Example sentences of "to be [verb] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when the discriminations of the zoologists began to be based on systematic classification rather than fantasy the criteria that were used to distinguish man from non-man remained very uncertain . |
| 2 | It has just been argued that detailed financial and managerial controls need to be based on specific product and/or SBU categories . |
| 3 | The most familiar is that of total ignorance , in the sense of making no response at all , and which could also be said to be based on total ignorance . |
| 4 | Although the assessment of damages often has to be based on scanty evidence , in the opinion of the Board the evidence adduced by the plaintiff as to damage in this case was inadequate to prove any damage beyond the purely nominal . |
| 5 | Within this context of the nation as a family , the actions of individuals were expected to be based on selfless service to their immediate group , and thereby to the state . |
| 6 | You would n't want the management of patients to be based on anecdotal evidence , would you , with all its distortions ? |
| 7 | Any public rebuke to the BBC , still more any action , will need to be based on watertight evidence . |
| 8 | Mistrust of a solicitor had to be based on tangible fact , and could not simply reflect a suspicion of the profession in general . |
| 9 | Professional views of mental illness , especially when manifested in the public realm , continue to be based on nineteenth century ideas about madness as something that should be brought under control and removed from the public gaze . |
| 10 | Deciding which measures to implement needs to be based on detailed knowledge of the emissions which power stations , traffic , homes and industry contribute to each pollutant . |
| 11 | Though many analysts believe the desire for Marcos 's return to be based on Filipino culture and tradition , others feel Marcos 's 20 years of corrupt rule has produced a psychologically damaged people . |
| 12 | However , a policy of community care has to be based on hard reality , not on romantic notions of the caring community nor on an ideology favouring charges and commercial provision . |
| 13 | Some , however , were concerned about the nature of the play activities , almost all of which were seen to be based on some kind of violence . |
| 14 | It is very different , and as you can see has to be based on some knowledge or understanding . |
| 15 | A problem arises here : the company policies and procedures need to be based on some knowledge of employees ' willingness to move but asking the employees whether they are willing to relocate will not provide constructive answers unless those concerned can have answers to their questions based on hard facts — which are usually given in written policy statements . |
| 16 | Indeed a number of recent centralised initiatives , such as TVEI , seem to be based on this premise , although , as Harland ( 1985 ) points out , compliance can not simply be bought with the allocation of resources . |
| 17 | There are at least three kinds of validity : construct validity which refers to the degree to which the test seems to be based on psychological theory , content validity which describes how well the test measures what it is intended to measure and criterion validity which indicates its value as a predictor using as criteria other measures of relevant performance . |
| 18 | It also has to avoid appearing coercive , for the system claims to be based on spontaneous co-operation , the defining principles of corporatism being unity , order and nationalism . |
| 19 | So far in this book we have emphasized the need for social research to be based on scientific method . |
| 20 | The legend that Crabb was taken back to Russia alive continued to circulate for several years and indeed still does , helped by a number of books claiming to be based on secret information from the East . |
| 21 | There was no more to be said on that subject . |
| 22 | " Gentlemen , " interrupted the Collector , " it 's clear that the difference between you is a deeply felt and scientific one which none of us here are qualified for adjudicating To an impartial observer it seems that there 's something to be said on either side … |
| 23 | The er the er it has to be said on this side I suspect that the brevity of that speech was quite welcome , only because er I think er a number of us were n't altogether sure how how much time we would , we would get in this er debate after the front bench speaks , speeches . |
| 24 | The aim of this book is to create a broad , multidisciplinary framework for thinking about what students are taught and ought to be taught on first degree courses . |
| 25 | It has to be extended on either side of the stream , so he has to take a note of the timber required . |
| 26 | They are shortly to be voting on new student dress regulations that will allow school principals to ban the sign from their institutions . |
| 27 | But her own feet , her veins , her weight , and her rheumatism were troubles to be ignored on this day and night when her darling girl was to shine in a proper setting . |
| 28 | She moved fast down river , the comforting throb of her engines arrowing out wash to be broken on each bank side . |
| 29 | you 've got to be monitored on that sort of thing . |
| 30 | Front-Bench spokemen also represent their constituents , and their constituents are as entitled to be heard on this matter as they are — |