Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The professions have lost many of their better men ; many of those who remain are concentrating on maximising profits and fees to feather nests in the US , Canada or Australia . |
| 2 | And the adaptations they make are made on several different levels erm they might become more alike in their language , in their pronunciation , their rate of speech , their pause or utterance length and their vocal intensities . ? |
| 3 | All of the findings we report are based on the assumption that this questionnaire can accurately and reproducibly detect a change in anxiety , even when the same questionnaire is administered twice with just one hour between each assessment . |
| 4 | More important was the fact that one was a Copt and one a Moslem , which gave hope that , honour being satisfied on both sides , the exchanges might not be carried further . |
| 5 | Much of his criticism of the talks process is centred on Hume , whom he regards as ‘ the antithesis of reconciliation ’ . |
| 6 | The last thing he remembered Rufus say was uttered on a murmuring chuckle . |
| 7 | They fry were fed on baby brineshrimp and although not fast growers they seemed to do well . |
| 8 | All your accounts remain separate , but the amount of interest you earn is based on the family 's total . |
| 9 | Disillusion was etched on the child 's face . |
| 10 | In the early 1770s much hope was placed on supplying drinking water for the navy using a plan suggested by the naval surgeon Charles Irving of making fresh water from sea water by distillation . |
| 11 | Home Alone couple are jeered on holiday jet |
| 12 | At one level we discovered time being spent on different curriculum areas in similar proportions to those recorded by HMI and by other research projects . |
| 13 | Kwik Save is to open on the two Sundays before Christmas . |
| 14 | Least time was spent on cleaning and administration and recording . |
| 15 | Many kibbutzim are founded on the Marxist principle of ‘ from everyone according to ability — to everyone according to need ’ , the guiding ideal being the creation of an egalitarian society . |
| 16 | I would be grateful if the Noble Earl who will , I assume be replying on their behalf , I hope he will be able to explain this matter to us . |
| 17 | During the fifties ignorance about Black people was rife : I remember being asked on many occasions , as a child , if I had lived in the jungle , if my parents ate cat food or even people . |
| 18 | The language syllabus of Streamline is based on the carefully controlled introduction of new structures and vocabulary . |
| 19 | The next thing I remember is standing on the motorway verge , waving for help . |
| 20 | Hew was convicted on the basis of confessions he had made under torture and because he had read The Dogs of War , a novel about a coup in an imaginary country widely thought to be based on Equatorial Guinea . |
| 21 | The next thing I remember was lying on the ground surrounded by players and officials . ’ |
| 22 | Erm well in in the context of what I did say yesterday it 'll come as no great surprise to anyone that like Ryedale we also accept the North Yorkshire County County figures , erm which in short we we find are based on reasonable assumptions and and and an appropriate methodology , compared to some of the more extreme interpretations and projections that have that have been put forward , if I can illustrate that point by reference to er potential building rates , that the highest figure that 's been suggested is the one put forward by Mr Grigson , of Barton Willmore , I 'm talking for the moment about Greater York generally , and I 'll come onto the Selby aspect in a minute . |
| 23 | We say that we will protect single retired people , we will ensure that the rebate system is improved not only to help those people , but to target help on all those who need it and we will ensure that what people pay is based on their ability to pay and not on their status . |
| 24 | ‘ Not working to full potential ’ is a legend many of us feel is engraved on our hearts . |
| 25 | erm They do n't like them to buy copies of the school reading scheme and keep it at home and go through it book by book , that they feel is encroaching on their professionalism . |
| 26 | Advise was given on how to colour the legs with substances such as cold tea , coffee , gravy browning , cocoa powder etcetera with the seams drawn in with pencil , crayon or burnt wood or cork . |
| 27 | Shocked by recent scandals involving fake Giacometti and Rodin works ( see The Art Newspaper No. 14 , January 1992 , p. 1 and No. 17 , April 1992 , p. 1 ) and alarmed by the discredit being heaped on their profession , France 's fourteen leading bronze founders have met in Paris under the auspices of their professional union , the Syndicat Général de Fondeurs de France , to discuss means of combating forgery . |
| 28 | Since the Publications Counter is closed on Saturdays and Sundays , the question was deleted in questionnaires issued on these days . |
| 29 | Is that not the best discouragement to crime and an encouragement to those elderly people who fear being attacked on the streets ? |
| 30 | No , if they bid for the franchise , then , and get it , obviously that franchise runs for the period , and by the way , a lot of the criticisms in the film , I think were based on a misunderstanding that all the franchises are going to be short , they 're not , those where there 's a substantial investment going in can be quite a bit longer |