Example sentences of "which [is] based [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Consider an example from the new Collins Cobuild dictionary ( 1987 ) , of which Sinclair is editor-in-chief and which is based on just the kind of computer analysis of text that he refers to .
2 The second one is erm a bottom up study which is based on today 's commitments but projecting them forward into the timescale in which we will have the aircraft and looking in that way to see how many and and in what way we would need them .
3 Does not this necessitate a definition which is based on neither lawyers ' rhetoric nor a reaction to it but on what they actually do ?
4 An investigation to assess the accuracy of this impression ( which is based on only a small sample of requests ) should , however , be conducted before any steps are taken to reorganise the delivery of such items at lunchtime .
5 From this perspective , the success of Labov 's work in New York City , which is based on more widely-known variables , suggests that New York City speech is much less divergent from mainstream American English than Belfast is from mainstream British English .
6 It has been criticised there on the grounds that any decision on lending which is based on how many characteristics an applicant shares with good or bad payers can not directly reflect the reality of whether or not that individual will be a good payer .
7 But the failings are not a reason for abandoning a system which is based upon very reasonable principles , although not always working in practice .
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