Example sentences of "[verb] [is] based [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resistivity surveying is based on the principle that underground features such as masonry walls have a high resistance to an electric current , whereas filled-in features , such as ditches or pits , have a lower resistance . |
| 2 | All your accounts remain separate , but the amount of interest you earn is based on the family 's total . |
| 3 | If an order is made , the sum to be disgorged is based on either the amount of the profit which has accrued to the insider , or the amount of loss or adverse affect to investors , or indeed , a combination of both these factors . |
| 4 | The sum saved is based on a calculation of the average community service costs of all relevant clients at six month and/or 12 month assessment . |
| 5 | Moreover , it is of greatest benefit to the top-rate taxpayers , as the relief granted is based on the taxpayer 's marginal ( ie highest ) rate of taxation . |
| 6 | The system which was adopted is based on the chart shown in Figure 4.6 . |
| 7 | The method used is based on collecting and clustering bigram statistics using a rank correlation metric . |
| 8 | The language syllabus of Streamline is based on the carefully controlled introduction of new structures and vocabulary . |
| 9 | The parsing algorithm provided is based on chart-parsing techniques . |
| 10 | We say that we will protect single retired people , we will ensure that the rebate system is improved not only to help those people , but to target help on all those who need it and we will ensure that what people pay is based on their ability to pay and not on their status . |
| 11 | The romantic refusal to analyse is based on a fallacy . |
| 12 | One approach to control is based on the susceptibility of the L3 to desiccation and on the fact that a major route of infection is percutaneous . |
| 13 | The description that follows is based on an article that appeared in the November 1989 issue of the IMS Journal , and additional material supplied by the authors . |
| 14 | Because the question remains unanswered , much of the discussion that follows is based on hypothetical alternatives , some more plausible than others . |
| 15 | The reasoning which follows is based on the opinion , already inseparable from what has been said , that appropriation is a neutral expression and does not convey the sense of taking property for oneself without the owner 's authority . |
| 16 | Instead what follows is based on insights gained through personal involvement in writing the one hundred hour language courses for the primary phase B.A. and P.G.C.E. courses in response to D.E.S . |
| 17 | The account of them which follows is based on the print of the Bill which is dated 19th February 1975 . |
| 18 | Much of the analysis which follows is based on the models used in Emerson et al. |
| 19 | Beesley watched the action with his daughter on several successive evenings , and what follows is based upon the account she gave to me . |
| 20 | The amount that you are assessed to pay is based on what you should be able to afford to take out as a loan . |
| 21 | Where inability to pay is based upon the failure to comply with a statutory demand , the date and manner of service of the demand must be stated and that to the best of the petitioner 's knowledge , the demand has neither been complied with nor set aside nor is any application to set aside outstanding ( r 6.8(2) ) . |
| 22 | Where inability to pay is based upon an unsatisfied execution , the court from which the execution or other process was issued must be specified together with particulars of the return , for example , the bailiff 's return to a warrant of execution or the sheriff 's return to a writ of fieri facias that there were no goods to levy upon . |
| 23 | Much of how and why we react as we do is based on such factors . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know if it should be that important if everything we do is based on good sound scientific principles , because if people perhaps in the same industry are situated in different places in the estuary , y'know , if one was to point the finger at the other and say ‘ But you allow him to discharge such and such and you only let us do this ’ , then we should be able to turn round and say , ‘ Ah yes , but you 're discharging in a different place and the river quality in this different place needs different treatment . ’ |
| 25 | Tt but everything we do is based on this , based on functions . |
| 26 | ‘ You forget , Fran , that , as a Capricorn , everything I do is based on hard fact , not imagination . |
| 27 | The underlying approach taken is based upon n-gram statistics . |
| 28 | The lexicon that has been developed is based on the vocabulary of a learners dictionary ( the OALDCE ) and supplemented by words from the LOB corpus . |
| 29 | Little reliable information is available at the time of writing and much of the " data " which does exist is based on guesswork — more or less inspired and sometimes merely sensational . |
| 30 | To take advantage of the effect of sample size , that is that the means of random samples will have a nearly normal distribution if the sample is large , the decision to readjust is based on sample means rather than individual measurements , justifying the use of the 3s limits . |