Example sentences of "is based " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is based on the theme of protestant liberty , which is consciously contrasted with catholic authoritarianism . |
| 4 | The initial outlay is quite low and the information here is based on using equipment and ingredients that are freely available . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is based on the number of rooms in the hotel , not its tariff . |
| 7 | The company , called Systems 4 Control , is based at Unit 61 , Northwick Business Centre , Blockley , Morton-in-Marsh GL56 9RF . |
| 8 | The amount that you are assessed to pay is based on what you should be able to afford to take out as a loan . |
| 9 | Every statement is based on observation ; every conclusion is supported by evidence ; every judgement is carefully weighed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Cellnet is a business whose success is based on innovation and quality , ’ stated Marketing Support Manager Paul Leonard . |
| 16 | The help is based on the actual community charge set in your area in 1991–92 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All dance is based on the same principles and rules which are dictated by the anatomical capacity for movement found in the human body . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A National Ballet is one which is based firstly on the traditional stories , dance , music and customs of a particular country and/or secondly on the atmosphere , texture and typical life of a country . |
| 21 | It is , however , easy to recognise that the choreography for The Three-Cornered Hat has greater authenticity because it is based on the folk and flamenco dance Massine had studied in Spain . |
| 22 | The whole performance is based on the classical vocabulary of steps shorn of every convention so that he can go ‘ swifter than an arrow from an archer 's bow ’ . |
| 23 | Even though the boys and girls are figments of Robbins ' imagination , their brief encounter is based in reality even to the introduction of popular dance steps and stylistic elements current during the 1939–45 war . |
| 24 | The placement of the bolts by the Crowden Outdoor Centre , which is based just below the quarry , follows private negotiations between the landowner , North West Water , and Crowden Outdoor Centre , which is run by Peter Noble . |
| 25 | Their assumption that ‘ he knows what he has done wrong ’ is based on the fact that Rover is slinking along the floor with its head and tail down looking for all the world like a naughty school boy who 's just broken the headmaster 's window . |
| 26 | As with large tracts of The Possessed this is in effect third-person narrative , recalling the notebook assurance that whether ‘ my ’ story is based on hard facts or has simply been made up , it is all ‘ true ’ . |
| 27 | Tallis sets himself the task of showing that much of the structuralist and poststructuralist enterprise is based on a misreading of Saussure . |
| 28 | He further argues that Derrida 's fundamental claim that speech is really writing , and that writing is prior to speech , is based on a redefinition of terms , and that by such methods one could prove anything , that the rich are really poor , that the true is really false , and so on . |
| 29 | It is based on poems by a woman ( apparently her sister ) who became disabled by a viral disease . |
| 30 | But Sheikh Deedat , who is based in South Africa , avoided a straight answer when asked if Mr Rushdie should be killed . |