Example sentences of "were base [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the provinces of the empire , however , there was no choice of magistrates : the provincial governor ( or a deputy appointed by him ) heard all cases , whether they were based on the civil law or not ; and we can hardly expect that he switched from one procedure to another according to which kind of case he was hearing .
2 Humanistic hands These styles started in Italy in the fifteenth century and were based on the Carolingian minuscule .
3 These doses were based on the same proportion ( 1/200 ) of the recommended doses for adult patients .
4 They were based on the active ingredients norfloxacin ( 7 ) , enoxacin ( 8 ) or ofloxacin ( 9 ) .
5 Again , all the applications demonstrated were based on the published case studies .
6 The proposed regions , which would each have an elected regional council , were based on the pre-1987 provinces and on a 1984 language survey .
7 The Griffiths proposals were based on the further development of a mixed economy of welfare .
8 Some were based on the pre-war zaibatsu family-run conglomerates , others are centred on a big manufacturer such as Toyota , Nippon Steel or Matsushita .
9 Finally , the common law contained areas of tortious liability for interference with family and service relationships which were based upon the archaic idea that a man had a proprietary interest in the services of his family and his servants .
10 These decisions were based upon the following criteria .
11 Both the Schools Council and Nuffield approaches shared in most of the projects they supported an essentially instrumental view in that they were based upon the managerial assumption that the initiators determined the content and progress of the programme ( although Arts and the Adolescent ( Schools Council , 1975 ) was a notable exception ) .
12 However , while these ideas were based upon the projected outcome of the ECSC , they did not originate within that organisation nor from any kind of collaboration among its constituent members .
13 The Fulro leadership was based in the Cambodian province of Mondolkiri and , until early 1992 , had enjoyed close links with the Khmers Rouges ; some 1,500 Fulro fighters were based in the Central Highlands .
14 Pearse and Connolly were based in the General Post Office , with Connolly directing operations and Pearse producing morale-boosting propaganda .
15 C Company were the UK Key Company for Exercise Avenue Express , and were based in the coastal town of Hofoaek , fifty kilometres west of Copenhagen .
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