Example sentences of "have [be] based [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their post-war policy has been based on the effort to create an enduring Franco-German axis that would maintain French power in Europe . |
| 2 | Their post-war policy has been based on the effort to create an enduring Franco-German axis that would maintain French power in Europe . |
| 3 | And that 's precisely what is so impossible to say aloud , for their entire life together ( already over twenty years of life together ) , has been based on the illusion of love , an illusion which both of them have been anxiously guarding and nurturing . |
| 4 | Frequently , the primary focus has been based on the supposed economic benefit of partnership rather than on educational — or learning — outcomes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although the emphasis of policy changes with different governments , British merger policy has been based on the cost-benefit approach , although there are free market approach overtones . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | In fact , a large proportion of American cinema has been based on the ‘ optioning ’ of best sellers , in an endless , sleazy scramble for respectable cash . |
| 10 | Research which has suggested that there has been an increase in voluntary early retirement has been based on the responses of financially secure early retirees ( see , for example , Heidbreder 1972 ; McGoldrick and Cooper 1980 ) . |
| 11 | A prime argument has been based on the culture of Africa to which wheat and grape are foreign . |
| 12 | In the past the case has been based on the wish to delay in unstimulated life it home or admission to a training centre . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | However , we now have a chance to remove the fear from the minds of women that for too long the attitude to rape has been based on the unspoken belief that , in the end , no woman will refuse the sexual advances of a dominant man and that ‘ No ’ , whatever the circumstances in which it is said , is simply a ‘ tease ’ and that women never mean it . |
| 17 | Your premium of £ has been based on the information shown in the policy schedule and any options you have chosen . |
| 18 | Your premium of £ has been based on the information shown in the policy schedule and any options you have chosen . |
| 19 | Your premium of £ has been based on the information shown in the policy schedule and any options you have chosen . |
| 20 | Your premium of £ has been based on the information shown in the policy schedule and any options you have chosen . |
| 21 | Your premium of £ has been based on the information shown in the policy schedule and any options you have chosen . |
| 22 | Your premium of £ has been based on the information shown in the policy schedule and any options you have chosen . |
| 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 a safe place . |
| 25 | The number of rebate staff within each team has been based on the following : |
| 26 | South Africa 's social and political structure has been based on the policy of racial segregation ( apartheid ) ; under the Constitution of 1984 , there is a tricameral Parliament , with a House of Assembly ( 178 members ) elected by whites , a House of Representatives ( 85 members ) elected by people of mixed race ( " Coloureds " ) , and a House of Delegates ( 45 members ) elected by Indians , but no representation for the majority black population . |
| 27 | Thrombolytic therapy has been based on the premise that dissolution of the fibrin component of a thrombus is necessary and sufficient for recanalisation . |
| 28 | It 's not the first time a lifeboat has been based in the bay . |
| 29 | Further work on the transfer of CAD data between work units and independent sites has been based around the idea that it is necessary to transfer all stored entities . |
| 30 | Conversely , because very little substantive empirical work has been based upon the Marxist model , it is not clear from a relatively small-scale study such as that by Sankoff and Laberge whether it offers a potentially more insightful way of analysing variation . |