprisingly separate . |
| 5 | They now reside on the walls of Rules of Covent Garden said to be London 's oldest restaurant , which is run by the son of Mrs Fields ' nephew , John Mayhew . |
| 6 | We will examine this mechanism in detail in Chapter 22 , when we focus on the balance of payments and exchange rates . |
| 7 | Both of these depend on the capacity of organisms to integrate previously separated functions through the imposition of a superordinate system relating its subordinate parts ; and this requires the open transfer of information between those parts . |
| 8 | Consumers ' decisions to buy depend on the decisions of entrepreneur-producers to sell . |
| 9 | Decisions by resource owners to sell depend on the decisions of entrepreneur-producers to buy — and vice versa . |
| 10 | Robin Latimer , community care officer at SCODA , rejects any notion that drugs charities are scare-mongering : ‘ It is worrying because residential services depend on the flow of clients . ’ |
| 11 | The waters around Shetland depend on the upwelling of currents from the deep Atlantic ( the North Atlantic Drift , a tribute of the Gulf Stream ) which brings a regular flow of nutrients to the fish spawning and feeding areas . |
| 12 | Just as groups depend on the allocation of roles ( and power ) , so they depend also on the consequences of power — conflict/cooperation , trust/ mistrust , etc . |
| 13 | The Herdwick farmers depend on the sales of animals and wool for their livelihood . |
| 14 | Between 30 and 50 per cent of women with gonorrhoea have coincidental trichomoniasis and up to 40 per cent of women with TV have gonorrhoea — the figures vary between different centres and depend on the group of women being examined . |
| 15 | ( 156 ) … might try providing standard vacation time off but make the vacation pay depend on the number of hours worked . |
| 16 | The costs per capita of providing a particular local public good ( e.g. street lighting , fire service , education ) depend on the number of residents who share the total cost . |
| 17 | The optimum ramp gradient and stepping rate limit depend on the number of steps to be executed ( see following example ) and , in principle , the function generator characteristics could be made to depend on the target position information . |
| 18 | However , the proportions in which elements are produced in the big bang depend on the number of types of neutrino ( the neutrinos play a role in moving energy around the fireball ) . |
| 19 | For the first time , money purchase schemes have been allowed to contract out ( i.e. pension schemes that depend on the outcome of investments rather than a formula based on contributions ) . |
| 20 | The programmed is likely to displace some 15,000 Auyu tribal people , most of whom depend on the forest as hunter-gatherers or rubber tappers . |
| 21 | Many of the alternatives depend on the use of buses in , for example , off-peak excursion services ( say , twice monthly ) , which can be run quite cheaply to large towns in view of marginal pricing and maximizing use of vehicles . |
| 22 | The enthalpy changes also depend on the amount of substances involved in the process . |
| 23 | Unfortunately many people look on the shedding of tears as a sign of weakness . |
| 24 | Lie on the floor with knees bent , feet hip-width apart . |
| 25 | Lie on the floor with knees bent and hands placed at either side of your head . |
| 26 | Lie on the bench with arms out straight , almost vertical , and hold the dumb-bells with palms facing each other . |
| 27 | The mite lives in carpets as well as beds , but few of us lie on the carpet for hours on end . |
| 28 | As with so many of these police powers which impinge on the rights of protesters to freedom of speech and assembly the high quality of police understanding and reasonableness is crucial to success . |
| 29 | She might seem remote to new readers when she talks proudly about being the last family at school to get a TV set , and the books open on the table at mealtimes in her parent 's house . |
| 30 | Polls Apart ? a study of voting patterns conducted by the Centre for Policy on Ageing found that older people do not vote on the basis of self-interest ( eg pensions ) ; they vote on the basis of issues like defence , education and health like the rest of us . |