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

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1 Once again the theology on which her understanding of her own life was clearly based is one that is not deeply sympathetic to us now ; nonetheless it was a deeply social , corporate and incarnational way of seeing the world .
2 Often the information on which policies are based is too generalised , or taken from too broad a data base , to allow administrators to respond to local conditions .
3 As chs. 8 and 14 will make clear , the very notion of self-interest on which that argument is based is greatly flawed .
4 Their actual meaning is unclear because the definition of the population on which they are based is ambiguous .
5 Urquhart says the board 's new figures can not be assessed until the research on which it is based is published in full .
6 If the principle on which morality is based is referred to as ‘ acting for the sake of duty ’ ( Kant ) , then that would be a way of explaining the reason a man might have for acting morally .
7 ‘ The kind of conversion on which people movements are based is the root of the difficulty .
8 On the other hand , the nature of the ‘ common bond ’ on which they are based is such that members and potential members of a credit union can become aware of the cost advantages in the normal course of their day-to-day contact with friends , neighbours or workmates .
9 He wrote , with reference to the local sign theories of Lotze and Wundt : ‘ The thought upon which this whole theory is based is that the impressions must all be of a conscious nature .
10 The model on which GCSE is based is the more traditional one of moderation of individual pupil scripts .
11 AENS is based is UCAN 's Hong Kong office .
12 The research on which this book is based is concerned both with examining the concrete experiences of male and female students , and with the meanings students attach to those experiences .
13 The second principal source of primary data on which a study of lexical semantics can be based is furnished by intuitive semantic judgements by native speakers of linguistic materials of one kind or another .
14 If the factual situation falls outside the scope of the refusal or if the assumption upon which it is based is falsified , the refusal ceases to be effective .
15 v. Kantner ( Case 38/81 ) [ 1982 ] E.C.R. 825 the Court of Justice held that a plaintiff may invoke the jurisdiction of the courts of the place of performance of a contract in accordance with article 5(1) even where the existence of the contract on which the claim is based is in dispute between the parties .
16 The proposed design activity on which this is based is shown in Figure 1.9 .
17 The number of equity shares in issue on which the calculation is based is 34,320,000 ( 1990 — 34,320,000 ) .
18 Physical access to the building where Leisure Choice is based is difficult ; other buildings have had to be used for our meetings .
19 The methodological criterion on which our own study must be based is the following ; that the supremacy of a social group manifests itself in two ways , as ‘ domination ’ and as ‘ intellectual and moral leadership ’ .
20 On the other hand , the chanson on which it is based is really in C major with a number of V-I and I-V cadences ( see Ex. 57 ) .
21 The extent of the obligation to state the reasons on which a legislative measure is based is not defined once and for all but must be determined on the basis of the particular facts of each case .
22 placement based is n't it ?
23 The basic premise upon which much of this work is based is most succinctly expressed by William Downes : While Downes 's statement alludes to an unfashionable humanist notion of dramatic character , it does provide us with a valuable starting point for the present discussion .
24 Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event .
25 ( WES ) But those who 've worked with conductive education say it 's helped hundreds of families , and that the research on which the report is based is flawed .
26 that 's a sort of erm water based is n't it ?
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