Example sentences of "based not on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The treatment of intonational subordination is based not on the work of Brazil but on Crystal and Quirk ( 1964 ) , pp. 52–6 and Crystal ( 1969 ) , pp. 235–52 .
2 Once again , it is necessary that the separate items should be demonstrably reliable and valid , since specific interpretations may well be based not on the accumulation of correct and incorrect responses , but on the child 's pattern of scores .
3 The Community Charge was to be based not on the household , but on the individual .
4 He first of all asked for a mandate based not on the distortions of a month 's electioneering but on his 16 months in the leadership , not least his performance on the international stage .
5 In Britain , most juries would find it depraving and corrupting to solicit members of the public to become voyeurs of an actual rape , murder , and dismemberment , but a new criminal test based not on the effect of the work , but on the circumstances of its production could provide one more useful link in the chain of criminal provisions which modern media law requires .
6 So , underlying this chapter is a theory of ageing based not on the analysis of biologically determined differences in senescence or individual adjustments to the ageing process but , instead , on the social creation of dependent status and on the structural relationships between older people and younger adults and between different groups of older people , especially men and women .
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