Example sentences of "were based [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main offices of government were based at the Lateran by Innocent 's time . |
| 2 | These rules were based on the knowledge of what movements the dancers ' bodies were capable . |
| 3 | When these pictures were issued they were indeed contemporary because they were based on the evils of the day . |
| 4 | The bondage suits , for instance , were based on the idea of the strait-jacket , with trousers to match . |
| 5 | The programme suggested that maybe the Babes were based on the Princes in the Tower , allegedly murdered by Richard III . |
| 6 | Brazil 's and Argentina 's previous anti-inflation plans were based on the belief that high inflation is caused by its own momentum . |
| 7 | Some were based on the pre-war zaibatsu family-run conglomerates , others are centred on a big manufacturer such as Toyota , Nippon Steel or Matsushita . |
| 8 | Although the eugenic risk ( that the child of an incestuous relationship between father — daughter or brother — sister will have congenital defects ) was known at the time and was probably a factor , most of the arguments of the reformers were based on the protection of children from sexual exploitation . |
| 9 | They were based on the active ingredients norfloxacin ( 7 ) , enoxacin ( 8 ) or ofloxacin ( 9 ) . |
| 10 | Indeed some of the grandest designs were based on the weakest economic need . |
| 11 | For the source of this we must go back to the Pythagoreans of the sixth century BC , whose cosmological speculations were based on the ‘ tetracys ’ , that is , the geometrical symbol composed of ten discrete points symmetrically arranged in the form of an equilateral triangle with sides of four points each . |
| 12 | 9.86 million hectares of land in the UK ( 48% of its total land area and 51% of its agricultural land ) are designated under Article 3(4) of the Directive ( see Chapter 3 ) , i.e. ‘ less favoured areas in danger of depopulation , ’ but with the tiny-exception of the Isles of Scilly which are designated under Article 3(5) , i.e. ‘ other less favoured areas affected by specific handicaps. ’ 8.65 million hectares were designated in 1974 with adjustments in 1976 , and were based on the old ‘ hill areas ’ under the 1946 Hill Farming Act and already receiving special support measures from the British government . |
| 13 | The rules were based on the principle of substitution using a common ‘ radical ’ ( we would now call it a parent ) to denote members of the same family . |
| 14 | Humanistic hands These styles started in Italy in the fifteenth century and were based on the Carolingian minuscule . |
| 15 | Partnerships were based on the assumption that reasonable people working in a multitude of organizations could devise an agreed strategy for parts of urban Britain : local and central government would work in harness and would incorporate other interests — the police , the business community , voluntary groups , and so on , into a coherent administrative whole . |
| 16 | Hall 's ideas , which he was later to endorse strongly ( Hall , 1982a ; 1982b ) were based on the idea that inner-urban decline in some British cities had gone so far that orthodox approaches to regeneration would not work . |
| 17 | The American grants and UDGs were based on the concept of leverage , by which minimal public-sector support would stimulate substantially greater private-sector investment . |
| 18 | In the provinces of the empire , however , there was no choice of magistrates : the provincial governor ( or a deputy appointed by him ) heard all cases , whether they were based on the civil law or not ; and we can hardly expect that he switched from one procedure to another according to which kind of case he was hearing . |
| 19 | The older , classical industrial syntheses were based on the interconversion of other two-carbon compounds . |
| 20 | Created in Walworth Road , they were based on the assumption that it is possible to bribe one set of electors with money extracted from the pockets of another set . |
| 21 | Marked on the back ‘ Bristol Views ’ , these delightful transfer printed pictures were based on the work of late 18th- and early 19th-century painters such as F. Nicholson . |
| 22 | One must beware especially of solutions that are presented as if they were based on the results of rigorous experimental tests and bear the stamp of proof . |
| 23 | These new arrangements of the non jury courts and the Detention Appeal Tribunal were based on the recommendations of an inquiry chaired by Lord Diplock and are known by his name . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the College could not have informants everywhere and though some funerals were based on the College 's formularies , the client ensured that the most important hallmarks of a College of Arms funeral — the funerary ‘ achievements ’ — were substituted by objects loosely indicative of them . |
| 25 | Housekeeping operations were based on the linen room ( where both linen and cleaning materials were stored ) and there were still several twenty-year-old suction cleaners in use . |
| 26 | ( The reforms were based on the principles discussed in Chapter 5 , pages 80–1 . ) |
| 27 | The Sabbath laws of the Jews were based on the story of creation in Genesis . |
| 28 | It is clear that many of these kinds of views were based on the evidence that in some areas of employment , and in particular on production lines involving speed and pacing , problems began as early as the mid to late forties . |
| 29 | Milton 's views in favour of freeing the press from state , or any other forms of , control were based on the idea that the censorship and control of ideas inevitably resulted in a loss of an element of truth . |
| 30 | He compared the legal systems of different societies , and showed that they varied according to how many laws were based on the principle of repression , and how many on the principle of restoring the situation to what it had previously been ( restitution ) . |