Example sentences of "[be] base on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Typically , they tend to be based on American-made cars from the 1930s and 1940s .
2 it must be based on predetermined standards of performance based on the job being performed
3 I have always considered drama training to be based on simple precepts , for acting is not a complicated art .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 To twentieth century man the operation of these laws appears to be based on necessary events of great cruelty .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Indeed the type of ceremonial gift exchange to which we have referred seems to be based on egalitarian notions of reciprocity and sharing .
10 The proposed psychology was , however , to be based on neurological findings .
11 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 .
12 Or the authority may direct that the final decision must be based on economic considerations only , thus replacing all but the economic factors .
13 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 .
14 This practice should be based on proven principles , acceptable to all , and not on routine and ritual .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Furthermore , the Court held that the direction that the mistake must , to exculpate , be based on reasonable grounds had been overtaken by later developments .
19 They will be based on existing units devised by centres for HNCs and HNDs in areas like building , quantity surveying , and architectural technology .
20 Whilst cost budgets may be based on internal standards , they may depend on the sales volume of the business activity .
21 Gorbachev also endorsed the comments of the Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin , who stated on Sept. 5 that Soviet-Cuban relations had to be " de-ideologized " and , from now on , had to be based on free-trade terms rather than on previous military or political dogmas .
22 This may be used at a variety of levels of sophistication and economic generality , thus : 5.3 i ) Models at company level may be based on econometric equations for instance to analyse the relationship between price and demand , perhaps using the model .
23 It could be argued , therefore , that good education ought always to be based on multi-cultural principles .
24 Until recently , he complains , theories of literacy have tended to be based on instructional techniques rather than linguistic theory : research on reading has been dominated by experimental psychology , with the kinds of results we saw above ( Chapter 1 ) .
25 Initially , the view in the United States was that the refusal had to be based on good grounds — for example , religious beliefs strongly held — but the position now is moving towards the idea that ‘ individual freedom here is guaranteed only if people are given the right to make choices which would generally be regarded as foolish ones ’ .
26 It is one thing to provide ( as in section 6(3) ( b ) ) that in the absence of special arrangements parental preferences is to prevail over a desire to keep places vacant on , for example , religious grounds : it is quite another to say that when some parental preferences are to be denied in any event as must be the case under section 6(3) ( a ) ) the choice of those parental preferences which are to prevail and those which are to be defeated should not be based on religious criteria .
27 For this to be effective each transmitter-receiver system needs to be based on varied signals or there is great confusion and you become unable to tell which ferret is where .
28 Clusters may be based on geographical variables such as : county , city , district or parish boundaries .
29 Again there is no guidance as to how to choose between the four categories , and no acknowledgement that such choices will be based on political perceptions of where in the organizations a group 's interests will be best protected .
30 In addition such strategical decisions may be based on episodic memories for particular instances of driving the planned route , for example , the memory that you encountered road works at a particular junction recently and that it should thus be avoided until they have been completed .
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