Example sentences of "was based [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he was based at a school governed by the Church of England , then the Catechism would have to be recited , and some examination by a priest would be necessary . |
| 2 | Reductions take into account all the chargepayers in a property whereas previously transitional relief was based on a maximum of two charges . |
| 3 | Such romantic stories and ballads inspired many nineteenth-century ballets , directly or indirectly , from Petipa 's Raymonda , Massine 's Symphonie Fantastique and Lenau 's Don Juan ( to the tone poem by Strauss which was later to inspire an Ashton ballet ) to La Sonnambula ( Balanchine 's ballet based on Bellini 's opera which was based on a Walter Scott novel , see page 33 ) . |
| 4 | In testimony before a US congressional committee earlier this week , the machinists ' union said the takeover was based on a ‘ ludicrous ’ business plan , and threatened an extended campaign to block the deal . |
| 5 | To the extent that her position was based on a reputation as a creative world leader or participant in great events , it was a partial deception . |
| 6 | It had no sharps or flats and was based on a six-line stave — instead of the five-line one which is usual for musical notation . |
| 7 | The similarly complex system developed by the waTengo was based on a pattern in which grass , weeds and crop refuse were composted in Pits which were retained in both cropping and fallow periods . |
| 8 | For Marx and Engels feudalism was based on a kind of dispersed slavery — serfdom — and therefore was really not all that different from the social system of the ancient city states . |
| 9 | He did not immediately contemplate any drastic change in his filmmaking aesthetic , since his first Hollywood picture , Rebecca ( 1940 ) , was based on a British book and used British actors , and it was some time before he made a completely American picture . |
| 10 | The IVL report was based on a sample of 1,854 students , or one in 14 of the 14,000 who graduated this year . |
| 11 | The IVL report was based on a sample of 1,854 students , or one in 14 of the 14,000 who graduated this year . |
| 12 | ‘ Our conclusion was based on a ( spoken presentation ) by people who had already decided that Kent Opera would lose its subsidy . ’ |
| 13 | The stirring sea shanty , he says , was based on a traditional tune . |
| 14 | The court 's decision was based on a finding that M Touvier had not acted in the context of a ‘ concerted plan of extermination ’ by the state . |
| 15 | Initially , the quota system was based on a simple two-element formula . |
| 16 | The report published in Annals of Internal Medicine ( 1 January 1992 ) was based on a pilot study of 56 patients by Washington 's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases . |
| 17 | To argue that much of the work of philosophers like Aristotle or theologians like Aquinas was based on a simple grammatical error is quite unfair . |
| 18 | The survey was based on a sample of 2,000 interviews . |
| 19 | The libretto for the opera , Idomeneo , was based on a French text by Antoine Danchet which had been performed in Paris in 1712 with music by Andre Campra . |
| 20 | This was based on a revival of Plato 's ideas and so is called Neoplatonism . |
| 21 | Chapman 's handling of players was based on a calculated appraisal of each man 's temperament , and in Hulme 's case he obviously considered that a sharp rebuff and a spell in the third team would boost his determination to improve his game . |
| 22 | The first book , A Plea for the Faithful Restoration of our Ancient Churches , was based on a lecture that he had given and came out in 1850 . |
| 23 | This strategy was based on a number of key objectives . |
| 24 | And in London , where manufacturing industry and trade union strength have all but disappeared , the radicalism of the ‘ new urban left ’ was based on a coalition between white-collar unions and civil organizations built up outside work . |
| 25 | The Poles replied that the design was based on a painting by the Dutch artist Van Der Block dating from about 1608 , that the original painting hung in the Danzig Main Town Hall in a room which the Nazis used for frequent social and political meetings . |
| 26 | The salvation it proposed was based on a reduction in the amount of first-class cricket to a 16-match one-day competition without over limitation , a reduction in county staffs and the involvement and use of part time cricketers . |
| 27 | I was based on a big estate where there were extensive herds of grazing cattle . |
| 28 | The selection was based on a number of advantages such as : |
| 29 | After the success of Jean de Florette , which was based on a novel by Marcel Pagnol , here is another dramatisation of one of his charming and sentimental takes of friendship in Provence . |
| 30 | Known as composite longwall working , it was based on a self-selected group of forty-one men , who allocated themselves to tasks and shifts and received a comprehensive payment on a common note ( Trist et al. 1963 , 77 ) . |