Example sentences of "being based [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | December 13 , 1956 : Dear Bunny , There are some delightful , first-rate pieces in your book , such as the one about your father and the first of the two about the Jews , but I am as always distressed by your conception of Russian history , which is all wrong , being based on the stale Bolshevist propaganda which you imbibed in your youth . |
| 2 | Similarly , Gnosticism was opposed to orthodox Christianity by its hostility to history , for instead of being based on the idea that God prepares for the future by way of the past it regarded the world as one from which God was absent . |
| 3 | It is possible to make computer models that simulate many of these changes in shape , the model being based on the asymmetric contraction of microfilaments . |
| 4 | Their opposition was on religious rather than political grounds , being based on the belief that God alone had authority over the kirk and that interference with the kirk was interference with God 's wishes . |
| 5 | So far as the UK is concerned , the proposed Directive contains little that is new in substance and , indeed , it shows clear signs of actually being based on the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers , the UK rulebook for takeovers . |
| 6 | What I have in mind are portfolios or fascicles of data and tasks representing modules of enquiry which deal with issues of current pedagogic concern in a format which , being based on the pragmatic model that I have proposed , draws the teacher into the appraisal and application of ideas . |
| 7 | They must , however , take the subject to the limits of current knowledge and they are increasingly being based on the concept of a course built around a major ( ten man-year ) project . |
| 8 | The Alliance is confident that existing Czech software legislation will be amended in June , with new laws being based on the recommendations of European Community directives . |
| 9 | He summed up the benefits of open systems to Harris as including a reduction in operating costs of between 60% and 75% , functional staff reductions of between 20-50% , software maintenance savings of between 50% and 60% and cost avoidance in the region of $250m to $300m , this being based on the cost per MIPS of a mainframe , $44,300 , compared with a workstation server of $761 per MIPS . |
| 10 | Similarly , sociologists have challenged the findings of criminologists and psychiatrists as being based on the people who are seen by psychiatrists only , not on those who are never seen in the prison , the clinic or the hospital . |
| 11 | It could explain why heavy objects fall to the ground ( seeking their natural place at the centre of the universe ) , it could explain the action of siphons and liftpumps ( the explanation being based on the impossibility of a vacuum ) , and so on . |
| 12 | The cost of maintaining these additional versions is extremely small , being based on the spaces occupied within a filing cabinet which must be serviced and kept warm and dry . |
| 13 | Attlee 's Labour Party had broken out of the ghetto of solidly working-class support , its 1945 victory being based on the electoral sympathy of a broad section of the middle class . |
| 14 | Julia Kristeva and Gilles Deleuze both reject the Aristotelian logic of the excluded middle which they see as being based on the subject-predicate structure of the sentence . |
| 15 | The two most ambitious of these projects , the Shire Hall in Warwick ( 1754–8 ) and Hagley Hall , Worcestershire ( 1754–60 ) , are in a competent if conventional classical manner , the latter being based on the Palladian Houghton Hall , Norfolk ; but most of his work continued to be in the Gothic style with which he had made his reputation . |
| 16 | These analyses , being based on the desk top machines , were available instantaneously during negotiations . |
| 17 | The purchaser claimed under two heads , first for the capital loss and secondly for his loss of profits — the latter head being based on the difference over three years between the profits made at the machine 's actual rate of output and the higher profits which would have been made at the warranted rate of output . |
| 18 | The potential profits of the buyers of the 60 per cent of Entel to be sold off would be reduced by being based on the purchase price of $1,900 million and not on the $3,500 million net asset value as fixed by the government . |
| 19 | The judges examined both the evidence of witnesses and written documentation , the procedure being based on the Roman civil procedure . |
| 20 | CDTV will probably have more problems than CD-I in this regard , being based on the Amiga computer . |
| 21 | But when you start to think about it in terms of erm sort of psychological explanation as you 're becoming used to , then it becomes perhaps not such a good way of thinking about perception Matlin 's got some very examples in it of this of those sorts of things By and large were concerned with people 's experience , self-reported experience quite often , of the phenomena saying well tell me what you see when you look at it rather than being based on the sort of lovely stuff that we love , good solid empirical data , yeah ? |
| 22 | John Paton , defined ILP policy as being based on the Socialism in our Time programme . |
| 23 | Where such alternative grazing is not available each year , control can be achieved by anthelmintic prophylaxis , the timing of treatments being based on the knowledge that the peak time for the appearance of N. battus L3 is May to early June . |
| 24 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 25 | Such an equilibrium could only have been a temporary one , being based upon the fear of a common enemy , rather than on a positive material joint interest . |
| 26 | my Lord this is er , mason , and the claim of course being based upon the certain |