Example sentences of "[was/were] based upon [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such judgements were based upon a willingness to comply to the full with the turning of sports into a ‘ media event ’ . |
| 2 | In a functional sense , spillover was founded on the belief that contemporary economies were based upon a tangle of interrelated sectors . |
| 3 | The picture was based upon a construction site in the school grounds and included a complex arrangement of steps . |
| 4 | Chiles 's victory was particularly impressive in that it was based upon a campaign which included the explicit rejection of negative campaigning tactics — despite personal attacks upon him by his opponents — and the renunciation of " money politics " in the form of a refusal to accept campaign contributions greater that $100 . |
| 5 | The decision to use Strasbourg as a point of departure for this attempt was based upon a calculation that the strong army garrison in the frontier city would respond to the name of Napoleon , but in fact the whole affair was a disaster and ended in ridicule with the Prince 's arrest . |
| 6 | Its third principle , which was based upon a draft by the imperialist Churchill rather than the anti-colonialist Roosevelt , read : |
| 7 | Was it possible that the quest for the historical Jesus , of which Bethune-Baker was a leading representative , was based upon an illusion about the nature of the sources which were used ? |
| 8 | The Minister 's choice was based upon an examination of the Registers of Exchequer , by which it appeared ‘ that the owners of much of the greater part of the property in the district interest themselves for Mr. Lapslie ’ , who accordingly obtained the presentation regardless of the fact that two of Lapslie 's supporters were not members of the Church of Scotland . |
| 9 | tried to inaugurate a new concept of citizenship which would link men of different social classes , The concept was based upon the notion that there was a good common to members of all classes , a goal the existence of which could be established from German Idealist metaphysics and which could be made visible in actual measures of educational reform and social welfare . |
| 10 | The Act was based upon the notion of freedom of contract , i.e. that the parties were free to make their contract upon whatever terms they pleased . |
| 11 | In these schools and classrooms the more traditional approaches to teaching and learning were rejected , not because they were traditional but because their teachers came to realise that through a programme of learning which was based upon the qualities and gifts of each child , higher standards could be achieved . |
| 12 | Early work on spatial languages was based upon the principles of spatial inference and retrieval , and was not specifically digitally based ( McDermott 1980 ) . |
| 13 | An extremely detailed investigation was based upon the Hubbard Brook forest of New Hampshire , USA where the pathways of chemical elements were studied under natural conditions and then after deforestation the biogeochemical cycles were investigated again and during subsequent recovery ( Likens et al . , |
| 14 | Divorce of this kind was first introduced into English law by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 , and from then until 1969 it was based upon the doctrine that some matrimonial offence ( such as adultery or desertion ) must have been committed by one spouse before the other could obtain relief . |
| 15 | Writing subsequently and at greater length , Butenko set out a vision of the Soviet future that was based upon the concept of ‘ socialist popular self-management ’ and which involved the abolition of the nomenklatura appointments system and a wide-ranging electoral reform . |
| 16 | The appeal was based upon the consideration that Harris could have suffered foetal brain damage as a result of alcohol abuse by his mother , or from blows inflicted by his father who had tried to abort the foetus , but had succeeded only in causing it to be born three months prematurely . |
| 17 | However , it was based upon the Rasch model , which , as we shall see later , has come under substantial criticism . |
| 18 | The willingness of the Western democracies , led by the USA , to endorse Ceauşescu 's rule was based upon the view that his regime was pursuing independence from Moscow and that such a ‘ nationalist ’ line must involve domestic reform and liberalization . |
| 19 | The structure of the book was based upon the distinction of four types of medium-scale systems each showing distinct but complementary properties and giving a progressive sequence to higher levels of integration and sophistication . |
| 20 | Popular political power was based upon the recognition of the equal status of all citizens before the law , and democracy was also the guarantee that equality would be maintained . |
| 21 | In addition much of her extra-European influence was based upon the confidence and expertise of local British personnel rather than on physical power . |
| 22 | It was based upon the designs of S. Sophia in Kiev and is , therefore , more elaborate in plan than is usual in this region . |