Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New pullets will have the very valuable advantage of being placed on fresh land where there is little , of any , build-up of parasites and bacteria . |
| 2 | For this reason the accelerationist hypothesis stands accused of being based on irrational behaviour , for rational agents should not make persistent mistakes . |
| 3 | The possibility of being attacked on public transport is still low , especially if you avoid the more notorious stations , such as those in Central London and at the southern end of the Northern Line . |
| 4 | — like being supported on warm porridge |
| 5 | Apart from being broadcast on Belgian television , this interview has been shown several times to the mainly student audience of the association , but the text has never been published . |
| 6 | I have always considered drama training to be based on simple precepts , for acting is not a complicated art . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It has just been argued that detailed financial and managerial controls need to be based on specific product and/or SBU categories . |
| 10 | The proposed psychology was , however , to be based on neurological findings . |
| 11 | Hew was convicted on the basis of confessions he had made under torture and because he had read The Dogs of War , a novel about a coup in an imaginary country widely thought to be based on Equatorial Guinea . |
| 12 | Indeed the type of ceremonial gift exchange to which we have referred seems to be based on egalitarian notions of reciprocity and sharing . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We thought that this was rather a superficial document , containing many forecasts which seemed to be based on inadequate data or questionable assumptions . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Typically , they tend to be based on American-made cars from the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 19 | You would n't want the management of patients to be based on anecdotal evidence , would you , with all its distortions ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It could be argued , therefore , that good education ought always to be based on multi-cultural principles . |
| 22 | To twentieth century man the operation of these laws appears to be based on necessary events of great cruelty . |
| 23 | They were to be based on existing regional and other colleges already substantially engaged in higher education . |
| 24 | Initially , the view in the United States was that the refusal had to be based on good grounds — for example , religious beliefs strongly held — but the position now is moving towards the idea that ‘ individual freedom here is guaranteed only if people are given the right to make choices which would generally be regarded as foolish ones ’ . |
| 25 | Any public rebuke to the BBC , still more any action , will need to be based on watertight evidence . |
| 26 | Mistrust of a solicitor had to be based on tangible fact , and could not simply reflect a suspicion of the profession in general . |
| 27 | For this to be effective each transmitter-receiver system needs to be based on varied signals or there is great confusion and you become unable to tell which ferret is where . |
| 28 | Until recently , he complains , theories of literacy have tended to be based on instructional techniques rather than linguistic theory : research on reading has been dominated by experimental psychology , with the kinds of results we saw above ( Chapter 1 ) . |
| 29 | Gorbachev also endorsed the comments of the Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin , who stated on Sept. 5 that Soviet-Cuban relations had to be " de-ideologized " and , from now on , had to be based on free-trade terms rather than on previous military or political dogmas . |
| 30 | Even when they apply themselves to understanding the effects of social relations on individual cognition , as with work on social identity and social representations , the patterns they describe are assumed to be based on universal properties of the human mind . |