Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] a [adj] basis " in BNC.

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1 Kevin Scully , senior vice-president of Global Systems and Technology , says : ‘ What we have can be described as a centralised database with applications that are decentralised on a global basis .
2 NI contributions are calculated on a payment-by-payment basis according to the earnings period .
3 During normal operation of LIFESPAN , the requests for offlining modules are queued on a first-come-first-served basis .
4 Awards which are developed on a national basis and meet the criteria outlined below will be designated as NATIONAL AWARDS .
5 Consultancy , training and enquiry work has been undertaken on a trans-European basis .
6 Through it , Palestinians are struggling on a daily basis to shake off Israel 's authority and to construct their own .
7 Equally , it is vital that job cost records are posted on a daily basis and job cost reports are provided at least once a month to responsible professional staff and partners .
8 In addition , coaching sessions are arranged : there is a scheme organised by Prudential Insurance which runs weekly sessions for six weeks after Easter , and in the summer holidays further coaching has been arranged on a regular basis .
9 Since 1989 benefits have been calculated on a daily basis rather than a weekly basis .
10 A theoretical aim is to test out the generalisability of theories of job satisfaction among teachers which have been developed on a unicultural basis , often from samples of people in many different occupations .
11 Many schemes for housing old people have been developed on a voluntary basis .
12 Resource allocation is also relevant , particularly where charging policies are formulated on a means-tested basis .
13 The courses are arranged on a modular basis , each lasting for one term .
14 organisation Some departments , such as the Welsh , Scottish , or Northern Ireland Offices , are organised on a geographical basis while others such as the Treasury are primarily centred in Whitehall .
15 Some non-time-related texts are organised on a classificatory basis , some on a comparison-contrast , others on a hypothesising basis .
16 Interestingly enough , there are several types of writing commonly practised in school that are organised on a time-related basis , yet are not strictly narratives .
17 THE list of processes thought to occur abiotically at the Earth 's surface has been shrinking on a yearly basis .
18 Erm our marketing has been targeted on a geographical basis er on three main areas .
19 Just like the General Election , our awards are won on a first-past-the-post basis .
20 The sixth company , which does not identify key environmental issues in its planning guidelines , does not do so because strategic issues are not discussed as part of the planning process but are considered on a continuous basis .
21 There then follows a ‘ Spanish Inquisition ’ procedure at which individual cuts and new schemes are considered on a one-off basis in private by a small group of senior politicians .
22 A very large amount had already been collected on a voluntary basis by religious groups for the Famine , making it seem almost superfluous or extortionate to do more .
23 It is admitted that the gradings assigned to the respective countries have been done on a subjective basis and that different observers might well have come up with somewhat different rankings .
24 There 's one of the packages been priced on a forward basis , what does that mean/
25 For example , if you are saving on a monthly basis , the interest rate should be a monthly rate and the term should be measured in months .
26 The results for the current ( ie interim ) period are prepared on a comparable basis to historical data and show clearly where if any seasonal or other irregular fluctuations income and expenditure have been adjusted for .
27 English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years .
28 It is important to bear in mind that these statistics are collected on a changing basis , even though all derive from taxes at death ; they cover both consumption and production property .
29 Finally , relatively little emphasis has been given to the management of data as a corporate resource , available to a wide community : many environmental data are collected on a project-by-project basis and ‘ lost ’ once the urgency of the initial research is over .
30 It does say that they are collected on a monthly basis , so you could say that okay they are .
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