Example sentences of "based [prep] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our modern life is based to a larger extent than is usually realised upon faith in the honesty of the other . |
| 2 | The sociological variant combines similar scepticism with an analysis of medical power and its effects and is based on a wider critique of the professions and professionalism . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the anxiety that still persists in Staffordshire about the fate of the Staffordshire regiment is not mere local and parochial concern but is based on a wider concern for the strength of the infantry ? |
| 4 | He therefore suggested that a model based on a higher proportion of sinistrals with bilateral speech than 15 per cent would provide the only model not rejected by the observed incidence . |
| 5 | Codes based on a higher number of bits can deliver more colours and intensities than those using very few bits . |
| 6 | It can be argues , however , that Engels and Marx did not rule out such a possibility themselves , as is suggested by the discussion of the success of the Germanic tribes in overthrowing Rome , a case when people with a lower technology replaced a society based on a higher stage . |
| 7 | ( The questions are based on a fuller questionnaire by Horne J. A. and Ostberg O. ( 1976 ) . |
| 8 | Prices plunged in October to their lowest level for more than 14 years ( taking the price of beans in London to £655 a tonne ) after the 74-country International Coffee Organization ( ICO ) failed to agree on a new price stabilization agreement favoured by the USA , the largest consumer , based on a greater allocation of the export market to some coffee producers , notably Colombia , at the expense of Brazil and the African countries . |
| 9 | Harrison and Mehta are more convincing when they argue that one precondition for a long-term settlement in Afghanistan based on a stricter interpretation of non-alignment could be a broad Great Power or regional understanding on the neutralisation of Southwest Asia . |
| 10 | This chapter concentrates on these three national clearinghouses already established , and is based on a longer paper on the subject . |