Example sentences of "[pron] is based [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A variation on quota sampling is the " judgement " sample , which is based on objective proportions within industrial markets . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Which is based on historical data but |
| 14 | … 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Dale Group which is based at New Houghton near Mansfield specializes in the design and installation of hydraulic mining systems . |
| 18 | The main emphasis of the charity department , which is based at 9 Clarendon Street , is to deal with disability benefit queries . |
| 19 | The third group is a mixed bag of smaller companies , including some distributors , such as Miramax , and some talent-based producers , such as Imagine ( which is based around one director , Ron Howard ) . |
| 20 | But science itself is based on Christian teaching . |
| 21 | If it is based on average capital costs , it favours short-term projects and those with large initial cash receipts against long-term projects . |
| 22 | It is based on personal computer architecture , and can be directly attached to the local network in a client-server architecture . |
| 23 | Apart from being well written and a pleasure to read the overall feeling of this book is that the Author has a great deal of enthusiasm and knowledge about his subject , and it is based on personal experience . |
| 24 | They say the survey is inaccurate because it is based on incorrect figures that the Prime Minister gave to parliament this year . |
| 25 | It is based on real people , genuine exhibits and historical facts . |
| 26 | We should also note that it is based on certain assumptions , for example it is assumed that those who have some reason to form a pressure group will , in an open society , do so , and that the degree of governmental response will depend on the degree of pressure the group is able to exert , and that this is directly related to the group 's importance to the community . |
| 27 | Much of this belief is soundly based in experience but part of it is based on wishful thinking . |
| 28 | It is based on small firms . |
| 29 | Again , the theory of this is straightforward ; it is based on standard probability theory , such as is widely used in other disciplines , notably in the biological sciences , where the sampling of a population is an accepted way of establishing the variety of species in a given area . |
| 30 | Like all good innovations , it is based on pure simplicity and offers the opportunity to cook in an oven chamber using pressureless steam , dry heat or a combination of the two . |