Example sentences of "on the basis " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Further , on the basis of knowledge about museum collections , artists can find help in choosing ways of developing the art of the present . |
| 3 | My very writing became a different adventure , no longer the dolorous itinerary of a convalescent , no longer a begging for compassion and friendly faces , but a lucid building , which now was no longer solitary ; the work of a chemist who weighs and divides , measures and judges on the basis of assured proofs , and strives to answer questions . |
| 4 | In the profession I would much prefer to see work generated by the directors , and the casting directors taking more trouble to go round and see the actor at work , taking people on the basis of work they had already seen . |
| 5 | This is partly because of the structure of catholic nationalism in the Southern state and partly because the national unity sought by significant numbers of Northern catholic nationalists is still on the basis of the reversal of protestant — loyalist hegemony rather than a power compromise . |
| 6 | McAllister ( 1980 ) describes that political culture as traditionalist , and dominated by clientelism , parochialism , local attachment , and ascription : politicians were elected on the basis of local reputation and solely with reference to local issues . |
| 7 | But now , on the basis of a number of well-documented opinion polls , W. Harvey Cox ( 1985 ) argues that the majority in the Republic of Ireland favouring reunification is barely two to one , and that in the island as a whole it is three to two . |
| 8 | He also consulted protestant church leaders on the religious elements of the new constitution , a step unprecedented in catholic Ireland of his day , and gained their support on the basis of the recognition of their churches the constitution was to give . |
| 9 | On the basis of privately commissioned opinion polls showing an increasing majority in favour of some measure of divorce legislation , FitzGerald agreed with his cabinet to proceed with a referendum on whether to change the constitution so as to allow divorce for marriages irretrievably broken down , though only after a period of five years ' actual breakdown and legal separation . |
| 10 | In 1978 , on the basis of their professional knowledge of schooling and civil administration , the organization succeeded in obtaining the necessary government permission to open in Dalkey a multi-denominational school governed principally by the parents , the mode of religious instruction to be determined by them . |
| 11 | The clergy had informed the people 's conscience on the basis of what they considered to be the essential religious interests of their flock . |
| 12 | Murray ( 1983 ; 1985 ) advised not to expect too much of schools on the basis of his own in-depth research into two primary schools , one from each Northern group . |
| 13 | Pre-Victorian pubs were largely run on the basis of waiter-service , following from the original concept that the pub was a house open to the public for refreshment — hence the term ‘ public house ’ . |
| 14 | All the MEDIA projects are run on the basis of offering limited seed money to be used as a means of attracting further funding . |
| 15 | The information provided in this leaflet is not intended to be exhaustive , but tells you the basic facts about the IUD on the basis of evidence available at the time of publication . |
| 16 | Our structural reality is pre-selected on the basis of value and really to understand structured reality requires an understanding of the value source from which it is derived . |
| 17 | If the scores are tied , then the referee panel will award the victory on the basis of their appraisal of both contestants ' performances up to the point where injury occurred . |
| 18 | ‘ The Council must of course proceed on the basis of the vote , ’ he said . |
| 19 | A set of amnesics is first assembled on the basis of their low scores on a clinical memory test . |
| 20 | Each grapheme is then translated into a corresponding phonemic representation on the basis of pre-established conversion rules ( each grapheme would become associated with a particular phoneme as one 's reading skills develop ) . |
| 21 | According to functionalism , it is useful to categorize environmental stimuli on the basis of what they mean to a subject rather than on the basis of their gross physical characteristics . |
| 22 | According to functionalism , it is useful to categorize environmental stimuli on the basis of what they mean to a subject rather than on the basis of their gross physical characteristics . |
| 23 | If budget allocations for regions and districts are made on the basis of continuing existing spending patterns , this need will be overlooked , as most authorities do not have adequate provision for post-hospital care for elderly people . |
| 24 | Inevitably the services which had been planned on the basis of high seat-load factors quickly became overcrowded . |
| 25 | On the basis of this evidence they proceed to chastise Rover to a degree consistent with their temperament . |
| 26 | Here , as often with the author of Thankyou , Fog , we may well suspect that Auden generalizes about English life too much on the basis of his own late-Edwardian childhood in a comfortable rentier household . |
| 27 | It seems that on the basis of Canto 7 we can explain Pound 's hostility to Virgil very simply indeed : it was precisely Virgil 's melancholy , the lacrimae rerum which endears him to so many , that Pound could not stomach , so sanguine as he was and so determined to remain so . |
| 28 | In the meantime , ministers conducted individual diplomatic initiatives on the basis of Egyptian ideas not yet discussed by the government . |
| 29 | Roger Henderson , QC , the Bar 's public affairs spokesman , warned that the words used in the White Paper were open to different interpretations , but said : ‘ Lord Donaldson has plainly interpreted the White Paper on the basis that there has been a major change from the Green Paper . ’ |
| 30 | That means it will be the first time abortion has been debated as part of government legislation , rather than on the basis of a private member 's Bill . |