Example sentences of "[prep] [art] ad [no cls] basis " in BNC.

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1 For a later trial lower and upper points were chosen on the ad hoc basis that ‘ an approximation to the subject was visible ’ ( though interfered with by black areas at the lower exposure and white areas at the upper end ) .
2 Other African communities , such as the Lozi on the Barotse floodplain in western Zambia , and , on a smaller scale the Yoruba in western Nigeria , maintained livestock herds which were essentially secondary to their crop production , providing manure for crops on an ad hoc basis .
3 He was doing a bit of odd work here and there on an ad hoc basis , not musical work .
4 The WEA fully supported these developments which had earlier occurred on an ad hoc basis in universities .
5 In five of the six companies it was found that the planning department could be involved in special projects on an ad hoc basis .
6 More detailed information can be obtained on an ad hoc basis .
7 In the past few years the appeal system has been successfully used to overcome the resistance of reluctant local authorities , and development has tended to proceed on an ad hoc basis with new centres sited where developers can acquire land easily rather than on the basis of any strategic plan .
8 Other courses have developed on an ad hoc basis to meet the learning requirements of trained nurses .
9 BBC programmes will no longer be sold on an ad hoc basis .
10 From then on the family would continue to take lodgers to help supplement its income , but very much on an ad hoc basis and on an altogether more modest scale .
11 ISDN also provides high quality , fast transmission which ca n't be achieved using an ordinary modem connection the usual way to date to exchange computer data on an ad hoc basis .
12 Discussions deal with the co-ordination of activities and the settlement of operational problems on an ad hoc basis .
13 Thoughts on women and politics generally tended to emerge on an ad hoc basis as a by-product of empirical studies into voting behaviour and political participation carried out in the 1950s and 60s .
14 Silvestri 's role will be to bring focus to a task that Sun has previously handled only on an ad hoc basis .
15 Indeed , scores of battalions had already been formed from ethnic minorities on an ad hoc basis by German formations in the field , and by late 1943 the total would exceed 400,000 men .
16 The pollution standards in a consent are defined locally by each water authority and are specific in application , with each consent negotiated on an ad hoc basis .
17 The broken arrows represent relationships whereby information can be requested , but on an ad hoc basis .
18 Our later fieldwork showed three variants of curriculum enhancement ( discussed in more detail in Chapter 3 ) : shared delivery of the whole curriculum ( the use of specialist expertise across the school in pursuit of whole-school curriculum policies ) , curriculum intensification ( support for specific groups of children in particular areas of the curriculum ) and curriculum invigoration ( meeting the subject needs of particular teachers on an ad hoc basis ) .
19 Mr. Wakeham : The Refreshment Department retains the services of a qualified nutritional adviser on an ad hoc basis , whose fees are paid from the trading account .
20 These are : that they remain as at present , organized and administered on an ad hoc basis ; that responsibility for them be given to the CNAA ; that they become the responsibility of TEC ; that they become the responsibility of a joint CNAA/TEC body to be set up ; and that a new and independent validating body be established specifically for foundation courses .
21 The audit needs to be carried out on a periodic rather than on an ad hoc basis , and , like any other rational evaluation , needs to be conducted in a systematic way .
22 The result has been that within the legal framework , policies have been chosen on an ad hoc basis .
23 This argued that micromanagement of spending projects had developed on an ad hoc basis , and was failing to provide enough information for a detailed analysis of the efficiency with which resources were being used in existing programmes and policy options .
24 On a more pragmatic , but related , issue , students were finding it harder to ‘ pass ’ inference skills IN 1–3 , than IN 4–6 , and since this had important implications for their grading , I was attempting to remediate the early skills on an ad hoc basis with some non-subject-specific pencil and paper exercises .
25 On an ad hoc basis , the Community is already feeling its way towards such common policies .
26 Nothing in these Guidelines is intended to prevent two Network members from reaching mutual agreement , on an ad hoc basis , for the application of a different set of protocols to govern their relationship in a particular transaction .
27 New arrangements are being negotiated at present , under which we will pay for call-outs on an ad hoc basis .
28 Hitherto NATO 's naval presence in the Mediterranean had only been on an ad hoc basis .
29 Relating these principles to Figures 11.1 and 11.2 , it will be seen that they comprise , despite the problems already encountered in describing them on an ad hoc basis , only a small number of variants .
30 Most of the debate between the CNAA and the CDP concerned ‘ self-validation ’ , the CNAA 's role , progress towards autonomy or some particular aspect of the relationship between the CNAA and the polytechnics — and the discussions were on an ad hoc basis .
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