Example sentences of "based on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derrida 's admirers , and perhaps some disinterested observers , would reject such charges as based on misunderstandings of his work . |
| 2 | At worst , Western politicians , and some academic and journalistic commentators , have shared the mentality of the apparatchiks , but most have remained attached to their illusions that differences between East and West were based on misunderstandings rather than fundamental disagreements . |
| 3 | There is a good deal of mythology and misapprehension based on misunderstandings about sound-symbol relationship and its connection with where symbols occur in words . |
| 4 | We may prefer arrangements based on institutions like the church and the shop but gangs and parties are also forms of social institution , not perhaps quite so easy to break down and displace as ‘ disorganization , would imply . |
| 5 | But when well played it gives a good top register to the clarinet choir or wind orchestra , which are more massive media than the orchestra based on strings — or at any rate less delicate in texture on the whole . |
| 6 | ( Ruby does not need FDA clearance because it is based on products that occur naturally . ) |
| 7 | It says : all authoritative directives should be based on reasons which already independently apply to the subjects of the directives and are relevant to their action in the circumstances covered by the directive . |
| 8 | It is based on reasons which apply to its subjects . |
| 9 | Such an obligation , usually thought of as nothing more than a reason to obey , may be based on reasons other than the authority of the law . |
| 10 | Second , Rawls is anxious to make clear that the choice of principles because they express human nature ‘ is not a so-called ‘ radical ’ choice : that is , a choice not based on reasons … |
| 11 | These are individuals whose behaviour is considered to be so outrageous as to fall completely outside the range of actions based on reasons and causes . |
| 12 | This implies tasks based on rules for example arithmetic , or on logic , for example fault finding . |
| 13 | The enhancements to the gateways include a new Directory Exchange Agent , DXA , which handles directory synchronisation , and an AliasMapper which provides the alias mapping for automatic alias and originator/recipient name generation , based on rules defined by the systems administrator . |
| 14 | Within its peer group , the young child , by interacting with others and playing childhood games , learns to conform to the accepted ways of a social group and to appreciate the fact that social life is based on rules . |
| 15 | It was inconceivable that the member states would have agreed , after years of negotiations , to a Common Fisheries Policy based on rules of registration that were themselves incompatible with Community law . |
| 16 | In much of the literature , savings are assumed to be based on rules of thumb . |
| 17 | Consequently , they propose a policy more akin to that of the US and based on rules which would automatically forbid mergers above a given size . |
| 18 | These Other Holland holidays are all based on flights from the U.K. to Amsterdam , Schiphol airport , or by rail throughout . |
| 19 | I believe that a ‘ Documenta ’ exhibition should be based on artists of proven worth , or relatively so . |
| 20 | Writing a ‘ philosophical , not a practical , proposition ’ in this week 's British Medical Journal , Mr Drife says feelings about breasts are far from logical and are based on attitudes to sexuality and femininity . |
| 21 | During this first imprisonment , which lasted from 1660 to 1672 , Bunyan published Grace Abounding , which was based on sermons given by him in prison . |
| 22 | I dimly understood that by holding out to me this realm of material essences , available by an act of will alone , The Fat Controller was condemning me to a cosmos of brand names , a metaphysic of motifs , a logic of logos , and an epistemology based on EPOS ( The Electronic Point of Sale method of inventory-keeping , which was just coming into use at this time among major retailers ) . |
| 23 | The clarinet is of great agility , and passages based on arpeggios are very much in its character . |
| 24 | Such judgements should not be based on opinions about the ‘ quality of life ’ as in this case . |
| 25 | When this papal claim was made , Charles was busy annexing the territories of the newly deceased Carloman , and seemed unlikely to offer the traditional Frankish support to the pope against the Lombards , based on agreements made by his father Pepin le Bref . |
| 26 | Any clusterer should be founded on some kind of theory based on probabilities . |
| 27 | There were many food kitchens and supplementary feeding centres run by Unicef and the Red Cross ; several were based on projects already started by local women . |
| 28 | It should be noted that this investigation was based on definitions derived from the CED . |
| 29 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 30 | Defences based on matters outside the driver 's control such as a dog running into the path of the car or a tree being blown across the road are generally good . |