Example sentences of "to be [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The brand-new Linfield strip will be available in July and it 's believed to be based on a classic Italian design .
2 As we have seen with life-histories , social research does not have to be based on a representative sample .
3 There does seem to be a case , therefore , for some work in initial training to be based on a general language section or sub- department which is committed to presentation of language issues , and considering their relevance in schools and other institutions .
4 The process of understanding needs to be based on a complete semantic theory and representation ; recognition does not .
5 Instead of local taxation being based on property values , it is to be based on a flat rate per capita charge levied on all adults , with limited rebates for some groups .
6 On this ‘ scientific ’ view of standard setting , the design of consents to discharge polluted water is to be based on a dispassionate consideration of the amount and kind of pollution load any watercourse can bear .
7 This preference for speech tends to be based on a logocentric assumption that speech directly expresses a meaning or intention that its speaker ‘ has in mind ’ .
8 It 's going to be based on a three-channel system , each channel having a completely different voicing , so hopefully there 'll be a sound there to suit everyone .
9 Where the concept of the Created God is accepted , it is not difficult to differentiate between a healthy conscience and a guilt complex , for the criterion will then be known to be based on a single undisputed source of ethical knowledge .
10 The exclusivity principle , therefore , seems to be based on a false premise , namely that AJR procedure is necessary and desirable for dealing properly with all purely public judicial review actions .
11 accounting standards and policies consistent with and to be applied on a similar basis to those adopted for and implicit in the accounts of the Company for the year ended [ date 19XX ]
12 accounting standards and policies consistent with and to be applied on a similar basis to those adopted for and implicit in the accounts of the Company for the year ended [ date 19XX ]
13 Thus a contract for the sale of future goods ( e.g. a crop to be grown on a specific farm ) will not be avoided by section 7 if the goods do not materialise .
14 It is unclear with the development of the single market whether statistics will continue to be maintained on a national basis or whether these will be subsumed into a blancmange of European statistics .
15 During the litigation orders were made for certain of the defendants ' costs to be taxed on a standard basis .
16 Held , allowing the appeal and the cross-appeal , that under the terms of the mortgage and other deeds the defendants were entitled to recover their actual costs , charges and expenses except for any costs that had not been reasonably incurred or were unreasonable in amount ; that both litigation and non-litigation costs could be referred to a taxing for quantification ; that the defendants were contractually entitled to payment on an indemnity basis as defined by R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 12(2) ; that the court 's discretion as to the basis of taxation of a mortgagee 's costs , charges and expenses should normally be exercised so as to correspond with the contractual entitlement ; and that , accordingly , the master had power to order that the contractual costs , charges and expenses and the costs incurred in the litigation be taxed on an indemnity basis including those costs ordered to be taxed on a standard basis ( post , pp. 735E–F , 736B–C , 737E–F , 739A–C , 741H — 742D , E–H ) .
17 ( 3 ) That on the taking of the said accounts and inquiry costs of and incidental to proceedings on an indemnity basis are not to be disallowed on the ground that an order has already been made for costs of and incidental to those proceedings to be taxed on a standard basis unless it should appear that in making the said order the court intended thereby to deprive the defendants of the right to add those costs or some part thereof to the mortgage security .
18 Although the enterprise flourished , Elizabeth Malleson remained convinced that adult education ought not to be organized on a single-sex basis and , after failing to persuade the Men 's College to merge , converted the Women 's College to coeducation in 1874 .
19 This sort of delegation needs to be invited on a considered basis and international consensus and not by 18 Conservatives in Darlington .
20 This sort of delegation needs to be invited on a considered basis and international consensus and not by 18 Conservatives in Darlington , ’ he said .
21 This sort of delegation needs to be invited on a considered basis and international consensus and not by 18 Conservatives in Darlington .
22 Crews in Greater Manchester are to be balloted on a 24-hour strike on December 20 , despite union appeals to maintain accident and emergency cover .
23 Elite theorists argue that most social relations are suffused with the exercise of power , even though many social conflicts and exchanges seem to be constructed on a different basis .
24 Countering this charge , engineer Didier Bayard , employed by the regional archaeology service of Picardie , stated that no Carolingian material had emerged from their surveys and that the new building was to be constructed on a seventeenth-century site .
25 This means that the personnel department can write its own reports to be run on a regular basis for supplying information to recruiters , managers and directors along the lines mentioned earlier .
26 We have to answer an er your Lordships are in danger of getting into the mood of treating this debate as a charge with a single issue to be decided on a single voter .
27 In particular , the chips used are claimed to eliminate jitter completely , enabling , the company says , a virtually unlimited number of users to be supported on a single network — it claims that 500+ users are possible .
28 The Securities and Futures Authority proposes that the first £5m of any levy on its members would continue to be raised on a weighted , registered persons basis , taking account of the amount of business conducted with private clients .
29 A statute for peasants has to be written on a single sheet of paper " .
30 To look out upon the infinite worlds of Bruno was to be lost on a shoreless sea .
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