Example sentences of "[be] based [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're based for the next few weeks at RAF Lyneham , which is proud to be playing host to one of the most spectacular display teams in the world . |
| 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 | Although these efforts have taken quite different forms in different parts of the world , most have been based on the broad underlying philosophy that social development goals are likely to be achieved more readily if those groups most directly affected ( local communities or recipients of services ) participate in the planning and delivery of services . |
| 6 | Most of the heads ' experiences had been based on the former , although some of the schools had experienced formula funding since April 1988 . |
| 7 | The War Office had therefore designed a structure which , from its general appearance and use , looked to have been based on the idea of a boy 's Meccano . |
| 8 | Frequently , the primary focus has been based on the supposed economic benefit of partnership rather than on educational — or learning — outcomes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The decision to locate an assembly plant at Kalmar was made in 1971 and seems to have been based on the need to expand the production facilities . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | His upbringing , education and training had been based on the assumption that in any situation his class were the natural leaders . |
| 15 | The majority of attempts to gain greater insight into the organisation of the manufacture of ornamental metalwork and the meaning of the decoration have been based on the decoration itself . |
| 16 | AN UNLIKELY winner , John Byme 's bright , affectionate ( and , as usual , part-autobiographical ) comedy may have been based on the dubious allure of flabby men playing rock 'n' roll in the '80s ( Scotland 's The Majestics , led by the formidable Robbie Coltrane ) but it provided umpteen memorable supporting characters , some genuinely touching , if wacky , romantic interludes and tons of '50s classics for the nostalgia vote . |
| 17 | Oyston 's estate-agency fortune had been based on the sort of direct contact with the people to which NoS was aspiring . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | A prime argument has been based on the culture of Africa to which wheat and grape are foreign . |
| 21 | As far as official policies are concerned , assumptions concerning integration have been based on the acceptance of white majority schools as both normal and desirable . |
| 22 | Spain 's pro-Europeanism has long been based on the belief that Europe was needed to defend Spain 's fledgling democracy . |
| 23 | The DSD levies , which up to now have been based on the size of the package , are due to rise sharply in the autumn , and will be higher on the materials which have proved hardest to recycle , especially plastic . |
| 24 | Estimates of the lifespan of human lymphocytes in vivo have been based on the persistence of unstable chromosomal lesions in peripheral circulating lymphocytes after radiotherapy . |
| 25 | In the past the case has been based on the wish to delay in unstimulated life it home or admission to a training centre . |
| 26 | The sessions described here have been based on the premise that students , as receivers of teaching provision , can contribute much from their accumulated knowledge and experience — which is also informed by their values and expectations — to the staff responsible for the management , delivery and content of their courses . |
| 27 | Many novels of adventure have been based on the chivalric theme of service to women . |
| 28 | The search for signs of God in nature had often been based on the assumption that the two books had been written in essentially the same language . |
| 29 | It is arguable that the scale and pattern of grants might more reasonably have been based on the status quo in individual schools , to avoid an invidious distinction between the two " classes " of award . |
| 30 | 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 . |