Example sentences of "not based [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This understanding needs to be informed , up-to-date and backed by first-hand experience , not based on hearsay or second-hand impressions . |
| 2 | Similarity of appearance and function that is not based on homology is known as analogy . |
| 3 | This is an avouching which is ( a ) about the past , and ( b ) not based on evidence ( as would be the sentence ‘ I must have emptied it yesterday ’ uttered on finding it empty ) . |
| 4 | The appeal of religions is not based on evidence , for there is very little , nor on reason , for the reasons offered for faith are unconvincing , but on illusions — ‘ fulfilments of the oldest , strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind ’ . |
| 5 | Convention confer , in respect of an action based on claims in tort and contract and for unjust enrichment , accessory jurisdiction on account of factual connection even in respect of the claims not based on tort ? |
| 6 | It seems to me that the judgment must be read as a whole , and that paragraphs 19 to 20 , dealing with question 2(b) are completely inconsistent with Mr. Beazley 's construction , seeing that if he were right article 5(3) would become a ‘ catch-all ’ provision , and liability not based on tort , delict or quasi-delict would fall within it , notwithstanding the explicit statement to the contrary in the last two lines of paragraph 19 . |
| 7 | I should add that the court 's answer in paragraph 19 to question 2(b) , which referred to claims in ‘ tort and contract and for unjust enrichment ’ ( emphasis added ) would seem to have the effect of ruling out the third heading since it is a restitutionary claim not based on tort . |
| 8 | Precisely because it was not based on collective , institutionalised , traditional inequalities , dependence had to be an individual relationship . |
| 9 | ‘ The public interest which the court upheld in Neilson 's case was not based on confidentiality … but on the need to reassure informants that statements would not be usable for any but section 49 purposes . |
| 10 | Decisions on change were not based on whim or fancy but were the result of keen study of the meticulous costing records which were always a prominent feature of management at Cessford . |
| 11 | This view is not based on logic but is greatly influenced by the programming to which we have all been subject from day one of our lives . |
| 12 | Second , Rawls is anxious to make clear that the choice of principles because they express human nature ‘ is not a so-called ‘ radical ’ choice : that is , a choice not based on reasons … |
| 13 | The first is not based on chant , but relies on a repeated and varying ‘ motto ’ in the tenor , with similar beginnings to each movement in the upper voices ; its authorship is sometimes allotted to Lionel Power [ q.v. ] or Dunstable . |
| 14 | It has become apparent that the success of evolution theory in the late nineteenth century was not based on acceptance of what we now regard as the most important components of Darwin 's thinking . |
| 15 | further , resistance can be caused by fears which are not based on fact . |
| 16 | Now American producers are tactfully claiming the script is not based on Liz 's life and marriage to builder Larry Fortensky , even though there are striking similarities between her past and the film 's plot . |
| 17 | In adult education , more than in schooling , and more than in higher education , the possibilities for resisting the inevitable are greater , because the learning relationship is not based on compulsion in quite the same way and because there is less male power invested in it . |
| 18 | He said that was not based on fear but on mutual respect . |
| 19 | The US justice system is not based on right and wrong , it is based on black and white . |
| 20 | It would seem therefore that the contingent or empirical links uncovered by experimental science between the nature of the stimulus and the intensity and distribution of neural activity on the one hand and between the properties of the stimulus and those of the evoked sensation on the other are not based on discoveries that go beyond , or arise outside of , ordinary experience . |
| 21 | Many policies are not based on rule books and central government allows considerable discretion to the local state . |
| 22 | They are also a politically uncentralized people , but not based on lineage ties . |
| 23 | I say again — this is not based on party acrimony — that we have severe reservations about two clauses , which must be given serious consideration today or in another place . |
| 24 | Japanese organizations are not based on familism . |
| 25 | The fact is Koi have a pecking order — not based on aggression , so much as a will to be first up to the pellets . |
| 26 | In effect , this was merely an attempt to generalise the agreement reached in Bedfordshire in 1930 , although the criterion adopted then was not based on population size of centres but on local government boundaries , a much more advantageous position for the District , than the 1938 proposal . |
| 27 | Although the two reports agree that the best definition of effectiveness is the number of livebirths per 100 treatment cycles , the Geneva report gives the ‘ ultimate success rate ’ as judged by livebirth rate to be 25% , a figure not based on population data . |
| 28 | Reunification has resurrected the class structure , not based on background , but on wealth . |
| 29 | It is not based on compassion . |
| 30 | If forms of life exist whose chemistry is based on silicon rather than carbon , or ammonia rather than water , if creatures are discovered that boil to death at — 100 degrees centigrade , if a form of life is found that is not based on chemistry at all but on electronic reverberating circuits , will there still be any general principle that is true of all life ? |