Example sentences of "is based on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forecast is based on assumptions of variable temperature rises across the region during the next 50 years , from around 1.1 to 4.2 degrees centigrade . |
| 2 | Much of Shavante life , in Maybury-Lewis 's words ( 1971 : 104 ) , ‘ is a function of politics , and Shavante politics is based on competition between groups of males ’ . |
| 3 | It is based on cattle from the six Dales counties of northern England and is specifically a milking breed rather than dual-purpose . |
| 4 | As this is a negligence action , liability is based on proof of fault . |
| 5 | It is based on responses from interested parties who were invited to give a critical appraisal of the current state of auditing and suggest possible solutions . |
| 6 | Individualised nursing is based on knowledge of a patient 's individuality . |
| 7 | Specifically , he argues that intentions are a form of generative transmission , and that children 's causal reasoning about actions ( like their causal reasoning about events ) is based on knowledge of generative transmission . |
| 8 | But a recent survey has also indicated that the study of communication theory in journalism or mass communication institutions , except in Latin America , is based on works from the West . |
| 9 | Figure 4.2 is based on work in the Home Office , but 29 per cent is left unallocated . |
| 10 | The following description is based on observations with a demonstration apparatus . |
| 11 | The analysis is based on observations of professional — parent and professional — child interactions during the assessments of thirty children referred to the Schools Psychological Service in three LEAs because they were thought to have emotional and behavioural difficulties . |
| 12 | The Philips recording , although made in the studio , is based on stagings at the Lyons Opera last year . |
| 13 | Helen , of course , is based on depiction of Helen , on Maria Bronte . |
| 14 | It is surprising how much 20th-century choral music is based on textures of the early Renaissance , yet this fact has almost passed unnoticed . |
| 15 | An interesting theory of the trade cycle was propounded by Paul Samuelson in 1939 and is based on interaction between the multiplier process and the accelerator principle . |
| 16 | In the article ‘ Illiterations ’ ( 1989a ; revised in 1991a:250–64 ) she demonstrates that the development of the Western conception of creativity in women and men is based on metaphors of reproduction which figure woman 's role as the material ‘ work ’ of child-bearing , and the experience of men as spontaneous spurts of genius . |
| 17 | The calculation of earnings per share is based on earnings of £3,665,000 . |
| 18 | The Bill is based on proposals in the Education White Paper Choice and Diversity , published in June which , according to Mr Patten , builds on the success achieved by schools which have already opted out . |
| 19 | In relation to nationalised industries , it is commonplace to vest in a particular Minister of the Crown a power to issue general directives as to the running of the industry in question but this is again nothing more than a matter of organisational preference ; not , of course a preference which is a matter of caprice but which is based on notions of the best procedures to attain the objective in view . |
| 20 | Within the A sections , every phrase is based on variants of a single rhythm ( etc . ) . |
| 21 | This last proposition is based on experience of systems where the intervention requires complex manipulative activity , for example a surgeon dealing with an emergency during an operation or an aircraft pilot taking over manually . |
| 22 | However , the latter figure is based on answers to a question in the 1981 census about the country of birth of one 's head of household , and can not be considered very accurate . |
| 23 | Thus Andre Beteille states that ‘ Natural inequality is based on differences in quality , and qualities are not just there , so to say , in nature ; they are as human beings have defined them , in different societies , in different historical epochs ’ . |
| 24 | The publication by Rao et al referred to by D. R. Goldsmith in his letter , is based on reports by Ciba-Geigy of India Ltd . |
| 25 | In the UK the FT-SE 100 index is based on quotations from SEAQ rather than transactions prices , and so the index is likely to be a more accurate reflection of the current state of the equity market . |
| 26 | The commission 's report is based on investigations in 20 local authorities and on postal surveys . |
| 27 | I mean we , we clearly do not have a socialist society even at the end of land reform as we , as we 've seen in a sense we 've created a , a private enterprise system which is based on equalities within capitalism . |
| 28 | This tradition goes back to the earliest days of the Ottoman state , to Molla Edebali ( d. 726/1326 ) , Osman 's father-in-law , and is based on statements in both the and the . |
| 29 | The plaintiffs ' claim in these proceedings is based on allegations of a complicated fraud said to have been perpetrated by the first defendant Mr. Tully in conspiracy with his wife the second defendant , Mrs. Tully and with all or some of the other first 16 defendants . |
| 30 | And thirdly they argue that a model formulated by Japanese scientists to estimate the numbers of sperm whales , which is based on age of whale at sexual maturity , offers better evidence about whale stocks than the model developed by the International Institute for Economic Development , which uses length of whale ; yet the Japanese model does not fit the data as well as the IIED model . |