Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [vb base] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1957 , costs were too uncertain and experience too limited in putting together so complex a weapon system for the Treasury to do more than impress on the Air Staff that the TSR 2 must be accommodated within the Air Ministry 's financial ceilings . |
| 2 | The absence of any prospect of being able to do more than survive on the finances available to them can be deeply depressing . |
| 3 | Much of the time , I could do no more than lie on the wheelbarrow to hold it down . |
| 4 | Some of the visitors , however , would do more than stand on the harbourside to watch , they would put to sea with a crew for a night 's fishing . |
| 5 | The legal consequences are much the same as ensue on the dissolution of any firm or the departure of partners . |