Example sentences of "[noun sg] was based [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Walsh 's thinking was based on the theory known in economic jargon as ‘ reverse income substitution effect ’ . |
| 3 | Likewise , the major part of improvement of pre-1914 stock was based on the availability of 75% grants which had an identical objective . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The willingness of the Western democracies , led by the USA , to endorse Ceauşescu 's rule was based upon the view that his regime was pursuing independence from Moscow and that such a ‘ nationalist ’ line must involve domestic reform and liberalization . |
| 10 | ‘ The concept for the last album was based around the idea that , if we 're going to use music to stop the destruction of the world , we need to look outwards . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In addition much of her extra-European influence was based upon the confidence and expertise of local British personnel rather than on physical power . |
| 14 | At Denbigh in North Wales a plaque on a wall in the main street recalls the period when a US Army Field Artillery Battalion was based in the town . |
| 15 | Our proposal was based on the fact that living outside would possibly be cheaper and , if they did n't agree to pay for me to do so , I would remain in the home as an expense to them anyway . |
| 16 | The emergency plan was based on the lesson learned during the Towyn floods . |
| 17 | In the Middle Ages , and even for some Christians today , the idea of reconciliation was based on the belief that God was offended by the sins of people . |
| 18 | The Act was based upon the notion of freedom of contract , i.e. that the parties were free to make their contract upon whatever terms they pleased . |
| 19 | Mr Ashdown has always been careful to stress his belief that the revival of the party would require at least two general elections and his campaign was based on the need for long-term growth rather than on hope in the statistical quirk of a hung parliament . |
| 20 | Fife 's application for assistance was based on the need to reduce dependence on the defence sector and increase the level of product development within the manufacturing sector . |
| 21 | Days Mill was based on the site of a much older and smaller mill , probably built some time during the 16th or 17th centuries . |
| 22 | This reaction was based on the understanding that atomic bombs cause widespread death and destruction and extreme human suffering . |
| 23 | The distinction was based on the seriousness of the offence . |
| 24 | The second ground for recovery was based on the condictio indebiti . |
| 25 | However , the American ambassador , Mr Thomas Pickering , told the council yesterday that Washington 's approval was based on the assumption that the force would take steps to halt aid for Salvadorean guerrillas . |
| 26 | tried to inaugurate a new concept of citizenship which would link men of different social classes , The concept was based upon the notion that there was a good common to members of all classes , a goal the existence of which could be established from German Idealist metaphysics and which could be made visible in actual measures of educational reform and social welfare . |
| 27 | The earlier model for settlement development was based on the idea of a lot of villages established by Anglo-Saxon settlers clearing the land and creating open , common fields . |
| 28 | In its original form waveform detection was based on the modulating effect on the phase current of the motional voltage ( which in turn is a function of rotor position ) , but more recently a scheme using the variation of phase inductance with rotor Position has been proposed . |
| 29 | An earlier alternative economy was based on the jogo de bicho , an illegal lottery that became big business . |
| 30 | My conviction on this count was based on the fact that I had researched this area very well and knew that there was nothing on record . |