Example sentences of "[be] based on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such statements may be based on strong conviction and close observation , and may even be felt to be self-evident , but they appear to have no empirical status — are merely , we might say , guesses — unless supported by frequency data . |
| 2 | Typically , they tend to be based on American-made cars from the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 3 | The idea is that tax , payable annually in arrears , would be based on taxable expenditure , which is the difference between net receipts during the year and net savings over the same period . |
| 4 | Awards should be based on continuous assessment of course work as well as on a final external examination . |
| 5 | You would n't want the management of patients to be based on anecdotal evidence , would you , with all its distortions ? |
| 6 | it must be based on predetermined standards of performance based on the job being performed |
| 7 | The study will be based on 213 life history interviews with up to three generations of 100 families selected on the basis of a national random sample . |
| 8 | Mistrust of a solicitor had to be based on tangible fact , and could not simply reflect a suspicion of the profession in general . |
| 9 | The new treaty contained no military commitments , specifying that in future relations would be based on international law and the accords of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) . |
| 10 | I have always considered drama training to be based on simple precepts , for acting is not a complicated art . |
| 11 | If not , then your sum insured should be based on current replacement costs less an allowance for wear and tear — giving a sum insured of perhaps two thirds of the replacement cost depending on the average age of your possessions . |
| 12 | The rent should be based on one quarter from the 1989 payment and three quarters from 1990 but as there is no change in the rent over the two years the expense is the same . |
| 13 | Chomsky states that grammar must be based on two things : observation of language ability to satisfy the native speaker 's intuition about his language For example , it must be able to account for the native speaker 's intuition that active or passive sentences are related to each other ; that some pairs of sentences , though alike on the surface , are different at a deeper level . |
| 14 | Even when the discriminations of the zoologists began to be based on systematic classification rather than fantasy the criteria that were used to distinguish man from non-man remained very uncertain . |
| 15 | The more sociological aspects of psychoanalytic theory appear now to be based on firmer foundations , for the theory of the development of the person can be seen to be grounded in the therapeutic encounters of psychoanalysis . |
| 16 | To twentieth century man the operation of these laws appears to be based on necessary events of great cruelty . |
| 17 | Such a strategy should be based on 5 principles : a positive diagnosis , consideration of the patient 's agenda , critical appraisal of drugs and placebos , continuing care , and a graded therapeutic response . |
| 18 | In order to compensate for this it would be worth exploring the effects of using , say , under 65 years standardised mortality ratio for men and under 75 years standardised mortality ratio for women , which will be based on similar numbers of deaths . |
| 19 | Indeed the type of ceremonial gift exchange to which we have referred seems to be based on egalitarian notions of reciprocity and sharing . |
| 20 | The proposed psychology was , however , to be based on neurological findings . |
| 21 | The choice between these two schools of thought could not be based on rational calculations , since these two different approaches could not be tried out in war . |
| 22 | We thought that this was rather a superficial document , containing many forecasts which seemed to be based on inadequate data or questionable assumptions . |
| 23 | Or the authority may direct that the final decision must be based on economic considerations only , thus replacing all but the economic factors . |
| 24 | Additionally , Weber emphasised in his essay ‘ Class , Status and Party ’ ( see Gerth and Mills , 1948 ) that inequality in society might not be based on economic relations at all , but on prestige or on political power , mobilised through a party . |
| 25 | This new era will usher in a period of restructuring and reconciliation when South Africans ' international relationships can be based on mutual advantage and not on conditions of slave labour , bred of racism . |
| 26 | Hew was convicted on the basis of confessions he had made under torture and because he had read The Dogs of War , a novel about a coup in an imaginary country widely thought to be based on Equatorial Guinea . |
| 27 | This practice should be based on proven principles , acceptable to all , and not on routine and ritual . |
| 28 | The public consultation exercise that was part of that erm Greater York study , and quite clearly the Greater York study was not a statutory plan , it was an informal plan , but it was the only way really that progress could be made in the absence erm of adopted local plans in Greater York , it was essential that that document was pursued to give a framework for the preparation of district local plans er and the greenbelt local plan , and the resolution that followed the consultation and the long body of work , and I 'll read it out , was that the development strategy for Greater York from ninety six to two thousand and six should be based on agreed sites within and on the periphery of the built up area , and that the residual requirement be met for the development of a new settlement or settlements located beyond the outer boundary erm of the greenbelt , a quite clearly there 's a major policy implication there that a new settlement was not acceptable within the greenbelt but would have to be er outside the outer boundary of the greenbelt , and the public consultation on that er study er attracted widespread support for a new settlement strategy in Greater York , all six authorities agreed that that was the direction er that had to be taken , it also had another benefit in that it enabled work on the York greenbelt local plan erm to proceed and that has now been taken forward to the stage where the enquiry terminated in May , it 's a joint enquiry in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , with a Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry in April ninety three , and we would hope that the inspectors report on that six month enquiry , when he considered all the objections to the er greenbelt proposals of the County Council , largely supported by the er District Council will be available er in the near future . |
| 29 | Previous decisions had held that a mistake must be based on reasonable grounds if it is to excuse , a doctrine which is illogical for the reason given by Lord Hailsham . |
| 30 | In other words , mistakes must be based on reasonable grounds where the offences are serious — which would cover not only rape but also cases involving a risk of death or serious injury , such as the use of force in self-defence . |