Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] base on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sabbath laws of the Jews were based on the story of creation in Genesis . |
| 2 | Marked on the back ‘ Bristol Views ’ , these delightful transfer printed pictures were based on the work of late 18th- and early 19th-century painters such as F. Nicholson . |
| 3 | Society was now based on complicity in the common crime ; religion was based on the sense of guilt and the remorse attaching to it ; while morality was based partly on the exigencies of this society and partly on the penance demanded by the sense of guilt . |
| 4 | Walsh 's thinking was based on the theory known in economic jargon as ‘ reverse income substitution effect ’ . |
| 5 | Likewise , the major part of improvement of pre-1914 stock was based on the availability of 75% grants which had an identical objective . |
| 6 | The experiment was based on the Siegel and Markey comparison experiments . |
| 7 | The whole 45-year partnership was based on a handshake — no written contract at all . |
| 8 | The assessment of parental indifference was based on the lack of parental interest shown in friends , school work , jobs and in adequate feeding and clothing of the child . |
| 9 | The belief that political equality was attained by the establishment of universal suffrage was based on the assumption , mentioned earlier , that governments were indeed sovereign over society , and that ultimately nothing could prevent a popularly elected government from carrying out its mandate . |
| 10 | The design of the breakwater was based on the recommendations of an engineering study prepared for the Regional Council by Sir William Halcrow and Partners , which include a computerised hydrodynamic model . |
| 11 | The Programme was based on a research agenda proposed in the Final Report of the Inner Cities Working Party which was published in 1981 ( The Inner City in Context , ed Peter Hall ) . |
| 12 | As we have seen , the Primary Needs Programme was based on a list of aims rather than a comprehensive statement of policy . |
| 13 | The design and operation of the Elective programme was based on the experience gained from the successful results obtained in the running of our college-based programme at National Certificate level . |
| 14 | The research was based on a comparison of three local areas in Edinburgh , one where gentrification began in the late 1960s , one where gentrification began in the early 1980s , and one modern suburb . |
| 15 | An excellent teacher and a generous and helpful colleague , his outstanding success in research was based on the combination of an excellent operative technique , a continual bubbling flow of new ideas , and a huge capacity for work . |
| 16 | The Keynesian model we constructed in the last chapter was based on the assumption that both consumption and saving were directly and linearly related to current disposable income . |
| 17 | The study was based on a sample of 9,000 trees across the country . |
| 18 | The 1985 study was based on a reading of 3,015 newspapers . |
| 19 | The study was based on an assumption that the maglev route would be running by 1990 . |
| 20 | Previously , the Romans had tried to bring their civil calendar , which like many ancient calendars was based on the moon , into line with the astronomical year based on the sun by adopting a system involving an additional or intercalary month every second year . |
| 21 | This submission was based on the assertion that the bank had employed the husband ‘ as agent to procure his wife 's signature to the document or at least her agreement to the transaction in principle . ’ |
| 22 | For Marx and Engels feudalism was based on a kind of dispersed slavery — serfdom — and therefore was really not all that different from the social system of the ancient city states . |
| 23 | Speaking at a press conference in London , Dr Vladimir Chernousenko said his figure was based on a tally kept by victim support groups . |
| 24 | The figure was based on the number of agreements signed between NGC and power generating companies but it was highly unlikely all these would come to fruition . |
| 25 | The school survey to be reported in World In Action was based on a US test for studying amusement arcade addiction . |
| 26 | Selection for grammar schools was based on an intelligence test known as the " Eleven-plus " examination , taken , as the name suggests , when primary schoolchildren reached the age of 11 , i.e. , at the end of their primary education . |
| 27 | The similarly complex system developed by the waTengo was based on a pattern in which grass , weeds and crop refuse were composted in Pits which were retained in both cropping and fallow periods . |
| 28 | Although the eugenic risk ( that the child of an incestuous relationship between father — daughter or brother — sister will have congenital defects ) was known at the time and was probably a factor , most of the arguments of the reformers were based on the protection of children from sexual exploitation . |
| 29 | The older , classical industrial syntheses were based on the interconversion of other two-carbon compounds . |
| 30 | Reports and returns relating to manpower were based on the position as it stood on the last day of the relevant month . |