Example sentences of "[adv] have [be] based [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1983/4 , estimates of the numbers of lone-parent families seem consistently and wrongly to have been based upon early tabulations from the 1981 Census , which identified 414 298 households in Great Britain containing one or more children aged under 16 living with only one adult . |
| 2 | In their view the Commission were giving Article 100A an unduly wide construction and were using it for proposals which should properly have been based on some alternative Article of the EEC Treaty , such as Article 100 or Article 235 , which required unanimity in the Council . |
| 3 | Not only is Hardwick House the the environment for Kenneth Graham 's imagination , Toad himself may well have been based on one of the old inhabitants . |
| 4 | It is not hard to imagine Nietzsche adding passages of this modest length in the final weeks , especially if he had continued to work on the " whole last part of the book during the summer ; any late additions would then have been based on that work . |
| 5 | The Secretary of State 's worries about the control of Soviet nuclear weapons , given the potential breakdown of the Soviet Union , would not then have been based on such mind-boggling perceived dangers . |