Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] basis of " in BNC.

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1 The joint team established that the temperature of the electrons in the T-3 tokamak really was as high as the Soviet scientists estimated they were on the basis of their less-direct measurements .
2 I think its a bit of a simplification to say that its , its nature 's way of keeping us going , because actually er ro , the idea that romantic love is the start of a life long relationship that produces off spring is really quite recent , erm for , for most of history er marriage 's were on the basis of continuing er lines , continuing property and people had to erm some how or other cope with living with ano another person that might not necessarily have been the person that they would of chosen from love and , and this is still true in many societies and situations now .
3 Of the 165 cases in which damages were received without a court order , 104 were on the basis of the acceptance of the first offer that was made .
4 This was from the basis of a new found security in a relationship with a male student who managed to last out more than the usual six weeks of all my other relationships so far at college .
5 It was on the basis of this kind of observation that Morgan decided that there once existed in Polynesia a social order when sexual relations within one generation were so unspecific that all men of the ascending generation were ‘ fathers ’ and all women of the ascending generation were ‘ mothers ’ .
6 She formed an immediate trust and liking for the duo , and it was on the basis of trust that she agreed to record with them .
7 It was on the basis of these two documents that the 1987 statement declared that ‘ From that moment the position taken by the Bujan conference is considered to be invalidated . ’
8 if he dared to predict , it was on the basis of the evidence around him .
9 In other words it was on the basis of substitution .
10 It was on the basis of this document that the Roman Church asserted its prerogative to create kings , as well as to establish itself as a temporal authority .
11 It was on the basis of such national concerns that the Committee attempted to construct a version of English which while serving the state in strategic , institutional , and cultural terms , would also appear free from state control because apparently grounded in free individual identity .
12 This was on the basis of continued strong earnings growth throughout the recession , with Wolters Kluwer achieving a first half jump of 39% in after-tax earnings and forecasting a 20% rise for the whole of 1992 , and Elsevier predicting a rise of 16% for the full year .
13 It was on the basis of the decision in those two cases that Mr. Isaacs for the two councils in the Stoke-on-Trent case [ 1991 ] Ch. 48 submitted that , following those decisions , it was no longer appropriate for the national courts to investigate any issue of proportionality , and that the Torfaen case ( Case 145/88 ) [ 1990 ] 2 Q.B .
14 It would appear from his judgment that the main argument before him on behalf of W. was on the basis of section 8 giving W. an absolute right to refuse treatment .
15 It was on the basis of that document that the talks on board HMS Fearless were convened in October 1968 .
16 It was on the basis of that syllogism that the connection between schools and parents developed for another decade or more .
17 HWIM 's evaluation was on the basis of the 15 highest scoring words found anywhere in the utterance .
18 public consultation was on the basis of a dual carriageway and it
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