Example sentences of "is base [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The DPN-100 is based on wide area data network systems which offer the user interconnection with multi-vendor data processing developments , including high-speed point-to-point interconnection .
2 Much of this belief is soundly based in experience but part of it is based on wishful thinking .
3 The other is that is based on middle class experience .
4 Source : This case study is based on Industrial Relations Review and Report , No. 348 , July 1985 .
5 Pricing starts at $16,000 and is based on specific system configuration capacity .
6 At the centre of each is a new division of labour , a new structure of the labour process , which is based on technical innovations , especially computerization .
7 Whether the unit utilises a staff deployment system which is based on internal rotation or a separate night staffing , there will he an established shift system .
8 This movie-drama is based on actual events and stars James Farentino as Lt Ray Wiltern , head of the Los Angeles Police Department 's finest undercover narcotics squad .
9 Their Botanomancy range is based on elementary herbalism and offers top to toe treats such as Smaragadine , £4.75/500ml , a shower gel made of nettles , roses , peppermint and orange peel , and Fagner 's , £3.25/200ml , a foot lotion perfumed with violets .
10 He says the development is based on advanced new technology which he declines to name but promises to show in July at the Sun Expo in Anaheim , California .
11 The medium obtained by the workers in California is based on oleic acid .
12 The F-14 is based on elderly technology , and it would be extremely expensive to produce a workable bomber from it , something on the order of $50m a copy .
13 The diagnosis of primary sclerosing cholangitis is based on typical clinical , histological , and radiological features .
14 Beyond that it will have authority regarding other issues which is based on other considerations , such as superior expertise , economy of effort , immunity from temptations and blackmail .
15 The UBR is based on new Inland Revenue valuations of commercial Rate properties undertaken in 1988 .
16 As Family Development Nurses , we are still working within a system which is based on uniform structures and procedures which may not allow for the flexibility of approach , or the necessary degree of autonomy which is needed , to be always relevant to the needs of each individual or family .
17 Almost anything that is going to be done in the future concerned with energy storage , energy conversion erm any new technology , is based on inorganic chemistry .
18 This calculation is based on various factors , such as the number of school children , miles of roads to be maintained , police and fire service requirements , etc. in each local authority .
19 Neurotics may appear to be concerned for others , but this is based on unconscious hostility towards someone , so that their concern that someone may die , or fall very ill unless some particular action of their own is done or not done , really masks an unconscious wish for their death : ‘ … the original wish that the loved person may die is replaced by a fear that he may die ’ .
20 The bedrock aspirations these educators have had in common , as far as early childhood educational opportunities are concerned , are expressed in a recently published book which is based on contemporary research and which shows the continuing aspiration for a comprehensive preschool service :
21 A and B might well have features in common from the outset ( the c elements in the figure ) and these will produce primary generalization — training on A will give associative strength to stimulus elements that are present also in B. The X representation functions in just the same way as the c elements in producing generalization except for the fact that the ability of A and B to activate X is based on prior conditioning .
22 They say the survey is inaccurate because it is based on incorrect figures that the Prime Minister gave to parliament this year .
23 This valuation is based on quoted companies of a broadly comparable nature to [ name ] of [ specify ] times historic earnings and [ specify ] times prospective earnings .
24 ‘ The IS-LM model is based on comparative static analysis and ignores the dynamic processes of a modern economy . ’
25 When advising an unmarried father it is important to note that party status is based on parental responsibility and not paternity .
26 The analysis is based on econometric modelling and involves both the estimation of the determinants of labour market behaviour and the use of such estimates for stimulating the impact of policy changes .
27 ‘ I do n't know if it should be that important if everything we do is based on good sound scientific principles , because if people perhaps in the same industry are situated in different places in the estuary , y'know , if one was to point the finger at the other and say ‘ But you allow him to discharge such and such and you only let us do this ’ , then we should be able to turn round and say , ‘ Ah yes , but you 're discharging in a different place and the river quality in this different place needs different treatment . ’
28 Planning is based on good information and the internal market provides better information about GP , district and patient preferences .
29 Society is based on consensual values , but conformity is achieved through social integration rather than individual choice .
30 Sociologists have either to accept a thoroughly verificationist approach to both Freud and to many of the founders of sociology , or to be inconsistent and accept a judgement made by psychologists about Freud which is based on logical and philosophical assumptions which , if applied to Max Weber or Èmile Durkheim or Marx , would lead to these thinkers being likewise dismissed as unscientific .
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