Example sentences of "base [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | One or two mornings a week we sail upwind to another beach , basing ourselves on a campsite taverna for the day , and once a fortnight we take a day off . |
| 2 | Morgan , whom Engels followed , was once again basing himself on his studies of the Iroquois . |
| 3 | Therefore , basing himself on Marx , Bukharin rejected the idea that there can be no general overproduction ; instead he argued that there is a causal relationship between the various branches of production which offer each other markets for their respective goods . |
| 4 | But it is often assumed that so doing is to be following in the footsteps of Marx , when he gave his example of luxury goods production , basing himself on the premise that the sub-department lib produced only goods for capitalist consumption . |
| 5 | Basing himself on authority from the United States , La Forest J. concluded that any other rule would at best be inefficient , and at worst could lead to financial chaos : see pp. 194–197 . |
| 6 | In January 1990 a Human Rights League was set up , basing itself on the League for Human Rights established in 1922 and banned by the Nazis in 1933 . |
| 7 | Furthermore , any movement basing itself on one man , with an ideology of systematic hostility to parliamentary politics and of vocal nationalism , was bound to be classified on the extreme right . |
| 8 | You would , I know , be the first to agree that , if the critics base themselves on fact and eschew the attractions of hindsight , such criticism is valuable . |
| 9 | Logocentrism is the term he uses to describe all forms of thought which base themselves on some external point of reference , such as the notion of truth . |
| 10 | ‘ Basing myself on long experience of Churchill over the India Bill , I decided to disregard what he said and go straight ahead . ’ |
| 11 | It simply did not , and does not , offer a framework on which to hang a convincing story … the geographer , when he analyses the material properties of the man-environment systems , must base himself on the central functions of that system , rather than on the traditional divisions of physical geography . |
| 12 | Whereas the left might base itself on the thoughts of Karl Marx , the libertarians look back to Adam Smith and an extreme ideology of laissez-faire capitalism . |
| 13 | We never based ourselves on them but we just developed that way . |
| 14 | I played a real opera singer from the nineteenth century , Nadena Burokhof and I based myself on her . |
| 15 | Doolittle has based himself on what seems a pellucidly consequential and intelligently written play by Rex Deverell ( also the librettist ) ; and though the piece is offered as ‘ best suited … to alternative audiences ’ , it cuts an oddly respectable figure in the modestly louche surroundings of Chapter . |
| 16 | It has turned its back on the elitism of many consumer organisations and has based itself on a democratic structure in which the voluntary efforts of the members determine policy and action . |
| 17 | The psychoanalytical school , almost by definition has based itself on supra-historical assumptions which have been almost valueless in detailed analyses . |
| 18 | So I 've never based myself on any of that , because it 's really just a myth , ’ says Neneh . |
| 19 | But it , it , it is an issue that , that , that does seem to base itself on an as and where basis . |
| 20 | The first is the sub-genre that bases itself on events in the past that are perhaps not quite yet history . |
| 21 | A book on composition bases itself on the assumption that the reader is already familiar with conventional harmonic principles . |