Example sentences of "base [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here they met up with a team from the Combined Operations base in the Suez Canal Zone , with two canoe parties under Lieutenant Robert Smith RN . |
| 2 | All of Gold Fields Mining Corporation , also based in the US ; and |
| 3 | But Concord Leasing , also based in the US , slumped to a £75 million loss , from profits of £11 million last time , and the London stockbroker , James Capel , saw profits dive from £14 million to only £2 million . |
| 4 | Last year , it acquired the small Abbots and Sussex dairies , also based in the south , and in January picked up part of the Co-operative Wholesale Society 's milk distribution business . |
| 5 | Classical elasticity as detailed , for example , in Love 's treatise ( Love 1944 ) developed from Hooke 's law ( and the relatively simple Bernoulli-Euler theory for example , for the bending of beams ) to the rigorous theories of Cauchy and Poisson based upon the concepts of central forces between point particles . |
| 6 | The Inclusive Tours Award went to Mr John Corlett , manager of Dawson and Sanderson based at the Upton 's Store in Middlesbrough . |
| 7 | Northern region is headed up by Ronnie Noble based at the Northampton office . |
| 8 | Not so long ago it seemed as if the world was to divide into three main trading blocks : the EC based around the West German economy ; a Northern American block based around the US-Canadian free trade area , and a Pacific unit incorporating the Asian tigers with Japan and the yen at the centre . |
| 9 | In his chapter , ‘ Building on the class reader ’ , Foggin echoes the views of many of the English teachers to whom I spoke when he describes his English teaching as being substantially class reader based for the reason that : |
| 10 | It can be argued , to the contrary , that the more the courts are opened up to arguments based about the interests of the public or of significant sections of it rather than of particular individuals , the more likely are the judges to be drawn into political battles which ought to be resolved in the political arena and not in courts . |
| 11 | Intelligence is essential , although successful School or University examinations may not have been possible through damage to shore term memory ( upon which facility most examinations are based throughout the phase of active addiction . |
| 12 | Currently most departments , including sales , accounts and laboratories are based near the centre of Le Havre in premises built in the early 1900s . |
| 13 | Robert Wilson is an executive director of Baronsmead Associates , a smallish venture capital company based near the City of London in Clerkenwell . |
| 14 | Six people spoke on behalf of CADNO , a protest group based near the Trawsfynydd nuclear power station in North Wales . |
| 15 | Meena will be based with the Fieldwork Services Unit in Astral House . |
| 16 | For the last few years Pinfield had been based with the Langham Group , a somewhat elitist special projects body under Anthony Pellisier charged with producing very experimental forms of drama — using techniques like inlay , overlay and split screening ; for example , matting caption slide backgrounds over black drape stages . |
| 17 | Glasgow design event based along the lines of Designers ' Saturday organised by a group of Glasgow designers and architects as part of the City 's Cultural celebrations . |
| 18 | Government troops were also fighting Karen rebels along the Thai border around Manerplaw , other Kachin rebels in the north-west of Myanma and Naga rebels based along the border with the Indian state of Nagaland . |
| 19 | The dumping of low-level waste is based upon the principle that dilution and dispersal will eliminate hazards . |
| 20 | Therefore , most of our knowledge of the make-up of the stars has been drawn from instruments based upon the principle of the spectroscope . |
| 21 | This elaborate state structure , providing in principle for the greatest possible degree of local self-government , was none the less based upon the principle of democratic centralism which meant that , in the last resort , central decisions could be imposed upon levels of government below them . |
| 22 | The Latvian party leader Boris Pugo attacked the ‘ boundless diktat of the union ministries ’ and called for the establishment of ‘ genuine sovereignty ’ for the union republics based upon the principle of self-financing . |
| 23 | MINIS , when properly developed , could identify and measure the performance of departmental cost centres , and thereby provide a potential for the comprehensive reorganization of departments based upon the principle of decentralization to managerially autonomous accountable units . |
| 24 | In my judgment and for the reasons which I have given , the challenge based upon the implication of a requirement of natural justice must fail . |
| 25 | In these schools and classrooms the more traditional approaches to teaching and learning were rejected , not because they were traditional but because their teachers came to realise that through a programme of learning which was based upon the qualities and gifts of each child , higher standards could be achieved . |
| 26 | SNI 's data dictionary is based upon the US Information Resource Dictionary System model , which is more suited to development , according to Informix , than the European Portable Common Tools Environment dictionary model , which is thought to be stronger at run-time . |
| 27 | Such forecasts are , however , only predictions and are based upon the extrapolation of current trends in both mortality and fertility . |
| 28 | Hence all predictions about what proportion of the total population the 65 + age group will constitute in the future are little more than speculations based upon the extrapolation of current trends . |
| 29 | They deal with patterns of observable structure and employ well-established methods of comparative analysis , often based upon the principles of taxonomy established by earlier generations of zoologists faced with the enormous diversity of the animal kingdom . |
| 30 | Early work on spatial languages was based upon the principles of spatial inference and retrieval , and was not specifically digitally based ( McDermott 1980 ) . |