Example sentences of "[is] based [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's based on Windows 3.0 and the first implementation supports the Informix relational database running on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems , NCR Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000 , IBM Corp RS/6000 and Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix servers .
2 Our relationship does n't have to do with a cause , Father Tom ; it 's based on fear and guilt and power — like all true relationships .
3 He said : ‘ It 's based on demand .
4 The warning 's based on research carried out at the Public Health Laboratory in Gloucester after the 'flu epidemic of 1989 .
5 It 's based upon X-Windows 11 release 5 , and is binary compatible with Motif 1.1 applications , according to OSF .
6 McDonald 's Development Company , the European HQ of McDonald 's based in Frankfurt , Germany , staged their biennial 3-day ‘ Bakery Seminar ’ at the Manchester Hilton and commissioned SEL to provide a full simultaneous interpreting service in German and English .
7 This article is based on J K Galbraith 's latest book , ‘ The Culture of Contentment ’ , published last week by 9Sinclair-Stevenson
8 This system is based on occupation , and people interviewed in market research are usually classified by the occupation of the chief income-earner ( the head ) in their household .
9 Intended for middle managers with at least two years ' relevant experience it is based on distance learning course and assessment materials which can be integrated with the individual 's work-place activities , thereby minimising career disruptions and maximising the benefits to employee and employer alike .
10 One is based on distance measures and simulated annealing , the other on the application of heuristic rules to clean the data into a consistent set .
11 It is based on army issue shovels and although very compact could be used to dig anything from a small surface hole to a trench !
12 It is based on Sun 's own Solaris 1.0-to-Solaris 2.0 migration kit Pipeline which SI has licensed and broadened .
13 ( Ruby does not need FDA clearance because it is based on products that occur naturally . )
14 Such a dismissive attitude , which fails to see research as part of a professional task , seems to me unhelpful because whenever we make a decision , it is based on assumptions and values .
15 My model in reading Spenser is based on assumptions that these texts act as types of cultural registers , they provide indications about how Elizabethan society characterised itself .
16 The forecast is based on assumptions of variable temperature rises across the region during the next 50 years , from around 1.1 to 4.2 degrees centigrade .
17 As potential managers they will be better equipped to deal with the complexities of management if they realize that accounting is based on judgement and not on absolutes .
18 Routine , or maintenance , decisions are often , for example , taken at unit level , where present manpower allocation to wards is based on tradition .
19 Look at India , for example , where life is based on non-action .
20 Much of Shavante life , in Maybury-Lewis 's words ( 1971 : 104 ) , ‘ is a function of politics , and Shavante politics is based on competition between groups of males ’ .
21 The story of how the convalescent David Stirling got his proposal into the hands of General Auchinleck was told to the journalist Virginia Cowles in 1958 , and is based on Stirling 's memory of events not too long after they occurred .
22 Secondly , at a time when social workers are particularly concerned to understand how race should influence their practice , it is unfortunate that the study is based on respondents all of whom were of ‘ white British origin , reflecting the populations from which they were sampled ’ .
23 The scheme is based on Goschenen and Fluelen railway stations .
24 You are creating a system within the countryside which is based on inequality .
25 The present institutional structure is based on regulations contained in the 1964 Police Act .
26 Kayak control is based on Simon Dawson 's work on kayak technique and questions current teaching methods .
27 I start by noting that the relationship between banker and customer is one of debtor and creditor and is based on contract .
28 The second type of rule is based on syntax , and checks for dependency relations such as ( in the case of a noun ) the presence of an associated definite article , personal pronoun , etc .
29 My answer to this is based on Darwin 's idea of natural selection .
30 The US justice system is not based on right and wrong , it is based on black and white .
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