Example sentences of "be based on the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For example , in the case of the West Midlands RMC , which was originally planned to have consisted of North Staffordshire and Wolverhampton Polytechnics , it is now based only on the former ; and , in contrast , the London RMC , which was originally to have been based on the Polytechnic of Central London , now encompasses five additional institutions .
2 Such attempts have usually been based on the notion that the response to a stimulus presented in , say , the left visual field , should be quicker from the left hand than from the right .
3 The DSD levies , which up to now have been based on the size of the package , are due to rise sharply in the autumn , and will be higher on the materials which have proved hardest to recycle , especially plastic .
4 Although British merger policy has lacked consistency and coherence , it has been based on the principle that mergers which are deemed to be ‘ against the public interest ’ should be prevented .
5 Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level .
6 In Tomlinson 's argument , this discrepancy between the marked growth of the dominant enterprises and the relatively static overall position as regards plant size is taken as throwing doubt on the notion that the growth of the dominant enterprises has been based on the exploitation of economies of scale .
7 The War Office had therefore designed a structure which , from its general appearance and use , looked to have been based on the idea of a boy 's Meccano .
8 The industrial paradigm has been based on the idea that the purpose of life is the satisfaction of our physical needs ( including our intellectual need to understand what is going on in the physical universe ) .
9 Estimates of the lifespan of human lymphocytes in vivo have been based on the persistence of unstable chromosomal lesions in peripheral circulating lymphocytes after radiotherapy .
10 A prime argument has been based on the culture of Africa to which wheat and grape are foreign .
11 The Prime Minister added : ‘ Every Parliamentary answer I have given or letter I despatched has been based on the position I understood it to be . ’
12 All that has gone before in this book has been based on the premise that a worshipable ‘ god ’ is not the creator of the universe , but is an entity extracted by human intelligence from the evolutionary story .
13 The sessions described here have been based on the premise that students , as receivers of teaching provision , can contribute much from their accumulated knowledge and experience — which is also informed by their values and expectations — to the staff responsible for the management , delivery and content of their courses .
14 Thrombolytic therapy has been based on the premise that dissolution of the fibrin component of a thrombus is necessary and sufficient for recanalisation .
15 The majority of attempts to gain greater insight into the organisation of the manufacture of ornamental metalwork and the meaning of the decoration have been based on the decoration itself .
16 Their post-war policy has been based on the effort to create an enduring Franco-German axis that would maintain French power in Europe .
17 Their post-war policy has been based on the effort to create an enduring Franco-German axis that would maintain French power in Europe .
18 The decision to locate an assembly plant at Kalmar was made in 1971 and seems to have been based on the need to expand the production facilities .
19 In the past the case has been based on the wish to delay in unstimulated life it home or admission to a training centre .
20 Meanwhile , of course , apparently satisfactory early relations with a mother or father may well , according to Freud , have been based on the repression of sexual urges .
21 As far as official policies are concerned , assumptions concerning integration have been based on the acceptance of white majority schools as both normal and desirable .
22 Their argument has been based on the fact that in general any specific single mutation will result in the alteration or absence of a single protein in the organism as it develops .
23 Your premium of £ has been based on the information shown in the policy schedule and any options you have chosen .
24 Your premium of £ has been based on the information shown in the policy schedule and any options you have chosen .
25 Your premium of £ has been based on the information shown in the policy schedule and any options you have chosen .
26 Your premium of £ has been based on the information shown in the policy schedule and any options you have chosen .
27 Your premium of £ has been based on the information shown in the policy schedule and any options you have chosen .
28 Your premium of £ has been based on the information shown in the policy schedule and any options you have chosen .
29 Your premium of £ has been based on the information shown in the policy schedule and any options you have chosen .
30 Your premium of £ has been based on the information shown in a safe place .
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