Example sentences of "was based [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 There was also a link through to Archie McIndoe , one of the finest plastic surgeons of his day , who was based at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead , where badly burned pilots were sent for treatment .
2 The pub has a bar commemorating No 10 Squadron , which was based at the aerodrome .
3 A provisional government had been formed under Alexander Kerensky and the Soviet and was based at the Winter Palace .
4 The third project in the programme , known as LAMP ( Lower Attainers Mathematics Project ) was based at the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education , with the aim of developing a curriculum in accordance with the principles of the Cockcroft Report .
5 He moved to Louth in 1938 and was based at the maltings on Leakes Row .
6 my Lord if , if if it was , if that was based upon illegal business we would say it was invalid , if it was based at the end of the day upon business that we would of erm permitted to have been written then we would n't have no our defence to it
7 I knew I would n't play her as a wimp and the whole audition was based on the speech where she goes mad — the flowers , rosemary for remembrance and the whole bit .
8 The party structure followed was based on the Irish civil war antagonism of 1922–3 , with the pro-Treaty party more or less in power until the anti-Treaty party entered politics in 1930 .
9 He should remember that most ballet music until that of Tchaikovsky was based on the same time signatures , tempi and phrasing as that of fashionable court and , later , social dances i.e. waltzes , polkas , galops , minuets , gavottes , mazurkas and so on .
10 Yet the above ballets are different again from de Valois ' The Rake 's Progress , which was based on the reality of Hogarth 's pictures .
11 Kleinwort said yesterday the deal price was based on the consolidated net assets of KBA on 31 August , and was still subject to final adjustment .
12 Much of the electoral strength of the Thatcher government was based on the claim that ‘ there was no alternative ’ .
13 Marx 's theory of change was based on the growing contradiction that arose in society between the technological side of production and the social system with which it was associated .
14 William Assheton 's attitude to the design of the conversion was based on the view that although the building might function as a house , it ought still to be recognisable as a church .
15 However , the American ambassador , Mr Thomas Pickering , told the council yesterday that Washington 's approval was based on the assumption that the force would take steps to halt aid for Salvadorean guerrillas .
16 They said Mr Wicks 's decision was based on the flawed findings that the delay was justifiable and there was no prejudice .
17 More riskily , the budget announced in December was based on the assumption that the oil price would average $22 a barrel for the year ; it is not much more than $17 now .
18 Thom 's theoretical analysis was based on the work of S.R. Broadbent , a statistician whose quantum hypothesis allows the extent to which data are quantised to be assessed objectively .
19 Paisley 's religious appeal was based on the claim that orthodox Protestant beliefs were being ‘ downgraded ’ and that , at the same time , liberal Protestants were actively seeking greater harmony with other apostate denominations , in particular the old enemy of Rome .
20 Others , however , retained their traditional belief : T. M. Morris declared in his 1893 Presidential Address to the Baptist Union that the ‘ fashion of the present day ’ was to ‘ exaggerate the importance and power of circumstances ’ whereas Christianity was based on the individual .
21 The optimistic survey , carried out by Dun & Bradstreet , the business information company , was based on the views of more than 1,900 managing directors .
22 Her death shocked her parents , Mary and Liam , and the surgeons whose meticulous planning at the London Hospital for Sick Children was based on the expectation that both twins would survive .
23 Mr Ashdown has always been careful to stress his belief that the revival of the party would require at least two general elections and his campaign was based on the need for long-term growth rather than on hope in the statistical quirk of a hung parliament .
24 The practice then was based on the Poor Law 's philosophy of restricting or stopping altogether contact between children in public or voluntary care and their parents because , it was argued , the latter were a bad influence on the children ( Checkland and Checkland , 1974 ) .
25 The second generation of nuclear power stations , heavily promoted by the UKAEA , was based on the Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor ( AGR ) .
26 Days Mill was based on the site of a much older and smaller mill , probably built some time during the 16th or 17th centuries .
27 His tale was based on the Camus essay , ‘ The Myth of Sisyphus ’ which demonstrates man 's ‘ dignity is his return down the mountain after pushing up the stone ’ .
28 When Husayn ceded sovereignty over the West Bank in July 1988 , UNLU publicly warned the leadership ‘ the PLO outside the occupied territories should not ‘ fill the gap ’ left by Jordan by duplicating its work , which was based on the principle of patronage through corruption .
29 In fact it was the earliest in Bohemia and was based on the column erected in Munich by Elector Maximilian I to commemorate the victory of the Battle of the White Mountain .
30 Consequently , their calendar was based on the moon .
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