Example sentences of "base his [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , he experimented with his second and third year lower sets , basing his syllabus on the Cockcroft Foundation list ( DES , 1982 ) and using games and other activities to try to make lessons more enjoyable . |
| 2 | In 1699 another English scientist , the anatomist Edward Tyson , basing his demonstration on the dissection of an orang-utang , made the influential pronouncement that pygmies represent " an intermediate link between Ape and Man " , 5 a proposition later adopted by both Linnaeus and Rousseau . |
| 3 | It is generally assumed first , that this ‘ ceremonial recognition of his son as king in his own lifetime was something new ’ ( although Aethelred of Mercia , for example , is said to have appointed Coenred as his heir ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 57 ) , second , that it was the first royal anointing in England ( though reservations have been expressed as to whether Ecgfrith was anointed or , if he was , whether he was the first ) , and , third , that Offa was basing his action on the recent papal consecration in 781 of the Frankish princes , Pippin and Louis , sons of Charlemagne ( though Byzantine precedents are also possible ) . |
| 4 | Alcuin , possibly basing his statement on the words of Bede ( HE 11 , 5 ) , later claimed that Eadwine subjected Saxons , Britons , Picts and Scots . |
| 5 | For example , an inductivist might take as his universal criterion the degree of inductive support a theory receives from accepted facts , whilst a falsificationist might base his criterion on the degree of falsifiability of unfalsified theories . |
| 6 | Gilbert , whose collection appeared in 1203 – 4 , based his compilation on the model of Bernard of Pavia 's Five Books . |
| 7 | In the noble eloquence of his plea for conciliation with the colonists , Burke , who based his case on the proposition that they had not been represented at Westminster , drew a strange and illogical conclusion . |
| 8 | He based his case on the EAT 's decision in Laughton v Bapp Industrial Supplies Ltd [ 1986 ] IRLR 245 , which said that an employee did not breach his duty of loyalty merely by indicating an intention to set up in competition with the employer in the future . |
| 9 | Judge Louis B. Stefan said he had based his decision on the Barnes trustees ' appeal for desperately needed funds to restore the 1924 foundation building and improve climate control . |
| 10 | The architect , a Frenchman , is said to have based his church on the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris . |
| 11 | He has based his game on the prime virtues of line and length , backed by great stamina . |
| 12 | Pike based his appeal on the contention that he had fed the horse properly but it had n't absorbed it . |
| 13 | Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest also based his judgment on the nineteenth century jurisprudence . |
| 14 | Kinsbourne initially based his suggestion on the result of an experiment he carried out using a square with a small gap in one of its sides . |
| 15 | Extensive research in a number of quite different cultures has largely corroborated this assumption and vindicated Piaget 's decision to base his theory on the detailed investigation of a relatively small number of children . |
| 16 | JR finally decided to base his report on the following outline . |
| 17 | This supposition has the form of a ‘ regulative hope ’ — both are adopted on the same basis that a card player bases his play on the hope of an improbable distribution of the cards if no other possible distribution gives him any chance of winning at all . |