Example sentences of "based on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most experts say that the happiest — and longest — relationships are based on close friendship and shared interests , not just strong feelings . |
| 2 | Hew was convicted on the basis of confessions he had made under torture and because he had read The Dogs of War , a novel about a coup in an imaginary country widely thought to be based on Equatorial Guinea . |
| 3 | ‘ It comes down to applying a judgement based on the background knowledge we 've acquired from 30 years of monitoring and reporting human rights ’ . |
| 4 | The number of UK groups reached 300 in the early 1980s and has remained around that level ever since — groups of very high quality and certainly not based on ‘ ephemeral enthusiasms ’ ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Newspaper profiles are quite likely to be based on interviews , which have an immediate attraction , though a reader will naturally be wary about how accurately the interview may have been recorded . |
| 7 | The nuggets of real criticism are those views which are evidently based on personal reactions and responses . |
| 8 | Parsons outlines five stages of cognition , which he has based on the scientific work of Kohlberg . |
| 9 | They are words that can be made to mean different things , and are applicable as such to the story of Jaromil 's poetic progress from private to public , which can also be recognised as a simultaneity of the two , based on an enduring self-engrossment . |
| 10 | It purports to be based on the recollections of courtiers and retainers hunted up after the fall : but I have heard it suggested that the author did not take to the Picador edition 's cover display of a picture of Haile Selassie , perhaps on the grounds of a misleading particularity . |
| 11 | And even Jenny , who is meant to be a mistress of plain speech , is allowed , in this comparatively austere book , a quiet felicity of phrase based on the justice of her perceptions . |
| 12 | These fees are quite distinct from the money you will need for living , travelling , buying books , etc. , which will probably account for a further £3500 to £5000 ( these figures are based on 1989/90 standards ) . |
| 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 | Orinthia is an expansive , richly styled character , based on the exotic personality of actress Mrs Patrick Campbell . |
| 15 | I have always considered drama training to be based on simple precepts , for acting is not a complicated art . |
| 16 | I knew I would n't play her as a wimp and the whole audition was based on the speech where she goes mad — the flowers , rosemary for remembrance and the whole bit . |
| 17 | I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept . |
| 18 | The party structure followed was based on the Irish civil war antagonism of 1922–3 , with the pro-Treaty party more or less in power until the anti-Treaty party entered politics in 1930 . |
| 19 | Equally , Southern catholic nationalists prefer a unified Irish state , though a majority of 54 per cent would accept a federal one based on the present two state units . |
| 20 | Both sides are based on capitalist activity and both governments have followed modernization rather than self-development strategies since the 1960s More particularly , despite some continuing differentiation in industrial specialisms , such as the declining presence of heavy engineering in Ulster , the types of industrial activity are increasingly similar as are the economic and unemployment problems , population growth , and productivity , with the probability of higher deficits in the North ( FitzGerald 1972 : 63–85 ; New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : ii . |
| 21 | The belief is still popular that such a race exists , rather than there merely being a cultural group based on nationalist , republican , and catholic religious sentiment . |
| 22 | It is important to note that the political party system in the Republic of Ireland is largely based on the divisions in the national-popular consciousness which occurred at the time of the Irish civil war . |
| 23 | The emergence of a new pro-capitalist party in the South from the end of 1985 , the Progressive Democratic Party , might show the extent to which political divisions based on the treaty and within the nationalist component of hegemony may have become problematic , to be partially replaced by an even more explicit concern with increasing the popular wealth and prosperity . |
| 24 | There did exist the small Northern Ireland Labour Party which disappeared after the fall of Stormont ; but it had been based on industrial workers , particularly in the shipyards , and remained much smaller in size than its Southern counterpart . |
| 25 | A main real difference in the experience which marked it off from fundamentalist and some pentecostal forms of conversion experience was that the outcome was not the assurance of being saved , but rather a spirituality of trust in Christ based on repentance and the conviction that God forgives repentant sinners . |
| 26 | It is based on the theme of protestant liberty , which is consciously contrasted with catholic authoritarianism . |
| 27 | There is a resonance of protestant beliefs in their unchurched experience , their rough , straight-from-the-shoulder speech , their interpretation of history and tradition , and solidarity at the economic level based on their dependency upon the leadership of the group as a whole for their work and welfare . |
| 28 | The provisional IRA 's commitment to violence against the British and against the protestant — loyalist alliance , which the provisionals rhetorically and conveniently subsume under the term ‘ the British ’ , is frequently assumed to be based on either Marxist or nationalist principles and in both cases to be secularist or areligious . |
| 29 | In this writer 's view , the arguments against multi-denominational education and in favour of catholic schools support an overall political theology which is strongly based on authority within the church . |
| 30 | Based on statistical data for Roman catholics educated in both Roman catholic and other schools , Greeley and Rossi noted as one of their findings that there was little difference in adult religious practice between the two groups . |