Example sentences of "[conj] it is based " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the war of words between the two largest republics of the former Soviet Union reaching dangerous levels , Mr Yeltsin 's deputy , Mr Alexander Rutskoy , warned that if Kiev pressed its claims on the fleet , Russia would re-examine the status of the Crimean peninsula , where it is based . |
| 2 | With the war of words between the two largest republics of the former Soviet Union reaching dangerous levels , Mr Yeltsin 's deputy , Mr Alexander Rutskoy , warned that if Kiev pressed its claims on the fleet , Russia would re-examine the status of the Crimean peninsula , where it is based . |
| 3 | However , the expertise it has developed serves a much wider geographical area than the West Midlands , where it is based . |
| 4 | Although it is based on a mudane Chrysler Concorde saloon , the two-seater version looks like it has been driven straight off the set of ‘ American Graffiti ’ . |
| 5 | This is the fact that it is based on what has appeared to be a uniquely simple fuel , and one whose exploitation could avoid dependence on a variety of other uncertain choices . |
| 6 | The most obvious is that it helps you prepare your position so that it is based on facts rather than speculation or wishful thinking . |
| 7 | I believe that this trend will spread and that it is based on very sound educational grounds . |
| 8 | The reason is that it is based , not on discernible facts , but on stories and writings that have been created by man himself in an era of his history obtaining long before he had learned that , if he were so minded , he could use his intellectual power to establish facts on which to build the structure , not only of his religion , but of the whole of his society . |
| 9 | The particular value of task-centred work is that it is based on an intention to form an agreement or contract between the client and the worker , thus freeing the client from the burden of always being a grateful recipient . |
| 10 | As we have seen , Strawson 's analysis gains its plausibility from the fact that it is based on an appeal to our everyday view of ourselves , which is offered as an a priori reason for adopting an individualist approach . |
| 11 | For the last ten years or so , feminist commentators on social policy have remarked upon two particular features of the British social security system : first , that it is based on clear and consistent views about the nature of marriage and the economic and social relationship between husbands and wives ( Land and Parker , 1978 ; O'Donovan , 1979 ) ; and secondly , despite considerable changes in the position of women in society since the principles of the modern social security system were laid out in the Beveridge Report ( Beveridge , 1942 ) and consolidated in post-war legislation , the system itself and its principles have remained obstinately impervious to change ( Land , 1975 ) . |
| 12 | The real merit in this suggestion is that it is based upon ( in principle ) easily observed magnitudes those calculating the bonus need know only about price , output and cost levels in each period ; they do not need to estimate either demand or cost functions . |
| 13 | There is moreover a further difficulty with the thesis which is that it is based upon a dichotomy between fact and value which is hard to sustain . |
| 14 | We should also note that it is based on certain assumptions , for example it is assumed that those who have some reason to form a pressure group will , in an open society , do so , and that the degree of governmental response will depend on the degree of pressure the group is able to exert , and that this is directly related to the group 's importance to the community . |
| 15 | It is not within the scope of this book to enter into a detailed explanation of the technique of the horn , but the fact should be firmly grasped that it is based on the possibility of producing by means of varying embouchure the upper partials of the harmonic series derived from a fundamental note , the pitch of which depends on the length of the tube . |
| 16 | The problem with this approach however is that it is based on opportunism rather than commitment . |
| 17 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is based on the Labour party 's ideological dislike of people who are not wholly dependent on the state ? |
| 18 | We are told that federalism means different things to different people , that it is a benign arrangement which does not centralise but pushes power downwards to the people and the regions and that it is based on subsidiarity . |
| 19 | Efforts will be made to ensure that it is based on state-of-the-art econometric techniques and on strong and , where appropriate , innovative theoretical underpinnings . |
| 20 | THERE have been a number of articles and letters published recently about North-East drift-net fishery for salmon , which suggest that the Government 's proposal to phase out this fishery is unreasonable and that it is based on political expediency under pressure from owners of rod fisheries . |
| 21 | The basic failure is perceived particularly acutely in the social welfare professions , and it is based upon a wide range of features such as the failure of some services actually to deliver the goods promised , failures of responsibility and neutrality , the loss of the service ideal and , in extreme cases , the disabling effects upon clients . |
| 22 | In other words it is a selfish conception and it is based on the individual 's own experience . |
| 23 | Apart from being well written and a pleasure to read the overall feeling of this book is that the Author has a great deal of enthusiasm and knowledge about his subject , and it is based on personal experience . |
| 24 | There is only one Animal Welfare Centre between Shetland and Inverness and it is based in Caithness . |
| 25 | The plan is in the form of a Greek cross with arms of equal length and it is based upon the design of the famous Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople which had been begun by Constantine and rebuilt by Justinian but which was destroyed in 1463 . |
| 26 | There 's another aspect to what we do , and that is that I think we are part of a very powerful developing movement in education , and it is based on the concept that education should not stop with the terminal rituals of school and college , and that education should be as much part of life , wanting to know , to find out , to get to grips with the body of information and knowledge that 's available in society . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | However , if the old test is obviously defective — for example , if it is based on out-of-date linguistic theories and thus lacks construct validity — this measure of concurrent validity will not be very meaningful . |
| 29 | They in fact shade into each other , even more obviously so where the distinction is between different forms of literate practice ; and the distinction , if it is based on supposed differences in cognitive processes , in ‘ logic ’ and the development of ‘ science ’ , is open to the criticisms that Goody himself , along with Lévi-Strauss and others , levels against the theory of a ‘ great divide ’ . |
| 30 | A refusal is only effective within its true scope and is vitiated if it is based upon false assumptions . |