Example sentences of "[being] based [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two most ambitious of these projects , the Shire Hall in Warwick ( 1754–8 ) and Hagley Hall , Worcestershire ( 1754–60 ) , are in a competent if conventional classical manner , the latter being based on the Palladian Houghton Hall , Norfolk ; but most of his work continued to be in the Gothic style with which he had made his reputation . |
| 2 | The judges examined both the evidence of witnesses and written documentation , the procedure being based on the Roman civil procedure . |
| 3 | December 13 , 1956 : Dear Bunny , There are some delightful , first-rate pieces in your book , such as the one about your father and the first of the two about the Jews , but I am as always distressed by your conception of Russian history , which is all wrong , being based on the stale Bolshevist propaganda which you imbibed in your youth . |
| 4 | Attlee 's Labour Party had broken out of the ghetto of solidly working-class support , its 1945 victory being based on the electoral sympathy of a broad section of the middle class . |
| 5 | It is possible to make computer models that simulate many of these changes in shape , the model being based on the asymmetric contraction of microfilaments . |
| 6 | Julia Kristeva and Gilles Deleuze both reject the Aristotelian logic of the excluded middle which they see as being based on the subject-predicate structure of the sentence . |
| 7 | What I have in mind are portfolios or fascicles of data and tasks representing modules of enquiry which deal with issues of current pedagogic concern in a format which , being based on the pragmatic model that I have proposed , draws the teacher into the appraisal and application of ideas . |
| 8 | my Lord this is er , mason , and the claim of course being based upon the certain |