Example sentences of "[noun pl] on the basis " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has already been noted that some science students had made the choice between science and arts on the basis that it was easier to keep up with arts in one 's spare time than it was to keep up with science . |
| 2 | ‘ People ought to be able to decide whether they want to take risks on the basis of information which gives them an idea of how much risk there is , ’ says Helen Peggs , ‘ but at the moment the information they get is often distorted . ’ |
| 3 | It is important to appropriately balance these risks on the basis of adequate information . |
| 4 | Does the electorate vote for parties on the basis of their programmes or policies ? |
| 5 | How informed are the electorate about policies and programmes , and do they vote for parties on the basis of their programmes ? |
| 6 | Of the 127 seats at stake ( one through a by-election ) , 77 were in 47 prefectural districts , where candidates were chosen by name , while the remaining 50 were in the national constituency and were allocated between the parties on the basis of proportional representation . |
| 7 | Additional seats would go proportionately to the parties on the basis of the proportion of votes received in the region . |
| 8 | Vendors who are selling at a substantial price ( including an element for goodwill ) , which has been agreed between the parties on the basis of certain assumptions made by the purchasers regarding the business , are compensated for any risk that they will be asked to take . |
| 9 | An order may be made , on application , for the joinder of another party or parties on the basis that common questions arise , the relief sought is in respect of the same transaction , or it is desirable to make the order ( Ord 5 , r 2 ) . |
| 10 | However , an experiment is now taking place here whereby cyclists may share the space with the walkers on the basis of equality . |
| 11 | The Assembly had 65 seats , made up as follows : 53 allocated directly to party lists on the basis of proportional representation ; 10 representing the 10 regional democratic councils or RDCs ( the RDCs having also been elected in polling on Oct. 5 ) ; and two chosen by the National Congress of Local Democratic Organizations ( NCLDO , itself elected by RDC members ) . |
| 12 | In the meantime , database designers can strengthen the chances of protection by retaining copies of layouts and specifications for databases on the basis that anyone copying the structure of their database indirectly infringes the copyright subsisting in these materials , subject to them not being dictated by function . |
| 13 | There seems to be a tendency to build up security organizations on the basis of ‘ worst-case ’ arguments ( such as the possible increase in terrorism ) , which leads to serious encroachment on the liberties of citizens and to increasing paranoia . |
| 14 | The Office of Fair Trading agreed that ‘ from a competition viewpoint there might be a great deal of benefit in combining the two funds and placing them on insurance principles , setting premiums on the basis of risk ’ . |
| 15 | The key assumption of his model is that the information is received by one trader at a time , and each recipient trades on the basis of this information before it becomes known to anyone else . |
| 16 | A seven-member commission had the job of ranking the candidates on the basis of their scientific qualifications and on their performance at an oral examination consisting of a discussion of their scientific work and an academic lesson . |
| 17 | Member states will be exchanging information on non-national electors and candidates on the basis of the information provided with the aim of preventing double voting or candidacy and to enforce concurrently disqualifications imposed by a home member state . |
| 18 | Pelseneer ( 1926 ) considered the broadest specimens to be females but most authors have not found it possible to determine the sex of living animals on the basis of shell form or body colour , although the largest individuals are usually females ( see , for example , Feare , 1970c ; osborne , 1977 ; Palmer , 1984 ) . |
| 19 | Condition ( 1 ) is regarded as necessary because it is clearly not legitimate to conclude that all metals expand when heated on the basis of just one observation of a metal bar 's expansion , say , any more than it is legitimate to conclude that all Australians are drunkards on the basis of one observation of an intoxicated Australian . |
| 20 | To some extent , of course , local party politics is simply national party politics writ small-the electorate frequently votes on the basis of non-local factors , something well illustrated in 1982 when the local elections were , as Crewe remarked ( The Times , 8 May 1982 , p. 2 ) , ‘ a referendum ’ on the central government 's ‘ handling of the Falklands crisis ’ — a far cry from the local population choosing its local decision-makers on the basis of local political issues . |
| 21 | A statement issued by the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry on July 9 described the suspension of Yugoslavia 's membership of the CSCE as " unjust and wrong " and as a " contravention " of CSCE principles which sought peaceful solutions on the basis of full communication " on equal terms " with all parties . |
| 22 | This brings into play the logical faculties of discrimination and selection which assimilate perceptual stimuli to previously encountered images on the basis of structural analogy . |
| 23 | As history shows , science has ideological and social purposes ; it can lend legitimacy to social policies , provide legitimation for social inequities and justify power relationships on the basis of natural categories . |
| 24 | And establishing stable trading relationships on the basis of quality , continuity , mutual support . |
| 25 | Native speakers can usually still understand what is said , if necessary by guessing at inaudible or unrecognisable words on the basis of their knowledge of what the speaker is talking about ; foreign learners of English , on the other hand , having in general less ‘ common ground ’ or shared knowledge with the speaker , often find that these subordinate tone-units , with their ‘ throw-away ’ , parenthetic style , cause serious difficulties in understanding . |
| 26 | Forms are forwarded to senior tutors on the basis of their current ‘ ranking ’ . |
| 27 | According to this report , the party had no links with the PLO , opposed the armed struggle , and favoured the achievement of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders on the basis of a direct dialogue with Israel . |
| 28 | A are you still intending to favour internal spending vis-a-vis acquisition opportunities on the basis that acquisitions are just too overpriced or with the eleven percent gearing do you think you will be er jumping at the bit a bit fairly soon ? |
| 29 | Before the law was introduced in the Greek parliament , there was an extremely long procedure during which the minister of education visited each Greek campus and held lengthy discussions with the universities ' senates on the basis of written replies to a questionnaire distributed by the ministry to each member of the university community in Greece . |
| 30 | We decided to begin our search in the deep midwaters on the basis of the results mentioned above , even though , at first sight , biological considerations might have suggested that inshore waters were more promising . |