Example sentences of "it is [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 31 | In this case it is based on the Parachute Regiment 's 2nd Battalion ( 2 PARA ) , supported by light armoured vehicles of the Life Guards , gunners from 7 Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery ( 7 PARA RHA ) , engineers from ? |
| 32 | It is based on ‘ commonly accepted general principles of good journalistic practice ’ built by council adjudications over many years . |
| 33 | It is a bit of a labour seeing this daft C movie last thing before Christmas , especially since it is based on the DC Comic series , which was beautifully drawn and imaginatively based on the Beauty and the Beast story . |
| 34 | It is based on a study of flashing light and vibrating pad alarms at the Radcliffe Hospital and Infirmary , Oxford . |
| 35 | It is based on the so-called ‘ main guidelines ’ adopted by the Soviet parliament last September after it had rejected the widely acclaimed Shatalin plan . |
| 36 | It is based on the assumption that the sacred is better than the secular , that the Church is essentially European and only universal by implication , that celibacy is better than marriage , that belief can not go hand in hand with doubt , that the clerical state is more sublime than the lay , and hence that women are excluded from belonging at the level at which this belonging is most valued . |
| 37 | Again , the theory of this is straightforward ; it is based on standard probability theory , such as is widely used in other disciplines , notably in the biological sciences , where the sampling of a population is an accepted way of establishing the variety of species in a given area . |
| 38 | It is based on a real-life episode of seven years ago : the murder of an elderly Jewish-American tourist on a Mediterranean cruise ship by Palestinian terrorists . |
| 39 | Mr Ibrahim al-Beshari , Foreign Minister , said Libya would continue to fight UN Security Council Resolution 748 ‘ because it is based on the logic of force , not of law ’ . |
| 40 | It is formative as it is based on qualitative judgements which are the basis for future action |
| 41 | It is negotiated , i.e. it is based on shared perceptions of performance relative to agreed criteria . |
| 42 | This is the fact that it is based on what has appeared to be a uniquely simple fuel , and one whose exploitation could avoid dependence on a variety of other uncertain choices . |
| 43 | It is based on reasons which apply to its subjects . |
| 44 | This may be no coincidence : it is based on Bharatha Natyam , the dance of Ramanujan 's mathematically aware Tamil Nadu . |
| 45 | The most obvious is that it helps you prepare your position so that it is based on facts rather than speculation or wishful thinking . |
| 46 | In other words it is a selfish conception and it is based on the individual 's own experience . |
| 47 | It is based on railcoach 222 , and is the only double-deck illuminated car in the fleet . |
| 48 | It is based on cattle from the six Dales counties of northern England and is specifically a milking breed rather than dual-purpose . |
| 49 | It is based on the agreed belief that a regular count of several basic demographic factors is vital for an understanding of the structure of our society , and at each census it is customary to ask certain specific questions which deal with current matters of special importance . |
| 50 | In addition , it is based on historical data and , in any case , influences only their target allocation and not their actual allocation . |
| 51 | It is based on the food 's minimum life-span — beyond the date shown the product will be past its best . |
| 52 | It is based on real people , genuine exhibits and historical facts . |
| 53 | Fazekas de St Groth calls his system ‘ ascites without the mouse ’ ; it is based on a method used for decades to Brow bacteria in suspension . |
| 54 | It is based on the minister 's assertion that there was no delay by the manufacturers , Dista Products Ltd. in giving the Committee on Safety of Medicines ( CSM ) information about accumulation of the drug in the elderly ; nor by CSM in acting on this and on its own reports of adverse reactions . |
| 55 | But it is based on a reasonable argument ; and the strong blue shift seen in the early stages of explosion justifies the adjective ‘ white ’ . |
| 56 | The study is tentative , because it is based on a handful of subjects . |
| 57 | Unlike other inorganic texts it is based on the periodic table , although 500 of its 1365 pages are on introductory or special topics , such as organometallics , cluster and bio-inorganic chemistry , which have developed in recent years . |
| 58 | They say the survey is inaccurate because it is based on incorrect figures that the Prime Minister gave to parliament this year . |
| 59 | It is based on a design from the RATP Paris metro authority , but a private company , Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne , is making and selling it . |
| 60 | I believe that this trend will spread and that it is based on very sound educational grounds . |