Example sentences of "[is] based [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's based on a lot of African tribal rhythms , but played on urban ‘ found ’ percussion — bits of old metal , anything . |
| 2 | ‘ If we give a hard message it 's based on a good knowledge of their world . |
| 3 | It 's based on a radical restructuring of the company into more independent business divisions , unified by common social , economic and environmental goals . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's based on a country tune , you know the one . ’ |
| 5 | It 's based on a kind of cowardice , a lack of reliance on your own judgement if it suceeded before it 'll succeed again , it 's just a money making machine and shows no literary thought by the publishers . |
| 6 | Chrysler went to GM-owned Lotus to help develop its first multi-valve engine , although it 's based on an existing Chrysler four . |
| 7 | This is n't actually a direct film conversion as the game 's based on an arcade machine . |
| 8 | It 's based on an allowance of 1200cals a day , which should produce a good , steady rate of weight loss for most moderately overweight women ( men should allow an extra 300cals a day ) . |
| 9 | Underneath the skin , it 's based on the old floor pan and mechanicals , but it does look better , has more performance , rides more comfortably and boasts better brakes . |
| 10 | It 's based on the two fingered symbol of peace , and although it was originally designed for lead guitars I eventually scaled it up to use on my basses ; it 's one of the features that makes them instantly recognisable . ’ |
| 11 | It 's based on the use of essential oils , found in minute traces in plants , which have a powerful aroma that can boost your mental well-being as well as treating physical ailments . |
| 12 | That 's based on the same number of colour photographs that we had in last year 's annual report . |
| 13 | It 's based on the technology that was developed to help astronauts cope with weightlessness . |
| 14 | It 's based on the short story by Henry James ; a young Governness arrives at a remote country house to look after 2 young children who turn out to be possessed by the ghosts of two dead servants . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's based on the 16th century Book of Hours where monks recorded events of the year , except we 're just covering one day . |
| 16 | It 's based upon an environment called Fresco , which has been developed by Professor Mark Linton , now principal researcher at Silicon Graphics Inc . |
| 17 | It 's based in an old coffee warehouse , formerly known as the Martinson building , which is situated a block down from his apartment in Tribeca , a vaguely arty district on Manhattan 's Lower West Side . |
| 18 | Therefore , the treatment approach is based to a large extent on the principles of crisis intervention ( Caplan 1964 ; Brandon 1979 ; Ewing 1978 ; Bancroft 1979 ) . |
| 19 | Consider for example the case of the avoidance of brother-sister incest , which is based to a substantial degree on an inhibition developed during close domestic association in the first six years of life . |
| 20 | Our modern life is based to a larger extent than is usually realised upon faith in the honesty of the other . |
| 21 | The safety case regime in the North sea is based to a considerable extent on the CIMAH regulations — the major accident hazard regulations as applied to industry on land . |
| 22 | In Verbivore the focus is switched from the principles on which high technology is based to the media through which it is transmitted . |
| 23 | This ability is independent of idiosyncratic beliefs , feelings and usages ( although it may refer to those shared by participants ) , and is based for the most part on quite regular and relatively abstract principles Pragmatics can be taken to be the description of this ability , as it operates both for particular languages and language in general . |
| 24 | This confidence survey is conducted among UK hotel general managers and is based on a sample of almost 100 drawn from different classes , sizes and styles of hotels geographically spread across the country . |
| 25 | The report is based on a University of Salford research project entitled Voicing grievances and getting redress , which is a comparative study of tenants of different types of public sector landlord . |
| 26 | Tallis sets himself the task of showing that much of the structuralist and poststructuralist enterprise is based on a misreading of Saussure . |
| 27 | He further argues that Derrida 's fundamental claim that speech is really writing , and that writing is prior to speech , is based on a redefinition of terms , and that by such methods one could prove anything , that the rich are really poor , that the true is really false , and so on . |
| 28 | The company is based on a novel concept of direct selling , which involves representatives knocking on doors with catalogues and selling household goods on the back of it . |
| 29 | It 's run by the Fila family and is based on a purpose built centre with a 22ft ( 7m ) dive tank , a decompression chamber and lecture rooms . |
| 30 | To take one example , Honderich 's dismissal of the notion of ‘ intellectual imperfection ’ , which Anthony Quinton has described as the pivot of Conservative thought , is based on a very partial rehearsal of the concept . |