Example sentences of "to be based on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a theory would have to be based on the equations of fluid motion instead of those of the dynamics of molecules interacting only through elastic collisions . |
| 2 | ORKNEY Harbours Authority is calling for a helicopter to be based on the islands for rescue work and pollution control , following the Braer oil tanker disaster in Shetland . |
| 3 | This is unfair criticism — Gooch produces a mass of indicative , albeit necessarily speculative , evidence in favour of his hypothesis — but nevertheless it is true that our knowledge of the past is and has to be based on the artefacts surviving from that past : lacking the artefacts , all we can do is make an educated deduction . |
| 4 | It purports to be based on the recollections of courtiers and retainers hunted up after the fall : but I have heard it suggested that the author did not take to the Picador edition 's cover display of a picture of Haile Selassie , perhaps on the grounds of a misleading particularity . |
| 5 | This book seems to be based on the techniques I have long suspected some producers use to keep a discussion going for the full length of a programme whether there is anything in it or not , to keep up the emotional temperature even about unexciting things , and to emit statements which are just distorted enough to get people objecting , whether they are worth objecting to or not . |