Example sentences of "base on [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the availability of some defensive shield would help convince national leaders that international security could be based on something other than threatening to blow the other side to oblivion . |
| 2 | Neurosis is socially isolating , and there is no social concern for others based on something other than the desire for a sexual object . |
| 3 | But even worse than this neglect of anything that happened outside the courts of Europe was the way that political history was distilled into a narrative , based on whatever literary evidence was at hand . |
| 4 | William Boot , hero of Evelyn Waugh 's Scoop , is said to be based on which former cabinet minister ? |
| 5 | Rose Shepherd goes on to argue that a first affair , usually based on attraction , leads to further affairs based on nothing more than boredom , loneliness , resentment , or the need for further boosting of confidence once the first extramarital partner has bowed out . |
| 6 | CAB 's confidentiality had not been fully appreciated nor was it realised that the worker was there to supply information required , not to pass judgement on the client or to offer gratuitous advice based on their personal experiences or prejudices . |
| 7 | Both the district and unit team were confident that they could increase their share of the market , based on their entrepreneurial record , spare capacity and efficient units . |
| 8 | Other species seem to be separable into geographical races based on their morphological features . |
| 9 | With large consumers , moreover , the cost of more complex metering was justified , and most were placed on a tariff based on their measured maximum demand as well as a cost-based running charge . |
| 10 | Widows also loose rights to pensions based on their former husbands ' contribution records , if they cohabit or remarry . |
| 11 | A widow or widower whose spouse dies when they are both over pension age can inherit half of the graduated pension based on their late spouse 's contributions . |
| 12 | And their very clear view based on their long and practical experience of the Greater York development market , is that a location South South West of York is more likely to be a successful location particularly for the employment component of the new settlement , than any other sector of York . |
| 13 | This conclusion is based on their content analysis of newspapers in the years 1936 , 1946 and 1976 . |
| 14 | It was based on their general experience and their general local knowledge of the problems and opportunities and constraints on particular areas . |
| 15 | The pension arrangements of miners had been changed earlier in the year : instead of receiving a set pension , retired miners were to be paid pensions based on their average earnings in any five of their last ten years at work . |
| 16 | Downstream people must be willing to take risks based on their best possible estimate of the future . |
| 17 | Members have to make that determination themselves based on their strategic planning , an estimate 88open has been hard pressed to get from them even by the beginning of its new fiscal year . |
| 18 | Members have to make that determination themselves , based on their strategic planning , an estimate 88open has been hard pressed to get from them even by the beginning of its new fiscal year . |
| 19 | Based on their extensive studies on behalf of the National Association of Social Workers into differential use of social welfare personnel , Barker and Briggs ( 1968 ) developed a fairly sophisticated conception of how the social service team would work , and they offered it as an alternative to previously specified models of staff differentiation and utilization . |
| 20 | When some thought of major change is initiated , all those affected will have their own interpretations of what is going on , based on their existing knowledge and experience . |
| 21 | It also shows that , if classed in groups natural to them , rather than in groups based on their remote descendants , the Burgess arthropods are not such a disparate lot . |
| 22 | If I remember rightly West Brom should have thrashed Stoke really ( based on their current form ) . |
| 23 | Their investments were based on their monopolistic position in world markets , their competitive edge in terms of know-how , manufacturing techniques and products , which made investment to capture overseas markets attractive . |
| 24 | IT 'S disgraceful that jailed gangsters Reg and Ronnie Kray have been allowed to commission a kids ' computer game based on their Sixties reign of terror . |
| 25 | From behind bars , the notorious twins — already the subject of books and a film — have commissioned a firm to create a game based on their Sixties reign of terror in Bethnal Green . |
| 26 | Smith and Sambur ( 1980 ) who built the NOAH system have suggested that the discrimination function could be improved by categorising words into four sets based on their acoustic discriminability and semantic content or usefulness . |
| 27 | This non-rationalist basis for eliciting support Weber saw as counterposed to the traditional legitimacy of established authority figures , or to the rational — legal authority formalized in bureaucratic systems and based on their superior technical ability . |
| 28 | The eligibility of the clergy for royal service was , of course , based on their long-established Latin literacy , but it was enhanced by the fact that , unlike noble and laymen , they had no dynasties to create or support ; they were paid with ecclesiastical benefices which could be held in plurality and served by hired deputies . |
| 29 | When the French thinker Blaise Pascal joined those who , in revolt against Aristotle , were prepared to admit a vacuum in nature , he drew a distinction between theology and the natural sciences based on their respective sources of authority . |
| 30 | We have developed polymerase chain reaction assays for the detection of M paratuberculosis and M avium subsp silvaticum , based on their respective multi copy , species specific insertion elements , IS900 and IS902 . |