Example sentences of "[conj] it be [adv] based " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman knows that we are determined to sustain adult education , to extend it and to ensure that it is properly based in the local community . |
| 2 | While we can never be satisfied with results showing a pre-tax loss , we are confident that our recovery is well under way and that it is soundly based . |
| 3 | The results of the actor tests show that there are still substantial levels of discrimination against Asians and West Indians when applying for manual jobs ; that the discrimination is stronger against applicants for non-skilled rather than for skilled jobs ; that it is mainly based on colour prejudice rather than prejudice against foreigners ; and that levels of discrimination against Indians , Pakistanis and West Indians are much the same . |
| 4 | The candidate survey differed from the client survey in three respects : first , the rate of response was slightly lower , despite the fact that it was carefully based on the Financial Times listings of movements of executives and on firms where much headhunting was known to have taken place ; second , the views of headhunters were more negative ; and third , none would mention the names of specific search firms or venture opinions on them in particular . |
| 5 | He described this as a bold proposition , but stated that it was soundly based . |
| 6 | His group he 'll do the same test as the other group and it 's mainly based on vocabulary . |
| 7 | And it is all based on a true story . ’ |
| 8 | Either staff or other residents may initiate this segregation , and it is usually based on behaviour that is seen as disruptive , so those who are segregated in this way are not necessarily all suffering from dementia . |
| 9 | I mean , I do n't think anyone was aware when I arrived there , or when I departed , you know , actually , but there was something in the air at Rolling Stone , and it was really based on British typography and stolen from them . |
| 10 | A genuine case for abolition , if it is so based , needs to establish both that the alleged abuses are as stated and that they are endemic to the practice ; thus unavoidable . |
| 11 | The book is in fact a fourteenth or fifteenth-century forgery of uncertain Crowland authorship , but it is probably based partly on authentic contemporary evidence . |
| 12 | This degree of self-consciousness is rare in literature , but it is nevertheless based on the opposition between fabula and ryuzhet , and it is on this opposition that the literariness of all prose narrative rests . |
| 13 | Alexander III 's approach reflected his own predilections , but it was also based on a sound sense of the options open to him . |
| 14 | For instance , Ritchie Blackmore was a very fast player , but it was always based on a blues thing , never on ‘ How many notes can I get in the scale ? ’ |
| 15 | Curriculum reform , whether it is centrally determined or based on local or in-school planning , is generally held to be impossible unless it is firmly based on a plan for public examinations . |
| 16 | We must be careful with this argument because it is sometimes based on anatomical studies that have used insensitive methods or only a partial consideration of the data . |
| 17 | It is highly technical not just in the sense that it involves computer technology but also because it is totally based in the area of printing . |
| 18 | I think anybody who teaches in the creative arts has this [ rapport ] with kids , because it 's emotionally based … whereas if you 're dealing with a factual subject , a scientific subject , you 're dealing more with things and objects and reactions . |
| 19 | Because any sur any surplus you 're extracting from rich peasants is an artificial one because it 's only based on , you know , basically imposed suffering of poor peasants . |
| 20 | ‘ If you 'd really wanted to hurt me , you 'd have let Ash go ahead with the publicity , would have backed him up , and I would n't have been able to deny it because it was all based on the truth , but a twisted truth ! |
| 21 | Though it 's now based in Montreal , the ensemble is dedicated to keeping alive the traditional dancing of its native country . |
| 22 | Their solidarity was based on sex , their own sex , as much as it was ever based on class . |