Example sentences of "[was/were] based [prep] [art] assumption " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partnerships were based on the assumption that reasonable people working in a multitude of organizations could devise an agreed strategy for parts of urban Britain : local and central government would work in harness and would incorporate other interests — the police , the business community , voluntary groups , and so on , into a coherent administrative whole . |
| 2 | Created in Walworth Road , they were based on the assumption that it is possible to bribe one set of electors with money extracted from the pockets of another set . |
| 3 | This represents only two cases in 1990–1 , and all costings were based on the assumption that tonsillectomies took place as inpatient procedures . |
| 4 | In terms of Figure 7.5 , the rise in output from y * ; to Y 1 is the result of a series of individual decisions which were based on the assumption that , although the price of each island 's output had clearly risen to p 1 , the general price level in the rest of the economy would remain at p . |
| 5 | At school the ideal of womanhood was based on the assumptions of a different social class : woman 's life was service , the dispensation of charity , whether she was married and dependent , or earned her own living . |
| 6 | However , the American ambassador , Mr Thomas Pickering , told the council yesterday that Washington 's approval was based on the assumption that the force would take steps to halt aid for Salvadorean guerrillas . |
| 7 | More riskily , the budget announced in December was based on the assumption that the oil price would average $22 a barrel for the year ; it is not much more than $17 now . |
| 8 | In the late nineteenth century Sinhalese élites invented a racial consciousness which was based on the assumption that all who spoke Sinhala were of Aryan origin . |
| 9 | This type of generalisation , however , was based on the assumption that US union development was the norm , and only British , Swedish and German unions were included in the comparison . |
| 10 | This was based on the assumption that once supranational institutions had been set up in one economic sector , interest groups would look to that political level for the realisation of their demands , and that in time the groups would begin to appreciate the value to themselves of integration . |
| 11 | Thus the last burst of activity in the UK housing market — from the mid-Eighties to 1989 , when many of the largest mortgages were taken on — was based on the assumption that some rates would remain at or below the ten per cent threshold . |
| 12 | The belief that political equality was attained by the establishment of universal suffrage was based on the assumption , mentioned earlier , that governments were indeed sovereign over society , and that ultimately nothing could prevent a popularly elected government from carrying out its mandate . |
| 13 | They were allocated randomly to receive supportive care plus chemotherapy ( arm A ) or supportive care only ( arm B ) in the ratio of 2:1 ( which was based on the assumption of a higher refusal rate in arm B ) . |
| 14 | But this was based on the assumption that the current tax relief limit of £30,000 would be increased in line with inflation . |
| 15 | For it was based on the assumption that human beings , at least since the emergence of homo sapiens , were the same , their behaviour obeying the same uniform laws , though in different historical circumstances . |
| 16 | The Keynesian model we constructed in the last chapter was based on the assumption that both consumption and saving were directly and linearly related to current disposable income . |
| 17 | The study was based on an assumption that the maglev route would be running by 1990 . |