Example sentences of "be base [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're based on simple qualitative calculus of what would happen if natural selection operated this way . |
| 2 | It says they 're based on actual interviews with the women involved and that some additional parts have been written to show how they are in fact involved in a global chain . |
| 3 | So of course they 're based on national figures . |
| 4 | There did exist the small Northern Ireland Labour Party which disappeared after the fall of Stormont ; but it had been based on industrial workers , particularly in the shipyards , and remained much smaller in size than its Southern counterpart . |
| 5 | This was the evidence which Marx and Engels required in order to show that society has not always been based on private property held by isolated nuclear families . |
| 6 | Usually such inferences have been based on quantitative analyses of single variables — nearly always phonological variables , such as the incidence of postvocalic /r/ in New York speech ( Labov 1966 ) . |
| 7 | I was no closer to knowing the selection procedure , as my conversations about this with the other recruits had been based on mere speculation and gossip . |
| 8 | The resolution said that the campaign of forced assimilation waged against the ethnic-Turkish minority since 1984 had been based on arbitrary and autocratic decisions which had flagrantly violated Bulgaria 's Constitution and international treaty commitments and had eroded national unity . |
| 9 | The plans had been based on over-optimistic assumptions of the potential growth of the economy and hence of revenue . |
| 10 | Indeed , the happiness of many marriages may in part have been based on mutual sexual satisfaction . |
| 11 | There is a long history in the use of case management within rehabilitation services in North America and these have usually been based on psychosocial models in psychiatric rehabilitation . |
| 12 | To begin with , it would have been based on absolute desperation . |
| 13 | It seems to have been based on real understanding , but little real intimacy . |
| 14 | Wholesale reform of language to eliminate sexism has proved more difficult , however ; particularly when it has been based on simplistic accounts of what language is and how it works . |
| 15 | With no exceptions these results have been based on poorly controlled trials which , although they do not show that herpes vaccines do n't work , certainly do not prove that they do . |
| 16 | Waddington stated in a written parliamentary reply on April 4 , 1990 , that following his study of such documents he had concluded that the removal had been based on straightforward facts . |
| 17 | Diagnosis had been based on typical clinical features , family history , increased sweat chloride concentration , and genetic analysis ( or any combination of these features ) . |
| 18 | This decision , to cease teacher training at the Polytechnic while allowing it to continue at West Glamorgan seems to have been based on political rather than educational considerations . |
| 19 | Some voices of the past may have been based on shaky techniques , or their use transgressed today 's views about musical taste , but many others still shatter the sense by their beauty , magnificence and sheer character in the vocalisation . |
| 20 | These were involved because in a capitalist market economy , the organization of economic activity has historically been based on numerous fragmented units , each seeking to operate as profitably as possible , whilst paying only the costs which it is impossible to avoid . |
| 21 | His pamphlet Nothing gained by overcrowding ! ( 1912 ) may have been based on questionable statistics , but the approach and general philosophy proved increasingly acceptable to informed opinion . |
| 22 | Available information about the distribution of various macrophage subsets in the human gut ( Table VII ) has mostly been based on single immunohistochemical staining in serial tissue sections , rendering evaluation of multiple marker expression difficult or impossible . |
| 23 | The financial information in the group 's accounts relating to Ferromet Resources Inc and its subsidiaries has been based on unaudited management accounts for 1991 . |
| 24 | For the past 30 years almost all economic analysis of decision making in situations of risk and uncertainty has been based on expected utility theory . |
| 25 | Moreover , for large numbers of individuals the new per capita charge represented a considerable increase over their equivalent share of the rates which had hitherto been based on notional values of the homes which they occupied . |
| 26 | But yesterday Richard Collin , director of central services with the borough council , said the calculations had been based on unreliable assumptions as to the rate of collection and administration costs . |
| 27 | The most fruitful studies have been based on calculated energy levels . |
| 28 | Although most descriptive grammars have been based on written documents , a few , such as that by Palmer ( 1965 ) , and that of the français fondamental , have been based on the spoken forms of the language . |
| 29 | The success of Britain ‘ s efforts within Europe can therefore largely be judged in terms of the rate at which trade has expanded between Member States , the extent to which this has been based on free and fair competition , and on whether there has been a significant increase in trade between countries of the EEC and the world outside . |
| 30 | Before rising population and inflating prices for necessaries began to increase the burden on rate-payers from the last third of the century , the relief of the village and small-town poor seems to have been based on humane assessment of need and sufficient relief . |