Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] be base on " in BNC.

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1 Until recently , the nuclear deployments of the superpowers have been based on ‘ countervalue ’ targeting , within the doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction ( MAD ) .
2 Since the 1950s the main achievements in Bach research have been based on a new examination of music sources .
3 So far , all the investigations of definitional overlap using the MRDs have been based on one sample of data , which was selected at random from a corpus of business letters .
4 The numbers within the Council Tax Control Team have been based on a pro rata of case load plus a 20% increase for personal elements less a nominal number to reflect the transfer of routine functions to the operational teams .
5 The majority of attempts to gain greater insight into the organisation of the manufacture of ornamental metalwork and the meaning of the decoration have been based on the decoration itself .
6 Although most descriptive grammars have been based on written documents , a few , such as that by Palmer ( 1965 ) , and that of the français fondamental , have been based on the spoken forms of the language .
7 Most comparisons between human and animal insulins have been based on responses to acute hypoglycaemia , often in non-diabetic subjects , and have found little or no difference between responses with the different species of insulins .
8 Where too few examples of an artist 's work were sold in any one year , the calculations have been based on a series of overlapping pairs of years .
9 There have been few studies of adults with cystic fibrosis with respect to employment , education , housing , insurance , and other features of lifestyle , and most such studies have been based on patients attending large clinics , who may be unrepresentative of the total population with the disease .
10 The most fruitful studies have been based on calculated energy levels .
11 However a number of these studies have been based on percentages of graduates , rather than all those who had originally entered the degree programmes .
12 We say that we will protect single retired people , we will ensure that the rebate system is improved not only to help those people , but to target help on all those who need it and we will ensure that what people pay is based on their ability to pay and not on their status .
13 Some definitions of style have been based on this assumption .
14 As far as official policies are concerned , assumptions concerning integration have been based on the acceptance of white majority schools as both normal and desirable .
15 With no exceptions these results have been based on poorly controlled trials which , although they do not show that herpes vaccines do n't work , certainly do not prove that they do .
16 Previous estimates of the amount of methane emitted by cattle as they digest their food have been based on experiments in sealed chambers , where cattle 's behaviour is different from when they are outside .
17 She concludes that , on balance , the RMCs have done an excellent job and that the most successful ones have been based on colleges or groups of colleges which already had pockets of energy and entrepreneurial spirit and like the South West RMC were closely linked with the communities they served .
18 Many novels of adventure have been based on the chivalric theme of service to women .
19 The company says all previous Unix systems have been based on a clock granularity of 100Hz and that it has developed an extension that allows an operator to select the clock or alarm granularity that optimises the equipment .
20 Most text retrieval systems have been based on statistics and probabilities .
21 To date most stratification schemes have been based on exercise testing , Hotter recordings and coronary arteriography though a number of newer variables have been recently investigated .
22 Usually such inferences have been based on quantitative analyses of single variables — nearly always phonological variables , such as the incidence of postvocalic /r/ in New York speech ( Labov 1966 ) .
23 Not surprisingly , therefore , most approaches have been based on the cultural dimension with the addition of ecological and occupational factors .
24 Many of the criticisms of Davis and Moore 's views have been based on evidence which indicates that no stratification system operates as their theory argues .
25 The courses , examinations and working practices have been based on their perceptions .
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