Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] base on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the coterminous Borough and Parliamentary Constituency of Blyth Valley , the old Labour hegemony based on the coal field has been seriously threatened by the emergence of an Alliance challenge . |
| 2 | Even more gripping than this documentary feature is Apted 's fictional movie based on the same incident , Thunderheart , a tight , concentrated political drama which the director got off the ground thanks to the backing of Robert De Niro . |
| 3 | This may be a perfectly sensible decision based on the fact that one partner snores , or one sleeps poorly and wants to read or listen to the radio without disturbing the other . |
| 4 | Council members condemned plans to make universities bid for public money based on the number of students they expected to teach . |
| 5 | In terms of policy , Heads of Departments have been instructed to produce detailed guidance based on the principles contained in the Regional Council 's policy document to be issued to all groups of employees within the Department concerned . |
| 6 | In doing their analysis Greer/Rhoades ( 1977 ) used an index of marked concentration based on the number of firms in the sector . |
| 7 | They are a necessary product of every social formation based on the division of labour , and the advance of capitalism involves a major expansion in their numbers . |
| 8 | Phylogenetic tree based on the coxI protein from various eukaryotes . |
| 9 | Sentences with subjects having definite referents , such as ( 80 ) , assert the definite referent 's having performed the infinitival event based on the fact that perception of this event took place , and , as stated above , this means that the definite referent 's having performed this action must be significant enough to be stated as a fact ( known through the perceptual event having taken place ) . |
| 10 | SHARE prices weakened sharply after a sound start based on the overnight strength of Wall Street and the FT-SE 100-Share Index swung through nearly 40 points . |
| 11 | A practical English grammar based on the system just described is Scott , Bowley , Brockett , Brown & Goddard ( 1968 ) . |
| 12 | MY LORD JOHN by Georgette Heyer Arrow , £4.99 AT THE time of her death , Georgette Heyer was working on a large-scale historical sequence based on the character of John , Duke of Bedford , third son of Henry IV , and known to us primarily as the goody-goody prince of Shakespeare 's Henry IV . |
| 13 | The car has also become a huge hit with millions of visitors to the world-famous Universal Studios in Florida , where it now features as a popular ride based on the Spielberg films . |
| 14 | Traditional oral forms of communication , which played a central role in the maintenance of social and political order — ensuring continuity and reinforcing values and norms of behaviour — was gradually confronted by a quite different form based on the new technology of print and , generally , on a foreign language . |
| 15 | Another import from Jamaica was Rastafarianism , which was a mystical cult based on the accession of Haille Selassie to the throne of Ethiopia and concerning the downfall of the white colonial races ( Babylon ) . |
| 16 | Professional and social English based on the story of a large multi-national takeover . |
| 17 | We shall consider ( i ) what each might tell us about first impressions and ( ii ) the utility of social psychology based on the transformation of common sense into scientific knowledge compared with a psychology based in common sense and experience . |
| 18 | The triumph of a new ruling class goes together with the eventual emergence of a whole new social structure based on the new mode of production . |
| 19 | It is likely that most electronic publishing based on the Special Collections of the British Library will be undertaken in partnership with other publishers , despite the fact that the Library is now a successful small-to-medium sized publisher in its own right . |
| 20 | Here , he reiterated the British position based on the new White paper with ‘ bluntness ’ ; he told Berle he was not prepared to discuss routes , but could discuss the principles of a civil aviation convention and the equitable division of traffic . |
| 21 | The strangest feature about the early triumphs of liberalism at Cadiz is the absence of any consistent conservative opposition to the enactments of a political philosophy based on the constituent powers of the sovereign people . |
| 22 | The decision , which was officially taken for administrative reasons , was widely considered to have been taken in order to reduce the Cardinal 's strong socially progressive influence based on the doctrine of " liberation theology " . |
| 23 | A lithospheric component based on the probable low Os content of low-melt-fraction magmas such as kimberlite or lamproite is , however , broadly consistent with the new data , and can support the large proportions ( up to 50% ) of lithospheric component inferred from Nd isotope and elemental data for the most incompatible-element-enriched picrite basalts . |
| 24 | a proprietor can avoid the ordinary liability based on the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher if he can show that the water had escaped without his negligence . |
| 25 | The Little Dry Thorn , another biblical play based on the story of Abraham and Sarah , published posthumously in Plays ( 1953 ) , received its first public performance in Glasgow in 1946 . |
| 26 | ‘ Both voters and candidates in the coming parliamentary elections in Jordan shoulder a grave responsibility and should therefore seek a true democratic rule based on the tenets of the constitution , avoiding rashness and extremism . ’ |
| 27 | The Board and Committee share a Joint Secretariat based on the WJEC , the Welsh Office and the Welsh Counties Committee . |
| 28 | If the mentalist position can be coherently presented at all , then , it seems , it is only in the context of an idealist ontology based on the assumption that reality as a whole is non-physical . |
| 29 | In the political sphere also it is possible to detect a parallel crisis developing in respect of orthodox democratic theory based on the conventional model of representative democracy , For one thing the traditional mechanisms of political control and accountability exercised through parliament have been rendered increasingly ineffective by the ascending power of the executive . |
| 30 | This simple game based on the Prisoner 's Dilemma does seem to capture something of the problem of the arms race in real life . |