Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four-party Swedish coalition is likely to be split on the issue , with Environment Minister and Centre Party leader Olof Johansson under strong pressure to drop the project . |
| 2 | This is not an argument against abortion , but the legitimacy of this procedure needs to be based on a concept other than that a woman may choose how she wishes to use her body . |
| 3 | Rumours got around that a collector in Paris had one in a bank vault in the 1940s ; but this story was recently investigated , and was found to be based on a misunderstanding . |
| 4 | So this account seems to be based on a misunderstanding of what Labov 's work has been about . |
| 5 | The structure plans tended to be based on a survey — analysis — plan approach which required a rather determinist view of the issues which they examined . ’ |
| 6 | No battleships were to be built for 10 years ; and the total tonnage of naval ships was to be based on a ratio of 5-5-3 for the USA , Great Britain and Japan , and 1.7 for each of the others . |
| 7 | When I met my husband , I knew he was the one for me , and I knew that I would have to be honest if our marriage was n't to be based on a lie . |
| 8 | These were to be based on a number of polytechnics and other further education establishments which already possessed strong departments of management and in some cases the designation related to a single establishment and in others to a grouping of two or more colleges . |
| 9 | As far as the institutional structure was concerned , the report called for a rationalization of the present pattern to be based on a network of centres in each region , including an important role for the colleges of education ( technical ) , particularly in developing pilot schemes for professional tutors , of whom there should be at least one in every further education college . |
| 10 | These were to be based on a descriptor with learning outcomes and performance criteria , would be internally assessed , and would be of nominal 40-hour length — just like SCOTVEC modules . |
| 11 | It was to be based on a report which the plaintiff had prepared for the Greek Government . |
| 12 | The event has been revamped and the children 's element expanded , but it will continue to be based on a list of ‘ top 20 ’ titles and a catalogue . |
| 13 | At that meeting it was concluded that while a future conference on unity had to be based on a recognition that some differences of emphasis would always exist , they need not disrupt harmony . |
| 14 | All the candidates agreed that the issue was an extremely complex one and that ultimately , within limits , policy had to be based on a woman 's right to choose . |
| 15 | HM Inspectorate seem to command the respect of teachers , although as Becher et al say , ‘ Sometimes this respect appears to be based on an assumption that inspectors must ( because many teachers rarely if ever see them ) be very busy and therefore very able people ’ . |
| 16 | This has to be based on an understanding of the code of ethics , working to an agreed code of practice and so on , and Ann will be saying more on this . |
| 17 | In the event of the Publisher receiving from other parties payments for exploitation of the Work in any other form or manner then the Publisher shall pay the Author a portion to be based on the Publisher 's net receipts from such other parties . |
| 18 | Such a theory would have to be based on the equations of fluid motion instead of those of the dynamics of molecules interacting only through elastic collisions . |
| 19 | Criteria for eligibility in criminal cases remains unchanged and will continue to be based on the test of undue hardship . |
| 20 | ORKNEY Harbours Authority is calling for a helicopter to be based on the islands for rescue work and pollution control , following the Braer oil tanker disaster in Shetland . |
| 21 | But a Royal Bank spokesman said : ‘ We would only expect tenders to be based on the cost per hour , not the total cost . |
| 22 | While the ‘ manufacturing critique ’ of DCF presented by Hill ( 1985 ) may be resisted as argued above , he is nevertheless correct in his fundamental message that assessment ( of the cash flows ) needs to be based on the degree to which order-winning criteria are enhanced . |
| 23 | With little in the way of landmarks , accurate navigation had to be based on the position of farm buildings , roads and the occasional flash flood riverbed . |
| 24 | An explanation for this may lie in the way that children are treated in these two cultures : Western conditioning tends to be based on the idea of guilt . |
| 25 | The concept of structure also has its risks and its dangers , even though it appears to be based on the idea of relations as opposed to entities or determining origins ( as we saw above in the discussion of the Prague School ) . |
| 26 | The conditions for sustained growth outlined in the autumn statement appear to be based on the idea of a revival in consumer spending rather than an investment-led recovery . |
| 27 | Consequently in 1835 the Geological Survey of Great Britain was established by the government for the purpose of producing geological maps of the country to be based on the Ordnance Survey maps as they became available . |
| 28 | FRS 3 , Reporting Financial Performance , the first FRS to be based on the ASB 's own proposals rather than those ‘ inherited ’ from the Accounting Standards Committee , is based on FRED 1 and the comments received on the exposure draft . |
| 29 | This is unfair criticism — Gooch produces a mass of indicative , albeit necessarily speculative , evidence in favour of his hypothesis — but nevertheless it is true that our knowledge of the past is and has to be based on the artefacts surviving from that past : lacking the artefacts , all we can do is make an educated deduction . |
| 30 | Hurd 's new security system is to be based on the GCC , which will provide financial support under Saudi leadership , with Egyptian or Syrian military muscle . |