Example sentences of "[been] base [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN UNLIKELY winner , John Byme 's bright , affectionate ( and , as usual , part-autobiographical ) comedy may have been based on the dubious allure of flabby men playing rock 'n' roll in the '80s ( Scotland 's The Majestics , led by the formidable Robbie Coltrane ) but it provided umpteen memorable supporting characters , some genuinely touching , if wacky , romantic interludes and tons of '50s classics for the nostalgia vote . |
| 2 | However , we now have a chance to remove the fear from the minds of women that for too long the attitude to rape has been based on the unspoken belief that , in the end , no woman will refuse the sexual advances of a dominant man and that ‘ No ’ , whatever the circumstances in which it is said , is simply a ‘ tease ’ and that women never mean it . |
| 3 | Although the emphasis of policy changes with different governments , British merger policy has been based on the cost-benefit approach , although there are free market approach overtones . |
| 4 | Many novels of adventure have been based on the chivalric theme of service to women . |
| 5 | Although most descriptive grammars have been based on written documents , a few , such as that by Palmer ( 1965 ) , and that of the français fondamental , have been based on the spoken forms of the language . |
| 6 | This has not been based on the theoretical approach adopted above ; instead , it has been concerned with offering criteria to be used in practice in order to determine whether a unit should be included within the overall financial report of what they call the ‘ oversight unit . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly , therefore , most approaches have been based on the cultural dimension with the addition of ecological and occupational factors . |
| 8 | Conversely , because very little substantive empirical work has been based upon the Marxist model , it is not clear from a relatively small-scale study such as that by Sankoff and Laberge whether it offers a potentially more insightful way of analysing variation . |
| 9 | Of the 5,500 tanks possessed by Iraq at the outbreak of war , 4,200 had been based in the Kuwaiti theatre , and 3,500 of these were reported to have been destroyed or captured . |