Example sentences of "based [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , figures based upon the evidence of wills , which are the main source used in the examination of the London alderman class , may exaggerate the survival rate , because in times of plague whole families might be eliminated before any will could be drawn up , or between its drafting and the death of the testator . |
| 2 | My Lords , at a time when more and more cases involve the application of legislation which gives effect to policies that are the subject of bitter public and parliamentary controversy , it can not be too strongly emphasised that the British constitution , though largely unwritten , is firmly based upon the separation of powers ; Parliament makes the laws , the judiciary interpret them . |
| 3 | ‘ At a time when more and more cases involve the application of legislation which gives effect to policies that are the subject or bitter public and parliamentary controversy , it can not be too strongly emphasised that the British constitution , though largely unwritten , is firmly based upon the separation of powers ; Parliament makes the laws , the judiciary interpret them . |
| 4 | As in the case of an award for pain and suffering , the assessment of damages for loss of amenities is based upon the level of awards in previous cases which appear to be comparable or , failing such awards , upon " impression based of necessity in large measure on the combination of intuition and experience " : per Bridge LJ in Hughes v Goodall , a decision of the Court of Appeal on 18 February 1977 . |
| 5 | Bourdieu 's Distinction , in common with several other approaches to consumption , such as that of semiotics , is largely based upon the mapping of differences between goods on to differences between social groups , which , in the more reductionist instances , are often treated as prior social divisions unaltered by this process of signification . |
| 6 | Theoretical political economy is the study of a social economy based upon the production of commodities , i.e. the study of an unorganised social economy … as soon as we take an organised social economy , all the basic ‘ problems ’ of political economy disappear : problems of value , price , profit and so on . |
| 7 | The most important tax levied upon the people of seventeenth-century England — as far as the local and family historian is concerned — was that based upon the number of hearths or chimneys that each house contained . |
| 8 | The regional authorities in Wallonia , which were responsible for policy but dependent upon allocations ( based upon the number of pupils ) from central government , were unable to pay for such increases . |
| 9 | The project forms part of the wider Religious Education and Community Project based in the Department of Arts Education at the University of Warwick . |
| 10 | The difficulties mostly concern tests based on the antagonism of sister-senses ( i.e. senses associated with a single lexical form ) . |
| 11 | Important characteristics of expert systems are that they provide advice in problem-solving based on the knowledge of experts , facilitate learning through experience and allow the use of natural language processing . |
| 12 | The main participants were the People 's Party of Free Russia led by Rutskoi , the Democratic Party of Russia ( which thus withdrew support from the government ) and the Union of Renewal ( based on the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs ) . |
| 13 | There was of course nothing new in a patriarchal family structure based on the subordination of women and children . |
| 14 | An important class of surnames is that based on the pursuit of occupations or the holding of various civil or ecclesiastical offices . |
| 15 | He criticized in particular what he saw as the fundamental flaw in a system based on the pursuit of points : that a team was given a point before it even kicked a ball . |
| 16 | It is based on confusion between the ‘ nationality ’ of the vessels and the nationality requirements applicable to nationals of the member states and would end up by re-introducing , through the medium of rules applicable to the registration of vessels , discrimination based on the nationality of persons , the prohibition of which constitutes one of the fundamental rules of the E.E.C . |
| 17 | Although the eugenic risk ( that the child of an incestuous relationship between father — daughter or brother — sister will have congenital defects ) was known at the time and was probably a factor , most of the arguments of the reformers were based on the protection of children from sexual exploitation . |
| 18 | Positive cytology was based on the presence of cells with established characteristics of malignancy as shown in Figure 2 . |
| 19 | Good posture The traditional ( below ) and more recently proposed ( right ) stance of carnosaurs , here Tyrannosaurs rex , both based on the posture of birds . |
| 20 | There are special provisions for banks and other financial institutions , for which turnover is replaced by a calculation based on the ratio of assets to loans and for insurance companies , for which turnover is replaced by gross premiums . |
| 21 | Equally important is the distinction Marx repeatedly draws between the occurrence of small-scale ‘ domestic ’ slavery and whole societies based on the exploitation of slaves , such as was the case for Greece and Rome , and the insistence that these two cases should be kept separate . |
| 22 | In Tomlinson 's argument , this discrepancy between the marked growth of the dominant enterprises and the relatively static overall position as regards plant size is taken as throwing doubt on the notion that the growth of the dominant enterprises has been based on the exploitation of economies of scale . |
| 23 | The first voice concerns itself with the story , which is loosely based on the tradition of women weaving and chanting to the rhythms of their work . |
| 24 | Clearly , any explanation based on the idea of women 's domestic role giving them certain personality traits , like status consciousness , is unable to deal with the fact that different women behave differently . |
| 25 | The concept of structure also has its risks and its dangers , even though it appears to be based on the idea of relations as opposed to entities or determining origins ( as we saw above in the discussion of the Prague School ) . |
| 26 | Numbers are ordered according to the relationship ‘ is greater than ’ , but before children begin to use numbers and understand the basis of their order , they will encounter the notion of ordering in many other ways , based on the kind of comparisons that were mentioned in the section on sorting , such as length , weight , height and width . |
| 27 | The county council would appear to be somewhere in the middle , based on the range of views that have been submitted to this E I P . |
| 28 | This approach was , however , consciously supressed thereafter , and to some degree neutralised , by an approach based on the history of ideas , the purpose being , of course , to avoid unwelcome attention on the part of the authorities towards the Warburg Library and the University 's Art History Department with its predominantly Jewish staff . |
| 29 | It was based on the work of academics and consultants whose methods offered practical solutions to the problems created by jobs designed in accordance with ‘ scientific management ’ principles . |
| 30 | It seems clear then that an antitrust policy based on the behaviour of firms , in particular on whether or not this is collusive , could come to different conclusions to one which was based upon appraisal of the inefficiency and extent of excess profits associated with the market outcome . |