Example sentences of "are make [prep] the basis " in BNC.

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1 If budget allocations for regions and districts are made on the basis of continuing existing spending patterns , this need will be overlooked , as most authorities do not have adequate provision for post-hospital care for elderly people .
2 A spokeswoman for the bank said : ‘ You have to remember that the rankings are made on the basis of value of bids , which are all down to BAT .
3 We need to check whether our decisions are made on the basis of making our resources available to others and sharing theirs wherever possible before we strike out independently .
4 Decisions are made on the basis of evidence , but they may be reversed .
5 The suggestions that are made on the basis of the analysis may not suit everyone 's palate .
6 If managerial decisions are made on the basis of some logic implicit in the technology itself , or in its cost structure , then forecasts can be made with some confidence .
7 In his approach , selection of neighbourhoods from a lexicon for search are made on the basis of gross visual similarity .
8 Hard cases test the ‘ rules of recognition ’ and , in the absence of explicit guidance , impossible for every contingency , judgements are made on the basis of prevailing feelings about ‘ justice or fairness or some other dimension of morality ’ ( 1977 : 22 ) .
9 These assertions are made on the basis of research in modern ethology , and the arguments will not be discussed in any detail as they belong to a different universe of discourse from that of psychoanalysis and sociology .
10 Thus , the results are very impressive : there is obviously a regular pattern in them , and as they are accountable to observed data , they are much more persuasive than categorical statements about language that are made on the basis of introspection alone .
11 The main decisions about manufacturing processes are made on the basis of shape , operations to be performed and batch size .
12 In particular , we have seen how the law can structure the decision-making process by insisting that decisions are made on the basis of a proper appreciation of the facts and by persons who are appropriately qualified .
13 There are certainly a number of obvious difficulties which need to be acknowledged ; first of all , some groups are extremely small , and where divisions are made on the basis of two speaker variables ( such as social class and sex ) it may seem a little unreal to label the persons who fall into one of the resulting categories as something along the lines of ‘ the upper-middle-class female group ’ .
14 If , however , adjustments are made on the basis of political bargaining within the officer and councillor structure , the consequences of external pressure on budgets may be unpredictable and result neither in overall cuts in spending nor in the hoped for shifts between budget heads .
15 The assessments of these probabilities are made on the basis of what is known about the additional research , or the consultant , in relation to the unknowns in the project ( Moore and Thomas , 1979 ) .
16 The assessments of these probabilities are made on the basis of what is known about the additional research , or the consultant , in relation to the unknowns in the project ( Moore and Thomas , 1979 ) .
17 Interviews play no part in the selection procedure for the majority of the faculties at Edinburgh ; decisions are made on the basis of the information submitted on the UCAS form .
18 ‘ All appointments like this are made on the basis of aptitude and merit , ’ a spokesman said .
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