Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] base on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the coterminous Borough and Parliamentary Constituency of Blyth Valley , the old Labour hegemony based on the coal field has been seriously threatened by the emergence of an Alliance challenge . |
| 2 | Even more gripping than this documentary feature is Apted 's fictional movie based on the same incident , Thunderheart , a tight , concentrated political drama which the director got off the ground thanks to the backing of Robert De Niro . |
| 3 | His first notable success came in 1924 with Beau Geste , another story based on the French Foreign Legion , which , but for its clever opening , soon became outmoded . |
| 4 | The letter of 5 June 1992 from the Clerk of the House of Commons starts by saying , ‘ My attention has been drawn to the fact that the House of Lords may be asked to hear argument in this case based on the meaning or significance of words spoken during proceedings on a Bill in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 5 | This may be a perfectly sensible decision based on the fact that one partner snores , or one sleeps poorly and wants to read or listen to the radio without disturbing the other . |
| 6 | Council members condemned plans to make universities bid for public money based on the number of students they expected to teach . |
| 7 | In terms of policy , Heads of Departments have been instructed to produce detailed guidance based on the principles contained in the Regional Council 's policy document to be issued to all groups of employees within the Department concerned . |
| 8 | Gokbilgin reproduces a for Mehmed II's complex based on the Fatih mosque in Istanbul for the year 1 Dhu " l-Ka'da 894 to the last day of Shawwal 895 ( 26 September 1489 to 15 September 1490 ) from which it is clear that Molla Arab was both muderris at the Sahn and Multi during that year ; while in a document published by Barkan , a conflation of two statements of income and expenditure for the of Murad II in Edirne , written in Rajab 896/May-June 1491 and covering the years mid-893 to mid-895 , one finds a reference to one " Mevlana Isa Halife , [ the ] Sufi , one of the disciples of Mevlana Arab , mufti " . |
| 9 | In doing their analysis Greer/Rhoades ( 1977 ) used an index of marked concentration based on the number of firms in the sector . |
| 10 | They are a necessary product of every social formation based on the division of labour , and the advance of capitalism involves a major expansion in their numbers . |
| 11 | The UN University commissioned modelling work on the interaction between food and energy , and this work based on the SARUM global model was completed in 1984 . |
| 12 | Phylogenetic tree based on the coxI protein from various eukaryotes . |
| 13 | Sentences with subjects having definite referents , such as ( 80 ) , assert the definite referent 's having performed the infinitival event based on the fact that perception of this event took place , and , as stated above , this means that the definite referent 's having performed this action must be significant enough to be stated as a fact ( known through the perceptual event having taken place ) . |
| 14 | SHARE prices weakened sharply after a sound start based on the overnight strength of Wall Street and the FT-SE 100-Share Index swung through nearly 40 points . |
| 15 | A practical English grammar based on the system just described is Scott , Bowley , Brockett , Brown & Goddard ( 1968 ) . |
| 16 | MY LORD JOHN by Georgette Heyer Arrow , £4.99 AT THE time of her death , Georgette Heyer was working on a large-scale historical sequence based on the character of John , Duke of Bedford , third son of Henry IV , and known to us primarily as the goody-goody prince of Shakespeare 's Henry IV . |
| 17 | The car has also become a huge hit with millions of visitors to the world-famous Universal Studios in Florida , where it now features as a popular ride based on the Spielberg films . |
| 18 | The President must offer the three main party leaders in turn a three-day mandate to try to form another government based on the present parliament . |
| 19 | Traditional oral forms of communication , which played a central role in the maintenance of social and political order — ensuring continuity and reinforcing values and norms of behaviour — was gradually confronted by a quite different form based on the new technology of print and , generally , on a foreign language . |
| 20 | Another import from Jamaica was Rastafarianism , which was a mystical cult based on the accession of Haille Selassie to the throne of Ethiopia and concerning the downfall of the white colonial races ( Babylon ) . |
| 21 | Professional and social English based on the story of a large multi-national takeover . |
| 22 | Maybe by the t I mean so my lecturing style was I I geared if you like towards a more , you go off and do some reading based on the following topics and I agree with you , that was too vague given the the fact you 're not psychologists . |
| 23 | We shall consider ( i ) what each might tell us about first impressions and ( ii ) the utility of social psychology based on the transformation of common sense into scientific knowledge compared with a psychology based in common sense and experience . |
| 24 | The triumph of a new ruling class goes together with the eventual emergence of a whole new social structure based on the new mode of production . |
| 25 | It is likely that most electronic publishing based on the Special Collections of the British Library will be undertaken in partnership with other publishers , despite the fact that the Library is now a successful small-to-medium sized publisher in its own right . |
| 26 | Here , he reiterated the British position based on the new White paper with ‘ bluntness ’ ; he told Berle he was not prepared to discuss routes , but could discuss the principles of a civil aviation convention and the equitable division of traffic . |
| 27 | The strangest feature about the early triumphs of liberalism at Cadiz is the absence of any consistent conservative opposition to the enactments of a political philosophy based on the constituent powers of the sovereign people . |
| 28 | The decision , which was officially taken for administrative reasons , was widely considered to have been taken in order to reduce the Cardinal 's strong socially progressive influence based on the doctrine of " liberation theology " . |
| 29 | A lithospheric component based on the probable low Os content of low-melt-fraction magmas such as kimberlite or lamproite is , however , broadly consistent with the new data , and can support the large proportions ( up to 50% ) of lithospheric component inferred from Nd isotope and elemental data for the most incompatible-element-enriched picrite basalts . |
| 30 | a proprietor can avoid the ordinary liability based on the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher if he can show that the water had escaped without his negligence . |