Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [be] [vb pp] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also points to the ecological problems that this industrialisation of farming and forestry has brought about , to the increased reliance that has to be placed on chemical pest and disease control under monocultures . |
| 2 | Although the assessment of damages often has to be based on scanty evidence , in the opinion of the Board the evidence adduced by the plaintiff as to damage in this case was inadequate to prove any damage beyond the purely nominal . |
| 3 | However , a policy of community care has to be based on hard reality , not on romantic notions of the caring community nor on an ideology favouring charges and commercial provision . |
| 4 | Pessimistic in the sense that is says people are basically nasty , and if society is to be possible , then nastiness has to be controlled in some way or other , and since human nature is anti-social , social order comes about against the grain of human nature as a rule , has to be imposed on human nature . |
| 5 | In any event , a ceasefire has to be observed on agreed front lines . |
| 6 | Owen , who describes DCE as ‘ more ambitious code , ’ says the other problem with it is that , by implication , DCE has to be tested on multi-vendor machines . |
| 7 | Naturally , with his lung problems , Arthur has to be bedded on dust-free paper and fed on Horsehage rather than hay . |
| 8 | For this to be effective each transmitter-receiver system needs to be based on varied signals or there is great confusion and you become unable to tell which ferret is where . |
| 9 | Deciding which measures to implement needs to be based on detailed knowledge of the emissions which power stations , traffic , homes and industry contribute to each pollutant . |
| 10 | You need to , it needs to be based on initial one because that 's |
| 11 | It will be clear that on any particular occasion of meaning negotiation the more familiar the schematic content or mode of communication , the less reliance needs to be placed on systemic knowledge , and vice versa . |
| 12 | More attention needs to be focused on other records or information resources that document our culture and on a range of other institutions that produce them . |
| 13 | The exercise of personal initiative also needs to be encouraged on other fronts , and this is the issue that is now considered . |
| 14 | A great deal of emphasis tends to be put on personal contacts , as though knowing a journalist personally somehow puts him or her in your pocket . |
| 15 | To twentieth century man the operation of these laws appears to be based on necessary events of great cruelty . |
| 16 | When presented in this way the proposed merger appears to be based on clear industrial logic , although it was considered by some to be partly a defensive move on the part of the companies involved ( especially Imperial , which was hoping that , by increasing its own size , it would help to reduce the chance of an unwanted takeover from a third party ) . |
| 17 | Indeed the type of ceremonial gift exchange to which we have referred seems to be based on egalitarian notions of reciprocity and sharing . |
| 18 | There are at least three kinds of validity : construct validity which refers to the degree to which the test seems to be based on psychological theory , content validity which describes how well the test measures what it is intended to measure and criterion validity which indicates its value as a predictor using as criteria other measures of relevant performance . |
| 19 | It also has to avoid appearing coercive , for the system claims to be based on spontaneous co-operation , the defining principles of corporatism being unity , order and nationalism . |
| 20 | This is the view that , because criticism works by being directed on existing knowledge claims , it follows that nothing in general can be said about criticism . |