Example sentences of "can be [verb] on the basis " in BNC.

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1 To avoid this problem the match can be done on the basis of a segment 's features .
2 We think that a coherent radical pluralism can be constructed on the basis of a humanism which accepts , as Marx put it , that human beings ‘ make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 300 ) .
3 This means that nothing contrary to reason can be accepted on the basis of supposed revelation .
4 That is , common interests can be formed on the basis of the branch of production , which in some respects unite wage-workers , managers and employers in a particular branch , possibly in opposition to the interests of wage-workers in other branches .
5 If the census data and the voters ' register are available for each block in a particular city then electoral boundaries can be defined on the basis of equal voting populations per electoral district , and maps of these districts can be drawn .
6 Paragraph 2.9 of the Code of Practice to the Act makes it clear that a person can be detained on the basis of a known history of mental illness following non-compliance with medication .
7 Finally , morbidity rates can be calculated on the basis of data provided by national surveys of self-reported illness .
8 Tephra can be categorized on the basis of the size of the pyroclasts of which it is composed .
9 As we noted in the last chapter , to say that a decision or action is subject to judicial review is to say that it can be challenged on the basis of the rules and principles of public law which define the grounds of judicial review .
10 This apparent third party relationship can be explained on the basis of the continued existence of the Mandate as an international status , on estoppel , and on the need to protect the rights of the inhabitants .
11 McCutcheon can be explained on the basis that the terms of previous contracts had not been consistent .
12 Quite apart from questions of competition policy , takeovers themselves must be the subject of rules , to ensure that investment decisions can be made on the basis of transparent markets and reliable information .
13 Thus a precise estimate of the average height of adult males in this country can be made on the basis of a representative sample of the total population of adult males .
14 It is not a job that can be undertaken on the basis of a business meeting of the governors once a term .
15 More specifically , four main categories of OR models can be identified on the basis of their general objective .
16 With a given size of collection , say 20,000 documents , the appropriate number of headings can be identified on the basis of seeking to create scannable categories .
17 This project examines some of the circumstances in which young children are prepared to abandon the implicit working assumption that the speaker 's intended meaning can be identified on the basis of the verbal message given .
18 The structure shown in fig. 4.1 can be established on the basis of general syntactic criteria .
19 Igneous rocks can be classified on the basis of the proportion of silica ( ) that they contain .
20 The finding of Butler and Glass ( 1974 ) that the magnitude of the CNV was greater over the left hemisphere prior to a verbal task and greater over the right hemisphere prior to a facial discrimination task might lead one to expect that the direction of CNV asymmetry can be predicted on the basis of selective hemispheric involvement in particular tasks .
21 Nevertheless , this test does demonstrate how one particular market situation can be modelled on the basis of prescribed strategic assumptions and DCF contours placed on the portfolio grid .
22 If the unreasonableness produces voidness that means that so far as the law is concerned the clause has never existed : it may well then be possible to claim in tort for the restitution of money or goods although no specific action can be brought on the basis of the contractual force of the clause .
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