Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] base on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conditions agreed on Dec. 16 , which were based on a set of guidelines elaborated by France for recognition of new states emerging in Europe , included ( i ) acceptance of the UN , Helsinki Act and Paris Charter commitments on the rule of law , democracy and human rights ; ( ii ) guarantees of ethnic and minority rights ; ( iii ) acceptance of the inviolability of frontiers ; ( iv ) honouring disarmament and regional security commitments ; ( v ) arbitration to decide a structure to replace the old state ; ( vi ) acceptance of the draft agreement on Yugoslavia 's future , elaborated by the EC peace conference [ see p. 38559 ] . |
| 2 | I was attending elsewhere to an immigration problem which was based on a misunderstanding between the Home Office and the Foreign Office . |
| 3 | His figure , which was based on a tally kept by victim support groups , was criticized by other experts , who argued that a longer period would have to elapse before such a large number of people could develop cancer . |
| 4 | After the success of Jean de Florette , which was based on a novel by Marcel Pagnol , here is another dramatisation of one of his charming and sentimental takes of friendship in Provence . |
| 5 | Such romantic stories and ballads inspired many nineteenth-century ballets , directly or indirectly , from Petipa 's Raymonda , Massine 's Symphonie Fantastique and Lenau 's Don Juan ( to the tone poem by Strauss which was later to inspire an Ashton ballet ) to La Sonnambula ( Balanchine 's ballet based on Bellini 's opera which was based on a Walter Scott novel , see page 33 ) . |
| 6 | Some of the answers are revealed in this study , which was based on a project originated by the Sheffield Branch of Cruse . |
| 7 | They had realised , as William Pitt had done , that minimum wage legislation , even if it were based on a family with three children , was not enough to meet the need of all families . |
| 8 | It was based on a nostalgia for the epoch of " la grande nation " , impossible to recreate under the conditions of the twentieth century . |
| 9 | It was based on a model of language derived from Latin rather than English . |
| 10 | It was based on a handful of samples and even they showed widely fluctuating results . ’ |
| 11 | Starring Anthony Hopkins , it was based on a book by an American journalist who 'd been one of the first people into the bunker after the allied victory . |
| 12 | It was based on a fusion of the commitment to full employment and a desire to promote consumer choice . |
| 13 | And it was based on a photograph of his brother 's pet , taken in Liverpool in the 1880s . |