Example sentences of "[vb pp] largely on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defeat of the Labour Party for the second time in 1983 had been blamed largely on the media campaign which had glorified the Falklands , hammered Foot , and unleashed a campaign of unprecedented vitriol against Livingstone 's GLC and the ‘ Loony Left ’ . |
| 2 | The first trial under the Witchcraft Act of 1563 was held in Chelmsford in 1566 , when Agnes Waterhouse was hanged largely on the evidence of a small child . |
| 3 | Other exposures such as the Swindon affair and the irregular payment to Graham Roberts have depended largely on the Press or dissident club officials . |
| 4 | It might even mean that the personnel records and salaries systems could be cost justified largely on the basis of savings in the recruitment area . |
| 5 | He gave the impression that the agents were to a large extent out of DK 's strict control and that the agents were policed largely on the basis of responding to complaints and taking remedial action where appropriate or possible . |
| 6 | In Moabit there had already been some traffic management in the past , but this had relied largely on the use of one-way streets . |
| 7 | Merrell Down Pharmaceuticals , have relied largely on the testimony of expert witnesses , some of whom have reached conclusions by analogy rather than direct experiment . |
| 8 | The first version comprises a repository based on Programming Common Tools Environment technology from GIE Emeraude , Louveciennes , and the Neutral Information Model ( NIM ) , which in turn is based largely on the Exchange repository interfacing technology from Software One Ltd , Marlow , UK . |
| 9 | The first version comprises a repository based on Portable Common Tools Environment technology from GIE Emeraude , Louveciennes , and the Neutral Information Model , which in turn is based largely on the Exchange repository interfacing technology from Software One Ltd , Marlow , UK It also includes a control integration system based on IBM Corp 's SDE WorkBench/6000 , which is derived from Hewlett-Packard Co 's SoftBench . |
| 10 | Total quality management ( TQM ) is an approach to management based largely on the works of Crosby ( 1979 ) and Deming ( 1982 ) . |
| 11 | Study of the distribution of the British population has to be based largely on the census , an amazingly rich and flexible source of data but capable of providing us with only occasional , if regular , views of what is happening . |
| 12 | He argued that the international monetary system , based largely on the dollar , contained certain inherent contradictions . |
| 13 | The SOC is based largely on the Framework for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements , published by the International Accounting Standards Committee , and it implements several of the recommendations made in the UK publications The Future Shape of Financial Reports and Making Corporate Reports Valuable . |
| 14 | This project will , through a study based largely on the Yarborough papers at the Lincolnshire Archives Office , analyse the strategies adopted to develop and maintain the estate . |
| 15 | He took advantage of the noisy arrival of Auguste 's staff to beat a judicious retreat , as Auguste hurled imprecations after him , based largely on the fate that would await him should the goose come to any harm as a result of his incursions into the chef 's sovereign territory . |
| 16 | In a similar way the French crown was able to make good use of the experience of such men , the Valois intervention in Castile in the mid-1360s , under the leadership of du Guesclin ( who understood their mentality well ) , being based largely on the services of these mercenaries . |
| 17 | ‘ The Space study required for the national curriculum is based largely on the library , and we have built up the tasks together , with an emphasis on group work , ’ said a head of science . |
| 18 | Trade had increased considerably and security on the borrowing was based largely on the Dock rates . |
| 19 | Various provisions of the Education Reform Act 1988 ( ERA ) , particularly those relating to LMS ( under which a school 's funding is based largely on the numbers and ages of its pupils ) and more open enrolment , are aimed at creating a climate of heightened competition between schools for pupils , and the present study will be conducted within this new context . |
| 20 | At present , only general guidelines to management can be provided , based largely on the characteristics of the behaviour which have been described . |
| 21 | This practice is based largely on the belief that intravenous heparin increases coronary artery patency rates . |
| 22 | As the years passed , a rabbi from the New York yeshiva was imported to instruct the Reichmanns ' children in a rigorous six-day schedule of studies based largely on the Talmud . |
| 23 | Her prophetic framework was based largely on the writings of Thomas Brightman [ q.v. ] and John Archer ; she expected the conversion and restoration of the Jews in 1656 , and the full establishment of Christ 's kingdom by 1701 . |
| 24 | His judgment was based largely on the fortunes of the Fox-North coalition of 1783 , which Lord Blake has called ‘ the first coalition of any significance in British political history ’ and which died ‘ unhonoured and unwept ’ after only 10 months . |
| 25 | Though the areas with organized cattle stealing ranged from some of the least to most prosperous in Sri Lanka , they had in common an economy based largely on the production of rice and other grains for local consumption . |
| 26 | The historical significance of the SI is not questioned , and the importance of the movement is asserted largely on the basis of aesthetic innovations which derive from the Lettrist period prior to the founding of the SI . |
| 27 | The problem is that the early lists of historic buildings were done at such a pace that they had to be assessed largely on the basis of their exteriors . |
| 28 | Since the second world war , US foreign policy has rested largely on the identification of ‘ goodies ’ and ‘ baddies ’ , in the context of global superpower . |
| 29 | The 1991 election was fought largely on the issue of tax reform , with Pálsson 's Independence Party favouring a general reduction of rates of taxation which Hermannsson 's Progressive Party dismissed as " irresponsible " . |
| 30 | … in-service training is often much less effective than it could be because it is based on an ‘ educational model ’ i.e. is focussed largely on the individual . |