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

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1 The Rules for the Sunday School were reaffirmed in 1862 and were used as a basis for the new Sunday School started in Edenderry in 1867 .
2 Even this product of genius was flawed as it trailed away into melodrama but for a fleeting moment Hollywood was shown what could be achieved if its resources were used as the basis for a director 's cinema .
3 To achieve this , the interviewees of the first stage were used as the basis of a series of ‘ snowball ’ samples from the ‘ hidden ’ sector .
4 Similar , though somewhat less extreme difficulties would ensue if the normal range of penalties applied by Crown Courts were used as the basis for the guide-lines .
5 This exercise provided a guide to the logical roles and activities of each group and the relationships between them , which , in conjunction with other background documents , was used as a basis for interviews with representative staff .
6 This was used as the basis for invitations , issued at the end of 1857 , to the nobility of every province to form committees which would draw up projects for the emancipation of their peasants .
7 Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets .
8 The census showed a continuing population drift to the west and south of the country , which , as the census was used as the basis for determining the relative representation of individual states within the House of Representatives , had important political implications .
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