Example sentences of "based [adv] upon [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is a common fault , particularly in criminal law , to give the impression that the answer is based wholly upon common sense and a few gleanings from the Sunday newspapers .
2 Punk rock was over by then anyway ( real punks claimed it finished in 1976 , but who were the ‘ real ’ punks ? ) and in its place there was an orgy of cross-cultural pollination , based entirely upon received ideas .
3 Thus , in a situation where the contemporary social dynamic was seen as disordered and destructive , the new critical emphasis offered to intellectuals a mirror of their own estrangement and distance from everyday life , while holding up the ideal of a community of feeling and understanding based only upon literary criticism .
4 The data derived from this project should also permit some investigation of the extra-parochial dimensions of community in a manner which is difficult , if not impossible , in studies based largely upon parochial and manorial records .
5 Nevertheless , there are often Possibilities for the supplier to charge different people different amounts for the same good based approximately upon marginal value , for example a fixed charge plus an amount dependent upon intensity of use .
6 theses , only two published books ( her own ( 1977 ) and that of Singh ( 1978 ) ) were based substantially upon primary empirical research within prisons .
7 A number of studies based primarily upon private sector organisations have analysed the impact that these variables will have .
8 These responses are based specifically upon native speakers ' intuitions about what constitutes a well-formed , coherent narrative .
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