Example sentences of "were the basis " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leading principles of prize law were settled by Lord Stowell during the Napoleonic wars ; and they were the basis of the prize law which was applied in the 1914–18 and 1939–45 wars . |
| 2 | Headteachers were central to this school management process : making day-to-day decisions , advising the LEA ( both officers and councillors ) , motivating their staff , supervising the administration and organisation within the school and ensuring that educational priorities were the basis of this management process . |
| 3 | His crimes were the basis for The Silence Of The Lambs , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Psycho . |
| 4 | The lack of these features in Mannheim 's project were the basis for Merton suggesting that the American variant was better ( Merton 1957 : 446–9 ) . |
| 5 | These archives were the basis for acquisitions which now rank Berlin as one of the world 's foremost centres for research in humanities . |
| 6 | Cropper 's implication that in this way God 's concerns became a man 's own and , potentially , were the basis for activism in the world , indicates the difficulty of reading the language of quietism in a purely passive way . |
| 7 | Written on stone tablets , preserved in the ark of the covenant , the ten " words " were the basis of Israel 's law . |
| 8 | For this study , when tests of mothers ' serum were the basis for referral the type of tests used were ascertained . |
| 9 | They were the basis of the first textbook on chemical engineering which Davis published in 1901 . |
| 10 | The smallest volumes , usually between 1 and 10 m 2 on the surface , were the basis for mapping units , or polypedon , which contain more than one pedon . |