Example sentences of "is base " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this month 's Edinburgh festival , Coogan is basing his entire act around four of these mysterious misfit creations : Alan Partridge the patronising sports commentator , Earnest Moss the pedantic safety officer , bad aspiring alternative comedian Duncan Thicket , and Paul Calf the slurring beer boy from suburban hell . |
| 2 | To understand this we have to see that Mill is basing his answer to one question on his answer to another . |
| 3 | Delrina is basing its pitch on the expected low cost of these modems relative to the cost of buying separate facsimile and answering machines , and the large installed base of Windows users with a single phone line who keep finding themselves talking to modems . |
| 4 | SynOptics is basing its hopes on a six-chip Asynchronous Transfer Mode chip set developed in partnership with Washington State University . |
| 5 | According to Turner , it is basing its strategy for growth on further expansion into the international arena , a necessary tactic as so many of its customers are multinationals , and require global support . |
| 6 | The ACT Financial Systems arm of ACT Group Plc , Birmingham is basing its entire strategy for future growth on the success of its Momentum object-oriented modular software for the international financial services market . |
| 7 | The state of Wisconsin is basing its appeal on the fact that intent and emotion — passion , envy , fear — are often weighed in the balance in sentencing already . |
| 8 | The cost is basing class theory on domination , like elite theorists , rather than upon Marxist theories of exploitation ( Wright , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | He is basing it on the book by Martha Zamora Frida , el pincel de la angustia . |
| 10 | Noble Metals is basing everything they do on ‘ not just satisfying but surprising and delighting our customers ’ . |
| 11 | He speaks in prose , probably because he is basing his argument on reason rather than emotion . |
| 12 | Its daring conception , ideal in the highest sense of the word , is based on the purest truth , and wrought out with the concentrated knowledge of a life , its colour is almost perfect , not one false or morbid hue in any part or line , and so modulated that every square inch of canvas is a perfect composition ; its drawing is as accurate as fearless ; the ship buoyant , bending , and full of motion ; its tones as true as they are wonderful ; and the whole picture dedicated to the most sublime of subjects and impressions … the power , majesty and deathfulness of the open , deep , illimitable sea . |
| 13 | Barton does investigate the actor 's work in a more contemporary way and the book is based on the TV series of the same name . |
| 14 | It is based on the theme of protestant liberty , which is consciously contrasted with catholic authoritarianism . |
| 15 | The initial outlay is quite low and the information here is based on using equipment and ingredients that are freely available . |
| 16 | This confidence survey is conducted among UK hotel general managers and is based on a sample of almost 100 drawn from different classes , sizes and styles of hotels geographically spread across the country . |
| 17 | This is based on the number of rooms in the hotel , not its tariff . |
| 18 | The company , called Systems 4 Control , is based at Unit 61 , Northwick Business Centre , Blockley , Morton-in-Marsh GL56 9RF . |
| 19 | The amount that you are assessed to pay is based on what you should be able to afford to take out as a loan . |
| 20 | Every statement is based on observation ; every conclusion is supported by evidence ; every judgement is carefully weighed . |
| 21 | Always the call will be for more power to the organization , so that the 1989 cry of alarm from the Police Federation conference about private security firms is based more on a fear that areas of influence are being taken from the institution than on beliefs that such groups are incompetent . |
| 22 | every anthropologist has experienced ‘ culture shock ’ ; a temporary inability to grasp and act and think in the terms of the assumptions upon which the newly entered culture is based . |
| 23 | The detective therefore has a legitimate target in the thief ( again the metaphor is based in militarism ) ; and this is currently reinforced by the politics of materialism . |
| 24 | It seems unlikely that experience can take us outside of the closed circle of experience to reveal that upon which experience — experience in general , rather than particular experience — is based . |
| 25 | Ultimately , the two variables of impinging stimulus and evoked sensation are internally rather than externally related ; for our estimate of the properties of the impinging stimulus — and the decision as to whether or not those properties ‘ justify ’ the sensation they give rise to — is based upon the norms of , necessarily subjective , experience . |
| 26 | ‘ Cellnet is a business whose success is based on innovation and quality , ’ stated Marketing Support Manager Paul Leonard . |
| 27 | The help is based on the actual community charge set in your area in 1991–92 . |
| 28 | The report is based on a University of Salford research project entitled Voicing grievances and getting redress , which is a comparative study of tenants of different types of public sector landlord . |
| 29 | All dance is based on the same principles and rules which are dictated by the anatomical capacity for movement found in the human body . |
| 30 | Although MacMillan 's choreography fur both the above ballets is based on classical technique , it in no way conforms to the old school of dance or conventional mime . |