Example sentences of "base [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November 1989 it was announced that the Falkland Islands Company ( now owned by Anglo United , a UK-based mining and fuel distribution group which had taken over Coalite , the Falkland Islands Company 's existing owner , in August 1989 ) would be appointing a chief executive who would be based for the first time on the islands themselves . |
| 2 | The Spanish candidacy is being supported by Turin , one of the six cities in which the six seeds will be based for the first round . |
| 3 | There will be six major TV spectaculars in the run-up to the contest , and A special camera unit will be based with the Irish team to bring fans the inside stories . |
| 4 | The government offensive against Karen rebels based along the Thai border escalated during March . |
| 5 | The typical organization of early society was based upon the patriarchal family . |
| 6 | Ineichen ( 1987 ) suggests that future projections be based upon the forward projection of two rates : 1 per cent of those aged 65 — 74 and 10 per cent of those aged 75 + . |
| 7 | In the circumstances of this case , although it might be otherwise if , for example , a contemnor was sentenced in his absence , the grounds of appeal are based upon the purest technicality . |
| 8 | It is entirely based upon the fraudulent suggestion that , if we did not support agriculture , the prices now obtaining in the world at large would be our prices . |
| 9 | This conclusion was based upon the general perception that pre-1939 aviation was overly competitive and unregulated , and subject to vicious throat-cutting in the national interest . |
| 10 | The validity of the LIT is based upon the existing research which supports imitation as an index of a child 's knowledge of grammar and the high correlations obtained when scores on the LIT were compared with other measures of language production . |
| 11 | The standard applied here is objective , based upon the reasonable man in the seller 's position ignoring any peculiar idiosyncrasies of the buyer . |
| 12 | Some historians remain sceptical about this , while others are convinced that it does , and that an early form of military organisation was based upon the herred system ; that it appears in southern Norway and Västergötland in Sweden too has led to the contention that it was introduced there in Viking times , perhaps by Swegen or Cnut . |
| 13 | In those societies where the third estate was initially weak — and during its subsequent development in the nineteenth century became more clearly divided into distinct classes — the bourgeoisie , already threatened by the labour movement , embraced a more conservative type of nationalism , and the creation of a modern nation state based upon the capitalist mode of production was accomplished in a more authoritarian fashion by what has been called a ‘ revolution from above ’ ( Moore , 1967 ) . |
| 14 | Finally , the common law contained areas of tortious liability for interference with family and service relationships which were based upon the archaic idea that a man had a proprietary interest in the services of his family and his servants . |
| 15 | Findings which are replicated throughout a number of countries , or which can be shown to vary under specified conditions , become much more powerful since ‘ an explanatory theory of industrial relations can not be based upon the narrow range of industrial relations processes observable in one , or even a few , countries ’ ( Walker , 1967 , p. 108 ) . |
| 16 | With its finances balanced precariously , with Ministry restrictions on the appointment of tutor-organisers and the withdrawal of some of the university 's resident tutors , it had to rely heavily on voluntary effort — and no-one who reads the branch or Federation literature of this period can fail to be moved by the zealous commitment of ordinary WEA members , a commitment based upon the sheer love of learning and an earnest desire to offer something worthwhile to society . |
| 17 | Both the Schools Council and Nuffield approaches shared in most of the projects they supported an essentially instrumental view in that they were based upon the managerial assumption that the initiators determined the content and progress of the programme ( although Arts and the Adolescent ( Schools Council , 1975 ) was a notable exception ) . |
| 18 | Indeed , it would damage that person 's recovery if he or she could be " fixed " ; the recovery would be insecure and might be based upon the fragile integrity and perception of one counsellor . |
| 19 | In 1294 when the king demanded a half of their incomes from the clergy , a half based upon the revised valuation of 1291 , Canterbury was vacant , and York and Durham were occupied by royal servants . |
| 20 | Curves of constant breadth can be irregular ; however the simplest are based upon the equilateral triangle , the regular pentagon and septagon . |
| 21 | It frequently arises that an item is considered beyond economical repair based upon the second hand value and not the replacement value . |
| 22 | Lauterpacht argued that there is a legal , although imperfect , right of international transit based upon the essential nature of global communications . |
| 23 | Rowntree tried to devise an objective definition of poverty based upon the minimum income required to maintain individuals in a state of ‘ physical efficiency ’ . |
| 24 | This uncertainty argument in favour of fixed exchange rates is based upon the apparent instability of capital flows . |
| 25 | Most farm workers over the age of forty have witnessed the disappearance of a predominantly horse-and-hand technology and its replacement by one based upon the internal combustion engine . |
| 26 | Depending on how it is achieved , natural language indexing based upon the full text of a document may be very detailed ; alternatively , it may establish some mechanism for deciding which terms are the most important in relation to a particular document . |
| 27 | IBM also announced its AIX Distributed Computing Environment products , based upon the Open Software Foundation 's DCE technology . |
| 28 | A distributed computing profile will follow next year , based upon the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment technology that X/Open recently endorsed . |
| 29 | This omission , which now seems curious , was based upon the conventional notion of the organism as respondent . |
| 30 | Nursing care based upon the nursing process is being widely implemented in the United Kingdom , and one of the main skills that nurses need to develop is the ability to be able to communicate effectively with the patient and his family , in order to be able to define the patient 's problems . |