Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the basis of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This rationality it came to see as the basis of a universal culture ; the justification for its claim to define universal values , to define its values as universal . |
| 2 | Observation of one of these signs — cyclical changes in cervical mucus — has been developed as the basis of a method capable of anticipating ovulation . |
| 3 | It is said to be the philosophy of government administrators , dangerous in their hands , corrupting treated as the basis of private morality . |
| 4 | His main argument was that Gothic , having been used for nineteenth-century churches , should now be considered as the basis of all building types , particularly domestic , although commercial and public buildings were considered . |
| 5 | Like Orwell , women 's relationship to miners starts from the basis of exclusion and mystery , but women live with the drama and danger of the pits , they live their solidarity with the pitmen . |
| 6 | These components are interpreted in social terms after the analysis by considering the social characteristics of the speakers who have been sorted on the basis of their linguistic behaviour into the two groups ( periphery and core ) which emerge in Figure 6.1 . |
| 7 | Czechoslovak Prime Minister Marian Calfa declared on Feb. 5 that work would recommence on the basis of the so-called " C " scheme , which envisaged the diversion of Danube waters . |
| 8 | But whether Idealism helped Liberalism and the ‘ New ’ Liberals to speak and act on the basis of a more dynamic and conceptually successful social theory , or whether , to quote Michael Freeden , ‘ Rather than Idealism giving birth to a new version of liberalism , it was liberalism that was able to assimilate certain aspects of Idealism to its mainstream and thus bestow new meaning upon Idealist tenets ’ , is not a problem of immediate relevance here . |
| 9 | The line of argument depends upon two principal features : ( a ) there is a need to produce an oven justification for practices which might be criticized and this justification must explain racial discrimination in terms of anything other than irrational preferences ; ( b ) the discourse implies that irrational preference would be morally bad and the good intentions of the speaker , and those whom the speaker justifies , are guaranteed if they are shown to differ from those who might act on the basis of irrational prejudices . |
| 10 | The constable need not have witnessed the conduct in question before he utters his warning ; he could act on the basis of a report that he received from a person who has been caused harassment , alarm or distress , or on the report of somebody who has witnessed it . |
| 11 | It involves making judgements about how people will and should behave on the basis of gender stereotypes believed to be determined by their sex . |
| 12 | A development of Banfield 's explanation is provided by Johan Galtung on the basis of his own research in a similar environment . |
| 13 | But its policies have never been attacked on the basis of her leadership . |
| 14 | This geological evidence raises the question whether any plants survived the entire last glacial stage ( ca. 125,000–13,500 B.P. ) in the Outer Hebrides , as Heslop Harrison ( 1948b , 1953 ) and Dahl ( 1954 , 1955 ) proposed on the basis of present-day distribution patterns . |
| 15 | Would you sa you know on the basis of erm your contact with , with tenants erm in terms of living in flats , are , are there any good points that people have made about living there t I mean |
| 16 | The accumulated rights , earned on the basis of Peru 's performance under its IMF-monitored adjustment programme , would then be encashed as the first disbursement under a successor IMF-supported programme . |
| 17 | For example , agricultural production might be organised on the basis of the master-slave relationship , as in Ancient Rome or in the southern states of the USA , or based on the lord serf relationship , as in feudal Europe , or on the capitalist-proletarian relationship , as in modern Western societies . |
| 18 | The sentence may occur in speech as a borrowing from the syntax of writing , but speech , typically , is organised on the basis of clausal complexes which are not sentences . |
| 19 | Carzo and Yanouzas suggested that if work is organised on the basis of small groups or project teams ( therefore narrow spans of control and a tall organisation structure ) group members would be able to plan their work in an orderly manner , encourage participation by all group members in decision-making and monitor the consequences of their decisions better , so that their performance will be more efficient than the work of groups in a flat structure with a wide span of control . |
| 20 | Shiftworking employees are organised on the basis of ‘ time of day ’ . |
| 21 | This table indicates that graduates who entered their degree courses with an HNC , on average , performed as well as those who entered on the basis of 10 A-level points , and so on for the other qualifications listed . |
| 22 | The Daily Telegraph computer program compares each poll 's current findings with the 1987 election results , and calculates how many seats each party would win on the basis of a uniform national swing applied equally to every constituency ( leaving out those in Northern Ireland ) . |
| 23 | A trust can not be claimed on the basis of the words ‘ See that you look after the fields , and so it will come about that my son may give you your sons . ’ |
| 24 | Certain Western journalists claimed on the basis of Soviet sources that ‘ Moscow would much prefer a negotiated settlement which would involve the ‘ Finlandisation ’ of Afghanistan along neutral lines ' to a large increase in Soviet troops deployed in Afghanistan . |
| 25 | For perchlorate , it appears that at least in aqueous solution a symmetrically-hydrated ion is formed , as only a single ν 3 bands is seen ; for other oxyanions , however , distortions attributed to hydrogen-bond formation have been claimed on the basis of splittings of ν 3 bands . |
| 26 | Amnesty International , barred from visiting India since 1984 , claimed on the basis of information obtained from sources in the local press and human rights organizations that the country 's legal system , free press and civil liberties bodies were powerless to curb widespread and " routine " police torture . |
| 27 | As Lincoln and McBride ( 1987 : 304 ) suggest on the basis of their extensive survey of the research literature , a ‘ particularly perplexing but strong and consistent finding from numerous work attitude surveys is the low level of job satisfaction reported by the Japanese ’ . |
| 28 | [ History ] is not rigorous because it always proceeds by faults and corrections , because it is not in any way a universal schema but a unique adventure that unfolds on the basis of prehistoric circumstances which constitute in themselves , and in relation to all the objectives and all the practices , a heavy and badly understood legacy of fundamental deviations . |
| 29 | A valuer who knows what he is doing will value on the basis of one key criterion : available future cash flow . |
| 30 | If the plaintiff can not establish that the breach of duty was a material contributory cause of his damage , could the question be approached on the basis of loss of chance ? |