Example sentences of "[verb] been based on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wholesale reform of language to eliminate sexism has proved more difficult , however ; particularly when it has been based on simplistic accounts of what language is and how it works . |
| 2 | In the knowledge that so much of the central and parochial planning has been based on these kinds of projections , many ministers want to ignore the evidence from the past and present , and work in the hope that God will do a new thing . |
| 3 | Some voices of the past may have been based on shaky techniques , or their use transgressed today 's views about musical taste , but many others still shatter the sense by their beauty , magnificence and sheer character in the vocalisation . |
| 4 | Waddington stated in a written parliamentary reply on April 4 , 1990 , that following his study of such documents he had concluded that the removal had been based on straightforward facts . |
| 5 | The plans had been based on over-optimistic assumptions of the potential growth of the economy and hence of revenue . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But yesterday Richard Collin , director of central services with the borough council , said the calculations had been based on unreliable assumptions as to the rate of collection and administration costs . |
| 8 | Usually such inferences have been based on quantitative analyses of single variables — nearly always phonological variables , such as the incidence of postvocalic /r/ in New York speech ( Labov 1966 ) . |
| 9 | Although most descriptive grammars have been based on written documents , a few , such as that by Palmer ( 1965 ) , and that of the français fondamental , have been based on the spoken forms of the language . |