Example sentences of "based [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Malaysian electronics , this ‘ has sometimes led to the ridiculous situation whereby a company based near a factory producing ICs places an order with the manufacturer 's parent company or regional marketing office . |
| 2 | It has just been argued that a thorough analysis of the market attractiveness and competitive strengths of an SBU ( possibly based upon a Porter analysis ) , should provide more insight into the future covariability of the SBU and total market returns . |
| 3 | More often than not the principal criterion used in practice for weeding of all types of collections is the subjective one of ‘ the librarian 's own judgement ’ , based upon a knowledge of the users and of the subject literatures covered by the collection . |
| 4 | PCT ( Personal Construct Theory ) , originated by Kelly ( 1955 ) , is based upon a concept of the individual as an active meaning-maker and participant in the world , able both to contemplate upon and extend his/her understanding of it . |
| 5 | The picture was based upon a construction site in the school grounds and included a complex arrangement of steps . |
| 6 | In this vein , nationalism is described as if it were some independent ideology , strangely based upon a sense of belonging to a particular national or ethnic group , with its traditions and a so-called common history . |
| 7 | As Rogers indicates , the accusation is based upon a measure of truth . |
| 8 | In respect of motion one five eight , the C E C is opposed because it is based upon a misunderstanding of the purposes of sectionalization . |
| 9 | The decision to use Strasbourg as a point of departure for this attempt was based upon a calculation that the strong army garrison in the frontier city would respond to the name of Napoleon , but in fact the whole affair was a disaster and ended in ridicule with the Prince 's arrest . |
| 10 | In a decision certain to arouse controversy but brilliant in its audacity , Dan Flavin will build a column of neon light reaching from the Rotunda 's floor to its skylight , and will occupy all the bays of the spiral ramp with an installation based upon a proposal which the artist realised , in fragment , in 1971 . |
| 11 | Such programmes are , as Chapter 1 pointed out , based upon a notion of contractual accountability . |
| 12 | Most of the respondents felt that in the document moral education is based upon a consensus of values . |
| 13 | This proposal , based upon a Council resolution of May 1985 , was innovative in that it only defines basic requirements , leaving detailed specifications to the individual standardisation bodies . |
| 14 | based upon a profit bottom line for Grant Development , we 're here looking at the planning application and all the implications . |
| 15 | Blake and Mouton ( 1964 ) argue that leadership behaviour is based upon a conflict between two opposing forces within the individual — a concern for the task to be done and a concern for people . |
| 16 | Chiles 's victory was particularly impressive in that it was based upon a campaign which included the explicit rejection of negative campaigning tactics — despite personal attacks upon him by his opponents — and the renunciation of " money politics " in the form of a refusal to accept campaign contributions greater that $100 . |
| 17 | The strength and the uniqueness of the English primary school has been based upon a tradition of generalist training and generalist teaching . |
| 18 | There would , for instance , be a dynamic and advanced economy with the highest possible labour productivity based upon a variety of forms of property and worker participation . |
| 19 | Although one means of detachment from the world is a spiritual asceticism based upon a lack of material possessions , more common has been the desire to accumulate luxuries and objects which themselves signify the lack of any need to engage directly in productive labour . |
| 20 | Based upon a novel by Ulster author Brian Moore , Marie Davenport ( Theresa Russell ) is unfaithful to her husband Dr Alex Davenport ( Mark Harmon ) with terrible consequences . |
| 21 | According to these accounts , the structure of power in capitalism is based upon a state which acts as a mere instrument to serve the interests of those ( the ruling class ) who own the means of production . |
| 22 | The premise behind regarding both want and excess as jurisdictional defects , and the breadth of meaning given to excess , are therefore implicitly based upon a Gould type theory . |
| 23 | The treatment is based upon a discovery , made in Oxford , that absorption of fluids from the intestine of the rat is stimulated and improved by adding these sugars to the intestine . |
| 24 | Main classes are based upon a division of localities into continents . |
| 25 | For the Delphi as with the Victoria Centre it is important that schools recognize their needs but for Roger this is based upon a mutuality of interest which is unimpeded by the operation of specific criteria . |
| 26 | In its leaning position parallels are inevitably drawn with Pisa , yet the tower based upon a pair of translucent cliffs modelled on the Old Man of Hoy takes the romance of Scottishness to its ultimate conclusion . |
| 27 | More explicitly he sees psychodynamic theories as the orthodoxy against which others have railed , either from a positivist and empirical critique ( leading to the development of behavioural social work ) ; or a radical analysis ( based upon a rejection of the individualization of problems and the location of disadvantage at the societal level and the consequent development of radical social work ) . |
| 28 | The annual General Household Survey ( GHS ) , is based upon a sample of approximately 10,000 households resident in Great Britain , and provides some data about the prevalence of acute and chronic health problems as well as considering the utilization of health and social care services . |
| 29 | The study will be based upon a sample of UK small firms in two widely differing industrial sectors , namely , biotechnology and engineering where subcontracting has grown more rapidly in recent years . |
| 30 | On the other hand they could see little merit in a policy based upon a rules approach , since rules are inevitably arbitrary and lacking in any underlying economic logic . |