Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] on [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus those interests mobilized at the centre around the processes of production — the organized class interests of industrial and finance capital , the professions and organized labour — will differ from those organized locally , where mobilization usually cuts across class lines to be based on specific local consumption issues - council tenants , parents of under-fives and so on . |
| 2 | Thus , in general , it seems that backward projection on to historical states of language has tended to be based on present-day standard English and SBE , rather than other dialects , and as in the examples cited from Dobson ( below ) there has been a tendency to think of a phonemic set ( such as short /a/ ) as being invariant or nearly invariant within itself . |
| 3 | His book is the first to be based on close technical scrutiny of the parchment , which revealed several erased preparatory drawings that point to some controversy among the medieval planners . |
| 4 | They were to be based on existing regional and other colleges already substantially engaged in higher education . |
| 5 | Policy , it was believed , had to be based on sound scientific evidence ; otherwise , it would not be ‘ fair ’ to industry . |
| 6 | When presented in this way the proposed merger appears to be based on clear industrial logic , although it was considered by some to be partly a defensive move on the part of the companies involved ( especially Imperial , which was hoping that , by increasing its own size , it would help to reduce the chance of an unwanted takeover from a third party ) . |
| 7 | In any event , a ceasefire has to be observed on agreed front lines . |
| 8 | All transactions had to be recorded on government-provided fiscal receipts with special stamps . |
| 9 | He said agreement would have to be reached on stabilising atmospheric CO at some level before 2100 . |
| 10 | About half of the travelling families were found to be living on official local authority sites with only 28 per cent living on derelict land . |
| 11 | It was part of a wider agricultural system with sheep pastured on the rich meadow grass then walked to be folded on fallow arable areas overnight , where their dung helped to maintain fertility on the thin chalkland soils . |
| 12 | ( On Sept. 27 the Bundesrat , the West German upper house of parliament , approved the legal measures allowing foreign troops to be stationed on sovereign German territory from Oct. 3 . ) |