Example sentences of "[was/were] base [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From his learning experiences at this time Horton moved to an interest in the Danish idea of Folk Schools which were based on non-formal , largely oral , methods of learning , and which embraced both contemporary political and a cultural side to the education . |
| 2 | Both these developments were based on traditional leadership but new prospects were opened up by the formation of auxiliary military forces known in Indonesian as Pembela Tanah Air , Fatherland Defence Force , Peta for short . |
| 3 | Royal author Andrew Morton said yesterday his comments on the future friendship between Gilbey and the princess were based on hypothetical questions . |
| 4 | Royal author Andrew Morton made it clear yesterday that his comments on the future friendship between James Gilbey and the Princess were based on hypothetical questions . |
| 5 | The tests were based on European Standards , adapted to conditions in the home , and were carried out on Maples ' 100% nylon twist-pile carpet and on tiled flooring . |
| 6 | Many of the orders were based on over-optimistic plans for expansion rather than the replacement of existing aircraft . |
| 7 | In this he followed Attaingnant , who had from his earliest days been printing gaillardes et pavanes for four instruments ( 1529 ) , basses danses garnies de recoupes for the lute ( 1529 ) , basses dances , branles , pavennes and gaillardes , nearly all in four instrumental parts ( 1530 ) , and gaillardes pavennes , branles et basses dances for keyboard ( 1531 ) , at least some of which were based on polyphonic chansons . |
| 8 | The Reverend W.Audry says many of the episodes lack the authenticity of the books , which were based on real incidents on the railways.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 9 | Those at the top level had Di Tella 's confidence through a relationship of kinship or friendship and links between middle and upper management levels were based on personal relationships . |
| 10 | All the above diagnoses were based on standard criteria . |
| 11 | Some were based on ideographic signs ( real characters , so-called ) which directly expressed ‘ things ’ or notions of ‘ things ’ . |
| 12 | It appears that Moore 's observations were based on preserved specimens : he could not see the inner rows . |
| 13 | Another part ( principally the PFLP and PFLP-General Command ) felt closer to the rejectionist stance of Syria , and disliked the thought of any talks with the enemy unless they were based on equal or superior strength . |
| 14 | In the event of a discrepancy between the two techniques , decisions about the presence or absence of recurrent stones were based on oral cholecystectography rather than on ultrasonagraphy . |
| 15 | The successes of the 1980s were based on close links with individual Passenger Transport Executives which bring together the local authorities of seven major conurbations . |
| 16 | Early models of the cosmos were based on concentric spheres ( they still are in most minds ) . |
| 17 | Our high-rise flats were based on Scandinavian flats , but they build them to a much higher standard . |
| 18 | As Weber stressed , the new forms of political organisation were based on rational authority and the adoption of bureaucratic methods of administration . |
| 19 | The international economic institutions established after the Second World War ( GATT , the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank ) were based on liberal premises unacceptable to the Soviet bloc , which remained , until recently , economically almost completely isolated . |
| 20 | They were encouraged in this delusion by publicity for films like ‘ The Amityville Horror ’ and ‘ The Entity ’ which claims that these were based on true stories . |
| 21 | By implication , other approaches were based on irrational behaviour . |
| 22 | A minority believed that a large number of cases were based on minor grievances , and that complainants rushed to court in the passion of the moment . |
| 23 | Social relationships in medieval Sussex were based on military needs as much as economics , at least until the later fourteenth century . |
| 24 | These decisions were based on military and administrative factors which affected the Province as a whole . |
| 25 | Austerity measures contained in its economic recovery programme and introduced in December 1989 were based on strict financial discipline , convertibility of the dinar , free formation of prices and interest rates and a wage freeze from January to June 1990 . |
| 26 | In general , links between impoverished peasants , landlords whose rent incomes were falling and junior officers were based on common opposition to the ‘ anti-social ’ actions of the zaibatsu and their allies . |
| 27 | New metal industries also appeared which were based on scientific research , but the most revolutionary result of the marriage of science and technology was the spread of electricity . |
| 28 | These were based on different understandings of racism which apparently led to radically divergent programmes of educational reform . |
| 29 | The dependency theorists logically identified the main distinction as being between the national bourgeoisie , whose enterprises were based on local capital and the comprador bourgeoisie , whose interests were tied to foreign capital . |
| 30 | The early studies ( such as those of Lounsbury , 1954 and Goldman-Eisler , 1958 ) were based on probabilistic models of language , in which the major concern was the predictability of the next word from the word or words which had gone before . |