Example sentences of "[be] based [adv] upon [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most contemporary studies of stratification are based either upon a Marxist or a Weberian perspective . |
| 2 | At one extreme , the ‘ transformed cladists ’ , or ‘ natural order systematists ’ , argue that classification should be based solely upon the perceived patterns of distribution of characters of organisms . |
| 3 | At Gloucester in July 1634 the judges ' proceedings were based partly upon the 800 presentments made at the swanimote held in the Forest of Dean in the previous month : 420 of these for unlawfully cutting and selling woods , 260 for illegal inclosures and other encroachments , 80 for taking the king 's game and 10 for unauthorized operation of ironworks . |
| 4 | Hailey 's reservations about Indirect Rule were based purely upon the practical consideration that in its dogmatic insistence on working only through the authentic traditional leadership it excluded other , possibly more effective , methods of securing the essential ‘ degree of acquiescence ’ in British rule . |
| 5 | Sharing accommodation with relatives on a permanent basis is not regarded as a desirable option in contemporary British culture , where the image of the normal household is based firmly upon the nuclear family : typically a married couple and their immature children , with possibly the addition of an elderly parent . |
| 6 | The claim to legitimacy of particular possession is based entirely upon the institutionalization of rights . |
| 7 | Neither the economic policy of a nation nor the political programme of a party is likely to achieve a successful dynamism if it is based solely upon the assistance of lame ducks . |
| 8 | In the Ogwo case , the decision is based solely upon the neighbour principle , the issue before the court being whether the injuries sustained by the plaintiff were foreseeable . |
| 9 | The study is based mainly upon the records of the civil courts supplemented by such papers of corporate and administrative institutions as have survived . |
| 10 | Although Spencer worked out an elaborate scheme of social evolution , in terms of the increasing scale and complexity of societies , his political sociology was based mainly upon a fairly simple distinction between ‘ militant ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , the former being characterized by the predominance of activities concerned with defence and offence ( that is , warfare ) , the latter by the predominance of activities concerned with ‘ sustentation ’ ( that is , production and trade ) . |
| 11 | Like them , it was based originally upon the household , and the household continued to have significance even after the formation of other less personal structures . |