Example sentences of "[vb pp] on observation " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what he says about external objects may be false in spite of being founded on observation . |
| 2 | Lyell instead wanted an empirical theory founded on observation and practical experience that did not depend on any preconceived ideas from the Bible or elsewhere and which provided a methodology a means of explaining geological phenomena . |
| 3 | The two central summary reports compiled by the SD , based on observations of reactions in all parts of the Reich immediately following the attack , provide a more or less uniform picture of deep shock , dismay , anger , and outrage about the attempt on the Führer 's life , and immense relief at the outcome . |
| 4 | To ask us to strike meaningful comparisons across such a technological gulf is like trying to compare a theory of the origins of the universe based on observations through Galileo 's lens with one facilitated by radio telescope . |
| 5 | Thus no meteorologist would attempt to forecast the weather 2 or 3 days ahead without using a mathematical model based on observations from all around the world . |
| 6 | Conclusions about the functions of one hemisphere that had previously been based on observations of the effects of injury could be confirmed by studies that showed that the self-same functions were retained by that hemisphere after section of the callosum , but were not available to the other . |
| 7 | The analysis is based on observations of professional — parent and professional — child interactions during the assessments of thirty children referred to the Schools Psychological Service in three LEAs because they were thought to have emotional and behavioural difficulties . |
| 8 | They are based on observations of everyday experience and language use . |
| 9 | The Moral Development theory put forward by Piaget , was based on observations of children at play and clinical interviews by him . |
| 10 | The comments I made about the narrowness of Nicolson Street at the Community Centre was based on observations from Highways to the effect that it would not be possible to fit in a northbound bus lane unless there were only a single southbound lane and no bus stop . |
| 11 | That approach enabled IBM 's rapid assimilation of quality ideas , then the Peters and Waterman ‘ Managing Excellence ’ programmes ( which were , after all , based on observations of IBM to a considerable , if un-acknowledged , extent ) . |
| 12 | The following description is based on observations with a demonstration apparatus . |
| 13 | Every statement is based on observation ; every conclusion is supported by evidence ; every judgement is carefully weighed . |
| 14 | This surely is based on observation , experience , and informal experiment , not on intellectual perception of any connection between ideas . |
| 15 | Within this task , we suggest that pupils should be asked for three contrasting pieces of writing , for example a short narrative based on a personal experience , a poem , a list of some kind ( eg for a recipe ) , or a factual account based on observation . |
| 16 | The Shorter Oxford Dictionary says that the word ‘ empiric ’ means ‘ based on observation or experiment , not theory ’ . |
| 17 | They resented its reluctance to accept that the opinion of a psychologist based on test evidence was more valid than the opinion of the man in the street — or on the jury — based on observation , and they were annoyed that the court failed to recognise that the tests involved were as confidential as those carried out by any other medical practitioner . |
| 18 | It could not be accomplished on the run though I made some schematic doodles based on observation : the way , for example , drainage run-off channels bulldozed off the sides of the track echoed the pattern of the tree branches or veins on a leaf . |
| 19 | These are simple concepts based on observation and elementary logic . |
| 20 | However securely based on observation a statement may seem to be , the possibility that new theoretical advances will reveal inadequacies in that statement can not be ruled out . |
| 21 | One shows drapery-folds stacked in a way , based on observation , that becomes regular in Greek art around the middle of the second half of the century , but it is almost impossible to believe that the original date of these carvings is so late . |
| 22 | Usually associated with the work of Bachrach and Baratz , this line of argument rejects both the earlier reputational approach to community power , and also pluralist methods based on observation of decisions on key issues . |
| 23 | He allowed himself to break his rule of a language based on observation by naming ‘ eminently respirable air ’ oxygen , which means the generator of acids ; and this turned out to be a mistake . |
| 24 | Grain size analysis of fine sediments depends not on direct measurement of the particles themselves but rather upon indirect computations of diameters based on observation of the grain behaviour in fluids or the response of the fluids to displacement by the grains . |
| 25 | Bloomfield 's approach to linguistics was based on observation of the language . |
| 26 | It must be based on observation and enquiry in the field . |
| 27 | The research was based on observation and recording by volunteers of 200 plots of farmland in lowland England and Wales . |
| 28 | Once attention is focused on observation statements as forming the alleged secure basis for science , it can be seen that , contrary to the inductivists ' claim , theory of some kind must precede all observation statements and observation statements are as fallible as the theories they presuppose . |
| 29 | He objected to the stress the virtuosi laid on observation and experiment , on the grounds that it was likely to lead to atheism . |
| 30 | Earlier this century , studies of the dolphin relied on observations of animals in captivity , and interpretations of social behaviour drawn from these studies are likely to be suspect . |