Example sentences of "[adv] be based [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their reasons for doing so were based on several fears : that family allowances would weaken the trade union movement by driving a wedge between the interests of single and married men and that they could interfere with wage negotiations to the detriment of wage rates . |
| 2 | Understanding can not be based on any one level . |
| 3 | Rights can not be based upon such characteristics as rationality , language or self awareness without excluding some humans as possessors of them . |
| 4 | If holist forms of explanation are to merit serious consideration , they must clearly be based on more than an uncritical acceptance of a crude version of historical materialism , and the claim that they are not threatened by counterfactuals such as those discussed at the start of the chapter must be given a less doctrinaire justification . |
| 5 | ( The terms we shall use here are based on both accounts , without exactly following either . ) |
| 6 | The forecast may then be based on this synthesis of informed and developed opinion , perhaps reformulated on a quantitative basis . |
| 7 | It should however be based on this internal recording and the final summary document should help to enhance the motivation and other benefits which pupils derive from the recording system . |
| 8 | My memory of the falls was non-existent , or rather was based on that picture of the falls in Stott 's book which showed a small waterfall on a moorland burn with Ben Tee beyond . |