Example sentences of "was based upon the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This conclusion was based upon the general perception that pre-1939 aviation was overly competitive and unregulated , and subject to vicious throat-cutting in the national interest . |
| 2 | Divorce of this kind was first introduced into English law by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 , and from then until 1969 it was based upon the doctrine that some matrimonial offence ( such as adultery or desertion ) must have been committed by one spouse before the other could obtain relief . |
| 3 | This omission , which now seems curious , was based upon the conventional notion of the organism as respondent . |
| 4 | Early work on spatial languages was based upon the principles of spatial inference and retrieval , and was not specifically digitally based ( McDermott 1980 ) . |
| 5 | tried to inaugurate a new concept of citizenship which would link men of different social classes , The concept was based upon the notion that there was a good common to members of all classes , a goal the existence of which could be established from German Idealist metaphysics and which could be made visible in actual measures of educational reform and social welfare . |
| 6 | The willingness of the Western democracies , led by the USA , to endorse Ceauşescu 's rule was based upon the view that his regime was pursuing independence from Moscow and that such a ‘ nationalist ’ line must involve domestic reform and liberalization . |
| 7 | In these schools and classrooms the more traditional approaches to teaching and learning were rejected , not because they were traditional but because their teachers came to realise that through a programme of learning which was based upon the qualities and gifts of each child , higher standards could be achieved . |
| 8 | The typical organization of early society was based upon the patriarchal family . |
| 9 | Popular political power was based upon the recognition of the equal status of all citizens before the law , and democracy was also the guarantee that equality would be maintained . |
| 10 | A charge was made for the abstraction , and this was based upon the maximum figure on the licence . |
| 11 | However , it was based upon the Rasch model , which , as we shall see later , has come under substantial criticism . |
| 12 | The first ground upon which recovery was sought was based upon the constitutional argument that since Parliament had not authorised the collection by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise of the tax the corporation was entitled to recover the amounts illegally exacted from it . |
| 13 | Writing subsequently and at greater length , Butenko set out a vision of the Soviet future that was based upon the concept of ‘ socialist popular self-management ’ and which involved the abolition of the nomenklatura appointments system and a wide-ranging electoral reform . |
| 14 | An extremely detailed investigation was based upon the Hubbard Brook forest of New Hampshire , USA where the pathways of chemical elements were studied under natural conditions and then after deforestation the biogeochemical cycles were investigated again and during subsequent recovery ( Likens et al . , |
| 15 | The structure of the book was based upon the distinction of four types of medium-scale systems each showing distinct but complementary properties and giving a progressive sequence to higher levels of integration and sophistication . |
| 16 | The Act was based upon the notion of freedom of contract , i.e. that the parties were free to make their contract upon whatever terms they pleased . |
| 17 | The appeal was based upon the consideration that Harris could have suffered foetal brain damage as a result of alcohol abuse by his mother , or from blows inflicted by his father who had tried to abort the foetus , but had succeeded only in causing it to be born three months prematurely . |
| 18 | It was based upon the designs of S. Sophia in Kiev and is , therefore , more elaborate in plan than is usual in this region . |
| 19 | Some historians remain sceptical about this , while others are convinced that it does , and that an early form of military organisation was based upon the herred system ; that it appears in southern Norway and Västergötland in Sweden too has led to the contention that it was introduced there in Viking times , perhaps by Swegen or Cnut . |
| 20 | In addition much of her extra-European influence was based upon the confidence and expertise of local British personnel rather than on physical power . |
| 21 | Erm well the the first point probably to make is that this er the manual that er Mr refers to was only published in June of this year er and clearly in terms of the information that er has been put in the statement , that was based upon the previous way of assessing the impact . |