Example sentences of "is based [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In Verbivore the focus is switched from the principles on which high technology is based to the media through which it is transmitted .
2 The Wharton table is based on a telephone poll of 300 selected dealers and suppliers representing nearly 1,000 outlets .
3 Mike 's pre-ski exercise is based on a scene from King Kong .
4 This confidence survey is conducted among UK hotel general managers and is based on a sample of almost 100 drawn from different classes , sizes and styles of hotels geographically spread across the country .
5 It is based on a sample of 1,000 probated wills from Somerset House of London residents who died in 1981 and who had one or more beneficiaries with a London address .
6 It 's run by the Fila family and is based on a purpose built centre with a 22ft ( 7m ) dive tank , a decompression chamber and lecture rooms .
7 Although it is true that he understood the distinction between a logical argument about the truth — falsity of religious propositions , and an empirical analysis of who holds which beliefs , in which groups — Freud 's explanatory theory is based on a judgement about the rationality or otherwise of religious beliefs and practices .
8 This form of analysis of performance is based on a chart , showing monetary values on the vertical axis and sales volume or production on the horizontal axis .
9 The report is based on a University of Salford research project entitled Voicing grievances and getting redress , which is a comparative study of tenants of different types of public sector landlord .
10 She points out that much of a woman 's life is based on a spontaneity of moral response that many philosophers , in particular Hegel and Kant , would say had no moral worth ( McMillan , 1982 ) .
11 This is based on a history of access to permanent pig pastures and the clinical signs .
12 The book is based on a diary which Professor Hull kept on cassette .
13 The Chairman of the erm that is already occurring , we 've had a number of reports erm already er flooding is based on a tide flap system erm so those you know we 're gon na have to live with that over the years .
14 This paper is based on a pilot survey conducted through correspondence .
15 Then the truth pours out : FM transmission is based on a scheme drawn up 40 years ago .
16 It is based on a novel by House Of Cards author Michael Dobbs .
17 This is based on a master file of regular payments being established on our computer and authorisation for payment being confirmed verbally over the telephone .
18 The project is based on a conviction that a better understanding of speech levels and hierarchy will make an important contribution to the general understanding of Japanese society , and ultimately help Westerners to look beyond the veneer of politeness in dealing effectively with their Japanese counter-parts .
19 It is based on a conviction that religious ways of interpreting reality simply must be mistaken because they appear to conflict with , or be irrelevant to , cherished and successful scientific paradigms .
20 Performed by Mecklenburgh Opera , the libretto is based on a story by the expressionist writer and artist , Bruno Schulz .
21 Foucault is critical of such a theory not just because it is based on a science/non-science distinction which for him is simply the product of a particular discursive formation which claims access to the real , rather than involving any epistemological questions of truth or objectivity , but also because it produces the notion of ideology as a secondary mediation ( as in Althusser 's interpellation ) in an inside/outside structure between the determinants of power and the individual subject .
22 The ideology which gives substance to this culture is based on a twin belief in the uniqueness of the magisterial role itself , and also the uniqueness of each individual case .
23 If the outbound leg is based on a DME distance , the outbound leg ends at the DME limited distance ( fig 53a ) .
24 Much of the church 's teaching is based on a concept that implies the need to live ‘ holy ’ lives in this world , without expecting reward or recognition for it but anticipating that the afterlife will reflect something of the quality of this earthly life .
25 Construction is based on a circuit panel made from a piece of 0.1″ matrix stripboard , size 16 strips x 50 holes .
26 Campbell 's contribution in this book , by arguing the case for an ‘ ethical positivism ’ , is based on a variation of this traditional assumption .
27 This case study by Davies and Ellison ( 1987 ) is based on a survey of all the secondary schools in Cheshire to elicit comments on their practice of capitation distribution .
28 The report , compiled by NUPE , NALGO and COHSE , which are forming the new union UNISON , is based on a survey of 1,200 local authority home helps in England , Scotland , and Wales .
29 Part A of the interim report is based on a survey of the initial destinations of 1984 Information Technology Advanced Course students as they completed their courses .
30 This report is based on a survey which was carried out in Scottish schools towards the end of 1992 .
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