Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] on an [noun] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If A Song to David , in which he attempted a new and regular form of the ode , was written on an upswing of creativity at the beginning of a psychotic episode , and the psalms translation made during convalescence afterwards , Jubilate Agno is particularly important because its internal dates strongly suggest it was composed during his confinement , and from day to day of his illness , during the period 27 July to 30 January 1763 , just before his release . |
| 2 | Believing that tragic greatness was founded on an exploration of a great individual , the literary institution found ways of assuring that Shakespeare 's plays observed their premises . |
| 3 | The original thinking behind conservation — those economic imperatives to be more efficient with energy and use less — was based on an outlook of steeply rising prices . |
| 4 | The survey was based on an assessment of litter and dog fouling in a 500 metres circle round the parliament building . |
| 5 | Early in his reign he realized that liberalism was unpopular with the masses , and he deliberately scorned the classes : his power , as Lord Liverpool observed from a distance , was based on an alliance of proletariat and priests against ‘ landlords ’ and middle classes . |
| 6 | Asger Jorn 's interest in folk cultures and tribal societies which lacked a notion of ‘ art ’ as a distinct intellectual practice separated from the common culture , was based on an understanding of the extent to which the spheres of art and work have become conflicting practices within bourgeois relations of production . |
| 7 | Other studies have analysed cursive words on a letter-by-letter basis ( Frishkopf and Harmon , 1961 ; Harmon 1962a ) where segmentation was based on an estimate of letter width , and letters identified by reference to stored features such as cusps , closures , retrograde strokes and so on . |
| 8 | Peres , then Finance Minister , announced that the IS500,000,000 budgeted for the settlement of Soviet Jews might not be adequate as it was based on an estimate of 40,000 new arrivals , whereas the Ministry of Immigration had estimated that up to 100,000 immigrants might arrive in 1990 . |
| 9 | The more recent survey was based on an example of 85 homes . |
| 10 | The journalistic and political inference was that children in primary classrooms are not working nearly hard enough ; generally this was based on an aggregation of the percentages for ‘ routine ’ , ‘ awaiting attention ’ and ‘ distracted ’ to produce the claim that 40 per cent of time was ‘ wasted ’ . |
| 11 | This system was based on an examination of individual courses by external academics and others drawn from the subject or professional area in question . |
| 12 | The Survey was based on an examination of the book application forms ( commonly referred to as ‘ call-slips ’ ) submitted by readers over a period of a fortnight . |
| 13 | While his brothers lived in comfort with beautiful clothes and many slaves , Hocazade was kept on an allowance of a mere one akce a day . |