Example sentences of "of [noun pl] based [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Qaddafi writes about constraints , compulsion , oppression , but as characteristics of states based on political rather than on social ( ‘ natural ’ ) bonds . |
| 2 | Nevertheless the pursuit of policies based on national self-interest led to competitive depreciation and the introduction of tariffs and other trade restrictions . |
| 3 | Their protagonists argue that the law of murder is so important socially that derogation from the principle of maximum certainty should be allowed in favour of more accurate labelling by the courts ; opponents argue that the principle of maximum certainty is needed here specifically to reduce the risk of verdicts based on discriminatory or irrelevant factors , such as distaste for the defendant 's background , allegiance , or other activities . |
| 4 | In the second century reduction and embellishment of patterns based on all-over structures of lozenges ( and insets ) occurs . |
| 5 | Although the use of a recognition test may have minimized the use of strategies based on risk-related information at testing , subjects nonetheless still made risk judgments when they initially watched the films . |
| 6 | Although Lord Wilberforce in Reardon Smith Lines called for a review of cases based upon excessive technicality , his Lordship 's views are obiter and there is no doubt that he anticipated a definitive review of the question in future cases . |
| 7 | The result was a set of institutions based on English principles , especially the ideas of the utilitarian Jeremy Bentham . |
| 8 | The initial calculation of provisions to reduce stocks from cost to net realisable value may often be made by the use of formulae based on predetermined criteria . |
| 9 | i ) It is congruent with the traditional fungal taxonomy and with phylogenetic trees of fungi based on nuclear SSUrRNA data : the two pyrenomycetes ( P.anserina and N.crassa ) branch very closely together and their distance to A.nidulans , a representative of the plectomycetes , is shorter than that to S.cerevisiae , belonging to the endomycetes. ii ) The position of P.wickerhamii is unexpectedly closer to S.cerevisiae than to all other ascomycetes , whereas the distance between S.cerevisiae and P.wickerhamii lies in the same range as that between the two ascomycetes , S.cerevisiae and A.nidulans . |
| 10 | Early human consciousness would have been a world of certainties based upon simple social conventions and the fact of being born irrevocably into a clear cut role in life . |
| 11 | In the case of trusts based on prosperous urban centres , there was a considerable increase in the participation of smaller savers . |
| 12 | Have we coped with the very different needs demanded in small groupings of workers based in small shops , or residential homes , or private sports centres , small offices or even individuals working on their own ? |
| 13 | To back up this strategic move , Mills cited figures from market researcher 's the Gartner Group , which forecasts that the number of applications based on client-server kit will grow to 65% in 1995 from 8% today . |
| 14 | In some cases geographers are adapting techniques , as in the use of soil micro-organisms as an indicator of the relationship between land use change and soil characteristics ( Maltby , 1975 ) and developing techniques with a great range of applications based upon magnetic susceptibility ( e.g. Oldfield , 1983a ) and dating using 210 Pb which is of great accuracy and value for recent sediments ( Appleby and Oldfield , 1978 ) , and particularly enhanced the study of lakes and their drainage basins ( Oldfield , 1977 ) and these developments are referred to also in chapter 6 ( p. 124 ) . |
| 15 | In hydrology , definition of the pathways of movement through the hydrological cycle has necessarily provided an important focus in studies by physical geographers but in geomorphology the use of concepts based upon energy-balance concepts has been less striking . |
| 16 | Brown and Harris have conducted a series of studies based on intensive interviews with large numbers of women in the community . |
| 17 | Feral Pigeons in towns have wide range of plumages based on black , white , blue-grey and reddish cinnamon , but blue rock type almost identical with wild Rock Dove . |
| 18 | a meaningless amalgam of figures based on different classifications applied to dissimilar areal units with varying degrees of precision . |
| 19 | They relate to such key issues as : the long-standing debate about specialist and generic modes of working ; the advocacy of teams based in small neighbourhood patches and the assertion that such teams are the best way of working with informal networks and non-statutory agencies ; the official enthusiasm for ‘ mobilizing resources ’ and casting social services in an enabling role : and the advocacy of a demarcation between ‘ purchaser ’ and provider roles . |
| 20 | One such was the proposed establishment of com-munities based upon occupational membership . |
| 21 | As a flexible voluntary programme Eureka Audiovisual aims to give new impetus to the European market by promoting the establishment of networks of partners based on concrete projects , from the creation to the distribution of audiovisual and cinematographic works . |
| 22 | Beveridge ( 1911 ) refers to former evidence of trees based upon Gaelic place-names . |
| 23 | A computerised version would have a number of levels based on key words , e.g. high-frequency spellings , and also enable teachers to introduce new vocabulary . |
| 24 | Hospitals are often composed of groupings based around particular medical skills such as physiotherapy or radiology . |
| 25 | Editor , — Linda Beecham reports the planned use of ‘ league tables ’ of hospitals based on key indicators to allow the assessment of performance . |
| 26 | Practice was a long way from the standard understanding of the concept of budgets based on explicit workloads and levels of activity . |
| 27 | They are either based on successions of brief movements , only loosely related , or on the fusion together in one movement of sections based on different musical ideas or constructions . |
| 28 | Everything that he had written during the previous four years on the overriding need to oppose fascism , on the need to defend nation states through the creation of a Strong system of alliances based on collective security , and on the central role of the Soviet Union in promoting peace and stability , all was reduced to the level of absurdity by the Nazi-Soviet pact , the invasion of Poland and subsequently the war in Finland . |