Example sentences of "[verb] [been] based on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norway 's brilliant market has been based on a clear cut recovery situation after the trough of 1986 . |
| 2 | Their post-war policy has been based on the effort to create an enduring Franco-German axis that would maintain French power in Europe . |
| 3 | Their post-war policy has been based on the effort to create an enduring Franco-German axis that would maintain French power in Europe . |
| 4 | And that 's precisely what is so impossible to say aloud , for their entire life together ( already over twenty years of life together ) , has been based on the illusion of love , an illusion which both of them have been anxiously guarding and nurturing . |
| 5 | Much of this expenditure , which has taken such a toll , on both the exchequer and the environment , has been based on a simple assumption which is deeply embedded in agricultural thinking : that excess water is the enemy of good husbandry and must be driven off the land . |
| 6 | The sample has been based on a random choice of houses . |
| 7 | Frequently , the primary focus has been based on the supposed economic benefit of partnership rather than on educational — or learning — outcomes . |
| 8 | The third high-risk group comprises manual workers without hobbies and interests , whose entire social contact has been based on their workplace . |
| 9 | Another more modest project has been based on a school garden in Botswana . |
| 10 | All that has gone before in this book has been based on the premise that a worshipable ‘ god ’ is not the creator of the universe , but is an entity extracted by human intelligence from the evolutionary story . |
| 11 | The financial information in the group 's accounts relating to Ferromet Resources Inc and its subsidiaries has been based on unaudited management accounts for 1991 . |
| 12 | In the knowledge that so much of the central and parochial planning has been based on these kinds of projections , many ministers want to ignore the evidence from the past and present , and work in the hope that God will do a new thing . |
| 13 | Although the emphasis of policy changes with different governments , British merger policy has been based on the cost-benefit approach , although there are free market approach overtones . |
| 14 | Although British merger policy has lacked consistency and coherence , it has been based on the principle that mergers which are deemed to be ‘ against the public interest ’ should be prevented . |
| 15 | The Prime Minister added : ‘ Every Parliamentary answer I have given or letter I despatched has been based on the position I understood it to be . ’ |
| 16 | Wholesale reform of language to eliminate sexism has proved more difficult , however ; particularly when it has been based on simplistic accounts of what language is and how it works . |
| 17 | In fact , a large proportion of American cinema has been based on the ‘ optioning ’ of best sellers , in an endless , sleazy scramble for respectable cash . |
| 18 | Research which has suggested that there has been an increase in voluntary early retirement has been based on the responses of financially secure early retirees ( see , for example , Heidbreder 1972 ; McGoldrick and Cooper 1980 ) . |
| 19 | A prime argument has been based on the culture of Africa to which wheat and grape are foreign . |
| 20 | This has been based on an OEM pact for the Cobol compiler and debugging technology in the Development System , but Microsoft is withdrawing that the better to address ‘ the needs of corporate Cobol customers with a broader range of Micro Focus products that both companies will promote . ’ |
| 21 | This has been based on an OEM pact for the Cobol compiler and debugging technology in the Development System , but Microsoft is withdrawing that the better to address ‘ the needs of corporate Cobol customers with a broader range of Micro Focus products that both companies will promote . ’ |
| 22 | In the past the case has been based on the wish to delay in unstimulated life it home or admission to a training centre . |
| 23 | Much of the comparative analysis of tenure and mobility has been based on US experience where an average worker aged 55 would , for example have worked for 10 different firms compared to only four in Japan . |
| 24 | For a minister , whose president 's integrity has been based on ‘ living in truth ’ , it is a telling evasion . |
| 25 | This weakness has been largely du , they suggest , to the fact that readability research has been based on an impoverished psychology of reading . |
| 26 | In Tomlinson 's argument , this discrepancy between the marked growth of the dominant enterprises and the relatively static overall position as regards plant size is taken as throwing doubt on the notion that the growth of the dominant enterprises has been based on the exploitation of economies of scale . |
| 27 | The masses of the jovian planets are now known accurately from the Voyager missions , but in the past they were not , and much of the speculation on Planet X has been based on residuals from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 's ephemeris DE200 and it predecessors , which used a Neptune mass in error by 0.5 per cent . |
| 28 | Carlton Books ' achievement , he says , has been based on an ‘ unashamedly commercial ’ approach , combined with a willingness to look beyond traditional publishing methods , to the music or magazine or advertising industries , for inspiration . |
| 29 | Although discussions about translating targets into action plans are at a preliminary stage , the succession of target setting exercises has been based on a broad concept of the influences on health . |
| 30 | Everything I have been saying so far , however , has been based on calculations using Einstein 's general theory of relativity . |