Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] based on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was based on a revival of Plato 's ideas and so is called Neoplatonism . |
| 2 | It also raises the possibility that the younger children in Emerson 's task may indeed have understood that there is a directional component to the meaning of because , but that this was based on a grasp of causal direction and not the temporal priority for which Emerson was testing . |
| 3 | The journalistic and political inference was that children in primary classrooms are not working nearly hard enough ; generally this was based on an aggregation of the percentages for ‘ routine ’ , ‘ awaiting attention ’ and ‘ distracted ’ to produce the claim that 40 per cent of time was ‘ wasted ’ . |
| 4 | This was based on the assumption that once supranational institutions had been set up in one economic sector , interest groups would look to that political level for the realisation of their demands , and that in time the groups would begin to appreciate the value to themselves of integration . |
| 5 | But this was based on the assumption that the current tax relief limit of £30,000 would be increased in line with inflation . |
| 6 | This was based on the antics of a crew chief John C Ford — Jack to his friends — who had some knuckled dentistry and lost a tooth during a bar-room brawl en route to England . |
| 7 | This was based on the research of Nesta Webster , the grand dame of British conspiracy theory , who saw Jews in alliance with other subversive forces , as being behind all the ills of the modern world , from the threats to the British Empire through to the nudity movement . |
| 8 | These were based on a faith in the rationality and cooperative character of man and in the possibility of building a more harmonious society once inequality and exploitation were removed through state action . |
| 9 | The original dispersed development strategy ended up with a shortfall , something like two thousand dwellings , compared to the sites which had been agreed between the various authorities at the time , it 's also worth noting that that was based on a dwelling target of nine thousand one hundred for Greater York , I think that 's correct , over the period since actual sites which have been agreed between the authorities since then have clearly increased , so as you 've seen in my appendix eight the residual requirement has now been reduced to a a level of nine hundred and forty seven . |
| 10 | That was based on the film starring Al Pacino , itself based on the true story of a New York cop who made allegations of corruption in the city 's police department . |
| 11 | When the requirement was originally written erm and agreed in nineteen eighty seven all of the nations decided that erm we required a short take off and landing capability and that was based on the sort of the then cold war situation where the prospects of runways and airfields being very severely damaged in a sort of central European type of scenario , and therefore the possibility that there might be only very small operating strips available from those runways and that was the basis for the particular length that was decided at the time . |