Example sentences of "and [vb base] on them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company 's ability to adapt to new opportunities and capitalize on them depends on its capacity to share information and involve everyone in the organization in a systemwide search for ways to improve , adjust , adapt , and upgrade . |
| 2 | It teaches you a lot of hard lessons but erm if you recognize those and build on them erm then you can succeed in this market place . |
| 3 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
| 4 | You say , O K , this is it , put it all away , because I 've got to cope , I 've got to survive in this life , so know what your stress points are and act on them . |
| 5 | And we 've had one meeting be , between , just really detailed some of the , some of the issues that we find and focus on them a bit more . |
| 6 | They want rearing and all that , they want to rear you see but so long as you get them settled and stand on them do anything , keep them down . |
| 7 | And I suppose I stick worms and maggots into kids ’ mouths and piss on them , too , eh ? ’ he shrieked . |
| 8 | But in the real world , where most of us enjoy our horses and look on them as part of the family , pony power can really score . |
| 9 | My favourite trick was to hide above everyone and jump on them . |
| 10 | Burn said that immediately after the assessors were appointed he proposed that each judge should examine the schemes separately and indicate on them which he considered to be the best . |
| 11 | People make fun of them and spit on them and laugh at them … " |
| 12 | Try , therefore , to pick out the cases that are most apt for your argument , and rely on them . |
| 13 | That those kinds of women make everyone need them and rely on them , so they foster an array of — of emotional cripples around them . |
| 14 | When snow many feet deep blankets the land and the lake is covered with ice , the beavers are able to swim out from their lodge beneath the ice , retrieve the green branches and feed on them throughout the winter . |
| 15 | In one version of the mental test the prices of items bought were printed on the answer sheet so that they did not have to be memorized : in an alternative version the prices were not printed so that it was necessary both to memorize the numbers and operate on them . |
| 16 | The big doors would open for them and close on them and McCloy and the men who were ‘ not quite up to his class ' would unload them and store the cargoes here . |
| 17 | In this Report we draw these comments together , and expand on them in chapter 11 . |
| 18 | The recently formed Council of Labour should summon a rank-and-file conference of all the radical political movements in Ireland and call on them to discuss the creation of an all-Ireland socialist party . |
| 19 | Charman was pleased to see Gedge return to demo tapes recorded before he joined and write on them : ‘ The Wedding Present , featuring Mike Bedford . ’ |
| 20 | As Tiguary announced the plan to the assembled chiefs , Dulé could see the scene in his mind 's eye : the fire licking up one mast , then leaping in the rigging to the other , snaking through the spars , then falling in sparks , and setting the decks to smouldering while sleepy men sloshed water about with the balers , yelling orders to one another , until , when the flames had lit up all the timbers and the ship blazed in a transparent lattice of spars and ribs , her defenders would fling themselves into the sea and the warriors would swoop out of the shallows and fall on them : it would be as easy as catching fish . |
| 21 | And work on them he did until late in the afternoon when the seemingly ‘ dead ’ men were transferred to a newly opened medical ward . |
| 22 | The student should make notes of his errors and work on them . |