Example sentences of "base on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is based on the agreed belief that a regular count of several basic demographic factors is vital for an understanding of the structure of our society , and at each census it is customary to ask certain specific questions which deal with current matters of special importance . |
| 2 | But it is parallel with the grammatical rules , and is based on the repetitive routines of initiated persons in the society under description . |
| 3 | At best it provides us with a partial and intensely partisan perspective because it is keenly committed to the view from the top — to the view of those who are more in control than controlled , and who are , therefore , centrally concerned to secure political stability and sustain a particular pattern of economic relations based on the economic order of capitalism and the free market . |
| 4 | He suggested that there should be a new relationship with the rest of Canada based on the economic interdependence of Quebec with Ontario and a common system of currency and taxation . |
| 5 | His choreography is firmly based on the authentic folk and flamenco dances he studied in Spain . |
| 6 | The Assam government had filed a suit in the Supreme Court arguing that its boundary with Nagaland should be based on the 1925 boundaries of the then Naga Hills district . |
| 7 | This appeared to be based on the geographical location of their offices , although the structure of the firm may also have been a factor . |
| 8 | Such a policy is clearly unlawful discrimination under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 because it differentiates between men and women , even though it is based on the unequal state pension age . |
| 9 | It is still important to see if specifying an age range could be indirect discrimination and it is important to bear in mind that differential age criteria are always likely to be direct discrimination even if it is based on the unequal state pension age . |
| 10 | The most generally accepted mechanism of evolutionary change is the modern version of Darwinian natural selection , based on the simple propositions that ( a ) like begets like , though with minor , essentially chance , variations ; ( b ) all organisms are capable of producing more offspring than actually can survive to maturity and reproduce in their turn ; ( c ) those offspring that do survive to reproduce must in some way be variants that are better adapted to their environment than those that fail ; and ( d ) those favoured variants are likely to reproduce the favourable variation in their own offspring . |
| 11 | Yes , competitive tendering is based on the simple proposition that health service managers are trained to manage health care institutions , not laundries or cleaning forces . |
| 12 | It is based on the simple proposition of self-defence : if you are verbally attacked , you are entitled to strike back with some vehemence to defend your reputation . |
| 13 | Based on the simple concept of maintaining balance in a bridge , it managed this without being intrinsically sensitive to loudspeaker load impedance variations . |
| 14 | It 'll probably be based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol . |
| 15 | The practice then was based on the Poor Law 's philosophy of restricting or stopping altogether contact between children in public or voluntary care and their parents because , it was argued , the latter were a bad influence on the children ( Checkland and Checkland , 1974 ) . |
| 16 | As its name implies , the m-derived section is based on the constant-k section with which is cascaded and it is customary to refer to the undeveloped constant-k section as the prototype . |
| 17 | The purely linear progression through the text based on the successive identification of lexies is a major contribution to the maintaining of the text 's plurality . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , estimates of W based on the visible stars and galaxies were , at the time , much lower : around W=0.01 . |
| 19 | The important point here , however , is that , while Hodder stresses that the example he gives is ‘ idealized ’ and that the interest charge is often based on the undepreciated investment balance , he shows that imputed interest does enter the investment decision-making process of many Japanese companies . |
| 20 | The word processor also has a couple of bonus features — a thesaurus and spell checker based on the concise versions from Harper Collins . |
| 21 | Franklin 's latest product is the Electronic Encyclopaedia , based on the Concise Columbia Encyclopaedia . |
| 22 | Essentially his proposals were a rationalisation of existing insurance schemes , based on the time-honoured principle of contributions from employee , employer and the State . |
| 23 | It seems to be based on the implicit assumption that women who reject dieting and respond to their bodies ' hunger can have no role to play in their own , or anybody else 's , fantasies . |
| 24 | Both the theory and the methodology are based on the implicit assumption that the communicative experience of white middle class males is prototypical … the experience of women , other ethnic groups and classes are treated as deviations … |
| 25 | Public authority is ultimately based on the moral duty which individuals owe their fellow humans . |
| 26 | Thus from a very narrow and restricted expression there has been drawn a very wide and unrestricted principle , all based on the assumed purpose of Parliament and the perceived absurdity of seeking to effect it by the language in which Parliament actually chose to express it . |
| 27 | The most important social division ran between a dominant class based on the legal ownership of industrial and commercial capital ( and sometimes having little to do with either management or labour ) and a population most of which worked for wages . |
| 28 | Gradually the concept of a new integrated market based on the planned development of resources in the British Empire as a whole took place , as Mosley borrowed and integrated Joseph Chamberlain 's imperial ideas and Rothermere and Beaverbrook 's British Empire development schemes into his plan . |
| 29 | There would be special forces , based on the current Ranger Battalions and Green Berets , trained to rescue hostages and conduct counter-terrorist operations . |
| 30 | Based on the current structure , however , this low p K a can be attributed instead to the positive dipole moment at the N terminus of the α -A helix as His15 N-caps the α -A helix and the side chains of His15 and Arg17 are far apart . |