Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , here on Earth , astronomers at the Anglo-Australian Observatory at Siding Spring in New South Wales have evolved a new system that can produce astonishing infrared views such as are shown on these pages . |
| 2 | Isidro Caballero , a 33-year-old teacher , ‘ disappeared ’ after being detained on 7 February 1989 by an army patrol . |
| 3 | Sir Terence Lewis , 63 , the former police commissioner of Queensland , was sentenced to 14 years ' imprisonment on Aug. 5 , after being convicted on 15 counts of corruption . |
| 4 | More than one witness recalled that it gained height steadily after being launched on several occasions in 1848 , and Stringfellow himself certainly considered that he had demonstrated with it the possibility of powered flight . |
| 5 | New pullets will have the very valuable advantage of being placed on fresh land where there is little , of any , build-up of parasites and bacteria . |
| 6 | For this reason the accelerationist hypothesis stands accused of being based on irrational behaviour , for rational agents should not make persistent mistakes . |
| 7 | The sentence took account of the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced on two occasions , and the Court had made a deduction for that reason . |
| 8 | The possibility of being attacked on public transport is still low , especially if you avoid the more notorious stations , such as those in Central London and at the southern end of the Northern Line . |
| 9 | — like being supported on warm porridge |
| 10 | Apart from being broadcast on Belgian television , this interview has been shown several times to the mainly student audience of the association , but the text has never been published . |
| 11 | I have always considered drama training to be based on simple precepts , for acting is not a complicated art . |
| 12 | Even when the discriminations of the zoologists began to be based on systematic classification rather than fantasy the criteria that were used to distinguish man from non-man remained very uncertain . |
| 13 | It has just been argued that detailed financial and managerial controls need to be based on specific product and/or SBU categories . |
| 14 | The proposed psychology was , however , to be based on neurological findings . |
| 15 | Hew was convicted on the basis of confessions he had made under torture and because he had read The Dogs of War , a novel about a coup in an imaginary country widely thought to be based on Equatorial Guinea . |
| 16 | The more sociological aspects of psychoanalytic theory appear now to be based on firmer foundations , for the theory of the development of the person can be seen to be grounded in the therapeutic encounters of psychoanalysis . |
| 17 | Indeed the type of ceremonial gift exchange to which we have referred seems to be based on egalitarian notions of reciprocity and sharing . |
| 18 | The most familiar is that of total ignorance , in the sense of making no response at all , and which could also be said to be based on total ignorance . |
| 19 | We thought that this was rather a superficial document , containing many forecasts which seemed to be based on inadequate data or questionable assumptions . |
| 20 | Although the assessment of damages often has to be based on scanty evidence , in the opinion of the Board the evidence adduced by the plaintiff as to damage in this case was inadequate to prove any damage beyond the purely nominal . |
| 21 | Within this context of the nation as a family , the actions of individuals were expected to be based on selfless service to their immediate group , and thereby to the state . |
| 22 | Typically , they tend to be based on American-made cars from the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 23 | You would n't want the management of patients to be based on anecdotal evidence , would you , with all its distortions ? |
| 24 | It could be argued , therefore , that good education ought always to be based on multi-cultural principles . |
| 25 | To twentieth century man the operation of these laws appears to be based on necessary events of great cruelty . |
| 26 | Initially , the view in the United States was that the refusal had to be based on good grounds — for example , religious beliefs strongly held — but the position now is moving towards the idea that ‘ individual freedom here is guaranteed only if people are given the right to make choices which would generally be regarded as foolish ones ’ . |
| 27 | Any public rebuke to the BBC , still more any action , will need to be based on watertight evidence . |
| 28 | Mistrust of a solicitor had to be based on tangible fact , and could not simply reflect a suspicion of the profession in general . |
| 29 | Professional views of mental illness , especially when manifested in the public realm , continue to be based on nineteenth century ideas about madness as something that should be brought under control and removed from the public gaze . |
| 30 | For this to be effective each transmitter-receiver system needs to be based on varied signals or there is great confusion and you become unable to tell which ferret is where . |