Example sentences of "be made [prep] the basis " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not to select a model with sloping sides or vertical ones should be made on the basis of the types of crops you intend to grow . |
| 2 | Too much expenditure is involved for decisions to be made on the basis of the influence or favour of suppliers ' representatives . |
| 3 | In principle , the allocation must be made on the basis of relative priority . |
| 4 | However , decisions should be made on the basis of a structured analysis of candidates ' qualities . |
| 5 | The decision of whether to prescribe an antidepressant should be made on the basis of whether the patient shows ‘ biological ’ features of depression which predict a good response ( e.g. early morning wakening , diurnal mood variation , and weight loss due to impaired appetite ) ; whether , in the case of severe depression , one can afford to wait for the delayed response of an antidepressant ; and the extent to which environmental factors seem largely to explain the symptoms . |
| 6 | Quite apart from questions of competition policy , takeovers themselves must be the subject of rules , to ensure that investment decisions can be made on the basis of transparent markets and reliable information . |
| 7 | This calculation will be made on the basis of a broadly equivalent comparable house , that is , one which would broadly provide the same accommodation , due allowance being made for the location , for example , urban versus rural and which is in a location of broadly equivalent quality . |
| 8 | Sometimes a case will be made on the basis of what is known to happen abroad for the actual transfer or importation into a country of particular industrial relations methods or techniques . |
| 9 | They doubted whether valid measures of all of the areas of development could be devised ; they maintained that the tests used would have a distorting and trivializing effect on pupils ' learning ( 'this year 's test becomes next year 's curriculum' ) : they pointed to the possibility , notwithstanding the assurances that light sampling techniques would be deployed , that superficial comparisons would be made on the basis of inadequate evidence between areas and between schools ; and they detected in the paraphernalia of mass testing associated with the APU the most sinister intrusion of central government into the work of the schools and the spectre of state-controlled curricula . |
| 10 | The task was to repeat the words " double , double , double " over and over again , and it was used on the assumption that , while vocalising , judgements about words would not be made on the basis of their phonological codes . |
| 11 | Suppose a judgement about reaching criterion performance had to be made on the basis of the results of the tests used in the consistency experiment described above , what would be the decision for individual pupils ? |
| 12 | Once the crew for each boat is selected — a choice that will be made on the basis of strength , ability and leadership qualities — everyone will be given the opportunity of specialising in certain areas of maintenance . |
| 13 | While the ideology is appropriate , it enables choices to be made on the basis of far less analysis and with much greater urgency , which certainly seems to be a move in the right direction , even if the choice made is not always the best one in the circumstances . |
| 14 | Can not the right hon. Gentleman accept that the Para battalions should have been the last to be cut , and that , if cuts must be made , they should be made on the basis of operational effectiveness , not political expediency ? |
| 15 | [ That this House regrets the Government 's failure to deal with the imminent threat of wholesale breaches of the law on Sunday trading ; expresses concern that Ministers appear to be running away from their responsibility to uphold the law as soon as one or more large commercial organisations express their intention to ignore the law ; greatly regrets the way that this situation puts pressure on responsible and law-abiding retailers to open on Sundays simply to protect their market share ; further regrets the damage that is likely to be done to small shops and family businesses as a consequence ; considers that sensible progress to modernising the law should be made on the basis of the REST proposals put forward by Keep Sunday Special ; and calls on the Government actively to pursue the regulation of Sunday trading in a way which deals fairly with employees , their families and with community and commercial interests . ] |
| 16 | Those arrangements do not preclude education authority representatives either being appointed initially by the Secretary of State or subsequently by boards , but I stress that appointments will be made on the basis of personal qualities . |
| 17 | Basil Bayne , WPSA Education and Careers committee , said : ‘ The offer will be made on the basis of a 1,500 world essay on ‘ Possible Developments in the production and marketing of poultry in Europe by the year 2000 ’ and the competition is open to anyone born after September 1 , 1969 . ’ |
| 18 | The defendant , a Greek bank of the private sector , had announced a public open competition for hiring of male and female employees , specifying that appointments would be made on the basis of separate lists of successful candidates , according to sex and marks obtained . |
| 19 | Thus a precise estimate of the average height of adult males in this country can be made on the basis of a representative sample of the total population of adult males . |
| 20 | The depreciation allocation to each year may be made on the basis of time or service using one of a variety of methods ( for example , straight line , units of production , sum of the years ' digits , reducing balance ) which are described in most standard accounting texts . |
| 21 | The differentiation between patients with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome and those with omeprazole treatment for reflux oesophagitis can not be made on the basis of the pepsinogen A:C ratio , although a low ratio may suggest treatment with omeprazole and a pepsinogen A:C ratio greater than 4.7 Zollinger-Ellison syndrome . |
| 22 | Although changes in global policy can not be made on the basis of the present study alone , the results suggest that a supplemental dose of IPV or OPV administered at the time of measles vaccination might increase a population 's immunity against poliovirus types 1 and 3 . |
| 23 | It also means that the real value of the redemption payment will vary according to the rate of inflation during the last eight months ' life of a bond and so calculations of real yields to redemption can only be made on the basis of assumed rates of inflation . |
| 24 | Nor is it unknown for agreements to provide that payments should be made on the basis of book values , avoiding the expense of revaluation and leaving the benefits of capital appreciation to the continuing partners . |
| 25 | All design decisions must be made on the basis of understanding two factors — the audience and the message . |
| 26 | This implication will be made upon the basis that Parliament is not to be presumed to take away parties ' rights without giving them an opportunity of being heard in their interest . |