Example sentences of "be based on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I have always considered drama training to be based on simple precepts , for acting is not a complicated art . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And the next time Brown compiles a menu , the costing for each dish will be based on the updated purchase price . |
| 7 | In the past , some purists have said that all surface decoration applied to designed objects — all ornament , in other words — must be based on motifs which look flat , ie. they must not be drawn with a third dimension : you are allowed to make a pattern out of squares , so to speak , but not cubes . |
| 8 | Everyone might agree that financial statements should be based on the same standard but the inevitable follow up comment is : ‘ Yes , ours ’ . |
| 9 | Payment would be based on a pooled system : if everyone wanted the same coverage costs would be shared . |
| 10 | Though many analysts believe the desire for Marcos 's return to be based on Filipino culture and tradition , others feel Marcos 's 20 years of corrupt rule has produced a psychologically damaged people . |
| 11 | Daniel Brennan QC , an English barrister , said that injury compensation awards should be based on generally accepted principles rather than the present ‘ lottery ’ of different rules in EC member states . |
| 12 | Mrs Thatcher has emphasised that to avoid the troubles which have afflicted other African countries , a majority-ruled South Africa must be based on a sound economy . |
| 13 | The latter camp took heart yesterday from Mr Rocard 's insistence that any decision must be based on a consensus , but realise that they have a tough fight ahead persuading others of the logic of their arguments . |
| 14 | Claims to be based on the real-life experiences of LAPD detective Jerry Beck . |
| 15 | Such trust or distrust can only be based on an inference from personal facts about the witness and his circumstances . |
| 16 | Comparisons between countries might be based on qualitative judgement , but a variety of quantitative techniques can be used for analysis . |
| 17 | It was to be based on the British proposals in Chicago . |
| 18 | Indeed the type of ceremonial gift exchange to which we have referred seems to be based on egalitarian notions of reciprocity and sharing . |
| 19 | Robbins said that access should be based on intellectual ability , not on students ’ ability to pay . |
| 20 | It is a product of fermentation and can be based on any alcoholic liquid such as wine , cider , sherry or beer . |
| 21 | Assessments of the permissible level of incidental catch should be based on the desirability of returning dolphin stocks to original levels , not holding them at a depleted level through a continuation of a high level of incidental kill . |
| 22 | Previous decisions had held that a mistake must be based on reasonable grounds if it is to excuse , a doctrine which is illogical for the reason given by Lord Hailsham . |
| 23 | In other words , mistakes must be based on reasonable grounds where the offences are serious — which would cover not only rape but also cases involving a risk of death or serious injury , such as the use of force in self-defence . |
| 24 | The commission says that its price policy ‘ must be based on the need to meet inevitable competition on its domestic market and on world market ’ . |
| 25 | When Eisenhower made him its head he declared that American policy would be based on ‘ openness , simplicity and righteousness . ’ |
| 26 | A similar approach can be based on an examination of the metal alloy of a coin , which can be determined by scientific analysis ( see also fig. 11 ) . |
| 27 | The study of any building shown on coins , however , must be based on a full collection of the available coins . |
| 28 | These actually come down to common sense , but it still needs to be stressed that the successful study of coinage , as any other historical discipline , should be based on as full a collection of the evidence as possible as well as an awareness that this evidence should never be taken at face value . |
| 29 | Human society is , or should be based on the family and on kinship : ‘ Humanity is naturally embodied in the individual , in the family , not in the State which is alien to it . |
| 30 | But , as R. J. Campbell pointed out , the respect paid a minister could often be based on his performance as a preacher and a leader . |