Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] [prep] the basis " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was felt to be important that these main classes should be selected on the basis of a theory or set of principles . |
| 2 | Whether or not to select a model with sloping sides or vertical ones should be made on the basis of the types of crops you intend to grow . |
| 3 | However , decisions should be made on the basis of a structured analysis of candidates ' qualities . |
| 4 | The decision of whether to prescribe an antidepressant should be made on the basis of whether the patient shows ‘ biological ’ features of depression which predict a good response ( e.g. early morning wakening , diurnal mood variation , and weight loss due to impaired appetite ) ; whether , in the case of severe depression , one can afford to wait for the delayed response of an antidepressant ; and the extent to which environmental factors seem largely to explain the symptoms . |
| 5 | Can not the right hon. Gentleman accept that the Para battalions should have been the last to be cut , and that , if cuts must be made , they should be made on the basis of operational effectiveness , not political expediency ? |
| 6 | [ That this House regrets the Government 's failure to deal with the imminent threat of wholesale breaches of the law on Sunday trading ; expresses concern that Ministers appear to be running away from their responsibility to uphold the law as soon as one or more large commercial organisations express their intention to ignore the law ; greatly regrets the way that this situation puts pressure on responsible and law-abiding retailers to open on Sundays simply to protect their market share ; further regrets the damage that is likely to be done to small shops and family businesses as a consequence ; considers that sensible progress to modernising the law should be made on the basis of the REST proposals put forward by Keep Sunday Special ; and calls on the Government actively to pursue the regulation of Sunday trading in a way which deals fairly with employees , their families and with community and commercial interests . ] |
| 7 | Nor is it unknown for agreements to provide that payments should be made on the basis of book values , avoiding the expense of revaluation and leaving the benefits of capital appreciation to the continuing partners . |
| 8 | For example , the analysis indicated that domestic staff should be deployed on the basis of information about the cleaning areas of rooms in the establishment , but deployment was actually based on the experience of the officers , tempered by such considerations as staff availability and custom and practice . |
| 9 | The lump sum of damages should be assessed on the basis that it would be invested with the aim of obtaining some capital appreciation to offset the probable rise in the cost of living . |
| 10 | Informal groups should be organized on the basis of free self-expression if they are to be most helpful . |
| 11 | Ideally the MIS should be operated on the basis of ‘ management by exception ’ , ie it should enable managers to delegate confidently in the sure knowledge that significant variances in actual performance compared with standard performance will be highlighted in timely fashion by the system . |
| 12 | Mr Smith blamed local authorities for changing the formulae by which budgets were calculated and blamed the Government for capping council spending and insisting that schools should be funded on the basis of the local average of teachers ' salaries rather than the actual salaries they paid . |
| 13 | When the brief is being prepared , a cost plan should be developed on the basis of assumptions used in the project appraisal . |
| 14 | I think it better to say that they should be answered on the basis of the general discussion of the issues in this opinion . |
| 15 | ‘ It should be done on the basis of the right of non-smokers to breathe smoke-free air , but wherever possible taking account of the needs of those who smoke . ’ |
| 16 | The claim should be settled on the basis of the cost of re-covering the damaged item , e.g. the armchair . |
| 17 | In Georgia , where the referendum was held at the same time as elections for local councils , voters were asked : " Do you agree that the state independence of Georgia should be restored on the basis of the independence act of May 26 , 1918 ? " |
| 18 | Before the elections Beron had maintained that the MRF should be banned on the basis that it was a militarized organization founded on an ethnic basis ( and therefore not allowed to contest the election ) . |
| 19 | Application forms ( or c.v.s if application forms are not available ) should be used as the basis for the candidate 's interview . |
| 20 | The Department of Health is also keen that this formula should be used as the basis for sub-regional distribution . |
| 21 | Under the chairmanship of Prince Norodom Sihanouk , the SNC agreed that UN-supervised regional elections in Cambodia 's 20 provinces should be held on the basis of proportional representation . |
| 22 | Instead , the Party prof professionals decided that the campaign should be fought on the basis of what they called themes . |
| 23 | A figure for the ratio of seeks required per access should be specified on the basis of the design criteria used , and the file should be reorganized when this figure is exceeded . |
| 24 | Priorities regarding the degree of urgency of an appointment must be decided on the basis of the information received in the referral letter . |
| 25 | The extent of the obligation to state the reasons on which a legislative measure is based is not defined once and for all but must be determined on the basis of the particular facts of each case . |
| 26 | In principle , the allocation must be made on the basis of relative priority . |
| 27 | All design decisions must be made on the basis of understanding two factors — the audience and the message . |
| 28 | Do you think that all policy must be established on the basis of worst case scenarios ? |
| 29 | Moore 's way of putting it might be defended on the basis of a realist view of universals for which individual horses are horses because they participate in a universal object horse , and do so in virtue of the fact that they have parts participating in universal objects which are parts of the universal object horse and related to each other in ways which participate in the universal relations linking part to whole in the universal object . |
| 30 | That control might be exercised on the basis of considerations of sovereignty ; some countries in the civil law tradition see service of process as an act of State , an exercise of its judicial power , and are reluctant to permit within their borders an expression of the sovereignty of another State ; in Switzerland service on behalf of the plaintiff of foreign process without the permission of the Swiss authorities appears to be an offence punishable by imprisonment ( and even , theoretically , solitary confinement and hard labour ) 11 . |