Example sentences of "a [noun sg] base on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words are then assigned a rating based on the probability of the grammatical transitions that their tags participate in . |
| 2 | Later it announced that it would catch 296 minke whales this year — a level based on the recommendations of the IWC scientific committee and regarded as inadequate by many Norwegian whalers . |
| 3 | So where does a curriculum based on the children 's own interests start now , I asked myself . |
| 4 | In previous years the British Independent Programme Producers Association had taken a stand and we were initially distressed to find that this was not to be the case in 1990 — a decision based on the exorbitant cost ( they will retain a stand at MIP-TV ) . |
| 5 | His terms of reference were to design a building based on the Cathedral of the Dormition in Vladimir and which would be structurally sound . |
| 6 | This can be compensated for by applying a correction based on the knowledge of the appropriate Mark-Houwink relations for each , the standard and the unknown , measured in the solvent used for elution . |
| 7 | He bought back as many as possible of those that his father had sold , and added a few more ; in 1971 he published a useful short account of the history of the collection , together with a handlist based on the latest critical opinion ; and he designed , and had woven in Spain , a carpet for the gallery , a room seventy-two feet long , with a pattern repeating the intricate stucco-work of the ceiling . |
| 8 | Very briefly , I would 've preferred to have seen a contract based on the end performance with the grass being cut to a structured length . |
| 9 | These include a checklist based on the outline of a Norwegian study in 1983 , and a checklist forming part of a UNESCO study in 1986 . |
| 10 | I will be looking for a technique based on the recreational values of safety , economy of effort and enjoyment . |
| 11 | His water-colours acquired an increasingly remote and sometimes visionary quality , deriving in part from the delicacy of texture and colour which he achieved through a technique based on the miniaturist 's use of hatching and stippling , developed to an extraordinary degree of refinement . |
| 12 | We subsequently applied a technique based on the polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) to detect herpes B virus DNA in cerebrospinal fluid ( CSF ) . |
| 13 | Unless we explain in terms of a framework based on the idea of the motions of material body , we are left with ‘ uncertain conjecture ’ . |
| 14 | Altofts is an outlier of Normanton , a settlement based on the canal trade . |
| 15 | The oldest tradition , which goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe , claims that the queen and her Protestant councillors had intended to introduce a settlement based on the 1552 Prayer Book , but were later forced to make some concessions in the Catholic direction because of the implacable opposition of the bishops and some of the lay peers in the House of Lords . |
| 16 | ‘ It comes down to applying a judgement based on the background knowledge we 've acquired from 30 years of monitoring and reporting human rights ’ . |
| 17 | Until recently , the major division between living things was seen as being between animals and plants — a division based on the way the organism acquires energy . |
| 18 | Hannah Vincent , a young playwright , will write a play based on the group 's workshops , and it will be performed throughout Westminster , Brent and North Kensington . |
| 19 | The report points out that , in order for those on low incomes to be able to afford a rent based on the capital value of the property , the proposal for the creation of a housing allowance would be a pre-requisite . |
| 20 | Parents who have read this book and find themselves in agreement with the concept of a religion based on the Created God will realise that ritual has no part in it . |
| 21 | The embodiment of light is masculine , that of the dark is feminine , and thus a religion based on the former will tend to be served by priests , and one based on the latter by priestesses . |
| 22 | Woolgar , in a study based on the growth and development of pulsar research in astronomy , contends that scientific discovery can best be portrayed in terms of a process with an indefinite beginning and end . |
| 23 | Julian Schnabel , whose work shows in Glimcher 's gallery , has written a screenplay based on the life of the late graffiti artist and Warhol protégé , Jean-Michel Basquiat . |
| 24 | For instance a glissando based on the chord of the ‘ added 6th ’ might be desired , such as the following : |
| 25 | The Ti'Ko 486 range starts with the PT425SX at £999 — a machine based on the 486SX processor . |
| 26 | Thus , using a plural in a continuation based on the verb + with conditions , where we might expect some sort of strain , does indeed produce a reliably higher number of continuations using both . |
| 27 | As a consequence , the government starts out with a legitimacy based on the will of the people . |
| 28 | These features isolate the user from the technicalities of the computer and encourage a dialogue based on the user 's judgements rather than imposing the hardware engineer 's or computer programmer 's discipline on the user . |
| 29 | A report by an internal party committee set up to review Labour 's failure in elections in November 1988 , which had been presented to the central committee on May 27 , strongly criticised Peres for running a campaign based on the cult of his own personality . |
| 30 | Although other schemes are possible , we concluded that a grouping based on the language modes — speaking , listening , reading and writing — would be most appropriate and practicable . |