Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [vb base] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Environment Commissioner , Carlo Ripa di Meana , has written to the UK Transport Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , demanding that work on three controversial road development schemes should halt , pending the result of legal action by the Commission against the government over the alleged failure to carry out detailed environmental impact assessments ( EIAs ) , as required by EC law . |
| 2 | There are three bodies of writing that bear on this question and we will consider each in turn . |
| 3 | The revenue has no answer to the anomalies which arise when the cost of providing a loss-making facility means that the average cost basis results in the taxpayer being treated as receiving a sum by way of benefit greater than the cost of buying that benefit on the open market . |
| 4 | It did not occur to us that ‘ working in their usual way ’ might prove to be so different from what we were expecting that work on the project would be brought virtually to a standstill . |
| 5 | Anyone who , like Shoreditch , did n't quite get round to placing that bet on the Tories , may like to know that the bookies are now quoting odds for the next election . |
| 6 | This ‘ fair shares ’ system ( which , with the proliferation of news channels , is surely nearing the end of its useful life ) encourages them to think not in terms of earning that place on the news , but rather in terms of keeping the broadcasters supplied with positive images . |
| 7 | The back feet and diagonal members have these compound curves , produced by making jig templates that are secured on both sides of the component and guided by corresponding bearing that sit on top and below the cutter block . |