Example sentences of "[pron] [be] based [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 These researches and others like them are based on innumerable hours of field study in remote places .
2 It arose because of my meeting George Wigg in the army , whom I had encountered when I was based at Southern Command headquarters and he was at the same headquarters as a Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of army education , where he had already established a reputation for ruthless eccentricity .
3 The mainframe is linked to detection boxes developed by Granada , which are based at each customer 's site .
4 The development of science and education has done something similar in the development of mankind , and is more successful than religions in providing real gains in the external world , because its image of the external world is more accurate than those which are based on religious notions .
5 It has to be possible to produce spontaneously original sentences which are based on implicit rules which allow generalisation .
6 The table also shows ‘ interim ’ target casualty totals for 1991 by age group which are based on straight line reductions of one third between 1986 and 2000 .
7 Workplace learning and assessment will become increasingly more important as SVQs , which are based on occupational competence , gradually gain ground .
8 Finally , inequalities of power and prestige benefit all members of society since they serve to further collective goals which are based on shared values .
9 British experts are likely to dispute these calculations which are based on mathematical models that attempt to extrapolate likely human cancers from laboratory studies .
10 The ‘ Chelsea Diagnostic Mathematics Tests ’ ( Hart et al. , 1984 ) , which are based on this research , were designed to measure pupils ' levels of understanding and identify particular errors which each of them make .
11 The Reverend W.Audry says many of the episodes lack the authenticity of the books , which were based on real incidents on the railways.Richard Barnett reports :
12 In this he followed Attaingnant , who had from his earliest days been printing gaillardes et pavanes for four instruments ( 1529 ) , basses danses garnies de recoupes for the lute ( 1529 ) , basses dances , branles , pavennes and gaillardes , nearly all in four instrumental parts ( 1530 ) , and gaillardes pavennes , branles et basses dances for keyboard ( 1531 ) , at least some of which were based on polyphonic chansons .
13 When the scheme was introduced there was speculation about whether those intending to become fundholders would increase referral rates in the preparatory year to ensure that their budgets , which were based on historical activity , were large enough to permit savings in subsequent years .
14 New metal industries also appeared which were based on scientific research , but the most revolutionary result of the marriage of science and technology was the spread of electricity .
15 As an alternative home-conditioning treatment for dull , tired tresses , Henara 's famous Henna Treatment Wax , which is based on pure henna extracts and proteins , remains one of the most efficient and popular hair nourishing and polishing creams .
16 Awards are made in the form of grants , the level of which is based on financial need , and all matriculated students are eligible for application .
17 The bid and the general shift in mood against diversification highlights a fundamental problem which faces a company which is based on one product with limited growth prospects .
18 The bedrock aspirations these educators have had in common , as far as early childhood educational opportunities are concerned , are expressed in a recently published book which is based on contemporary research and which shows the continuing aspiration for a comprehensive preschool service :
19 The Scotch Whisky Association ( SWA ) Employment Census , which is based on individual company returns , shows that 15,310 people were directly employed by the industry at end 1991 .
20 Whether the unit utilises a staff deployment system which is based on internal rotation or a separate night staffing , there will he an established shift system .
21 Beyond that it will have authority regarding other issues which is based on other considerations , such as superior expertise , economy of effort , immunity from temptations and blackmail .
22 As Family Development Nurses , we are still working within a system which is based on uniform structures and procedures which may not allow for the flexibility of approach , or the necessary degree of autonomy which is needed , to be always relevant to the needs of each individual or family .
23 At the centre of each is a new division of labour , a new structure of the labour process , which is based on technical innovations , especially computerization .
24 Though Banfield 's research is partially accurate if read merely as description , it does not explain fully the lack of concerted action by those excluded from privilege , and it is at least misleading , if not inaccurate , in its neglect of the pre-modern political organisation of these areas , which is based on personal patronage networks centred on landholders .
25 A variation on quota sampling is the " judgement " sample , which is based on objective proportions within industrial markets .
26 A related issue , because it is concerned with the protection of members ' interests , was the implementation of Government regulations covering the protection of members in bulk transfer situations which is based on actuarial certificates .
27 Which is based on historical data but
28 … we want to create a socialist society which is based on three principles : equality and respect for human dignity ; sharing resources which are produced by our efforts ; work by everyone . ’
29 We have analysed the influence of a combined index ( the Newcastle prescribing index ) , which is based on patient age and sex , on the prescribing of general practitioners in two family health services authorities and evaluated its usefulness as a notional indicator of costs and items .
30 Many times , Labour Members have pointed out the iniquities of the standard spending assessment , which is based on irrelevant data more than 10 years old .
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