Example sentences of "based upon a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It has just been argued that a thorough analysis of the market attractiveness and competitive strengths of an SBU ( possibly based upon a Porter analysis ) , should provide more insight into the future covariability of the SBU and total market returns .
2 More often than not the principal criterion used in practice for weeding of all types of collections is the subjective one of ‘ the librarian 's own judgement ’ , based upon a knowledge of the users and of the subject literatures covered by the collection .
3 PCT ( Personal Construct Theory ) , originated by Kelly ( 1955 ) , is based upon a concept of the individual as an active meaning-maker and participant in the world , able both to contemplate upon and extend his/her understanding of it .
4 The picture was based upon a construction site in the school grounds and included a complex arrangement of steps .
5 In this vein , nationalism is described as if it were some independent ideology , strangely based upon a sense of belonging to a particular national or ethnic group , with its traditions and a so-called common history .
6 As Rogers indicates , the accusation is based upon a measure of truth .
7 In respect of motion one five eight , the C E C is opposed because it is based upon a misunderstanding of the purposes of sectionalization .
8 The decision to use Strasbourg as a point of departure for this attempt was based upon a calculation that the strong army garrison in the frontier city would respond to the name of Napoleon , but in fact the whole affair was a disaster and ended in ridicule with the Prince 's arrest .
9 In a decision certain to arouse controversy but brilliant in its audacity , Dan Flavin will build a column of neon light reaching from the Rotunda 's floor to its skylight , and will occupy all the bays of the spiral ramp with an installation based upon a proposal which the artist realised , in fragment , in 1971 .
10 Such programmes are , as Chapter 1 pointed out , based upon a notion of contractual accountability .
11 Most of the respondents felt that in the document moral education is based upon a consensus of values .
12 This proposal , based upon a Council resolution of May 1985 , was innovative in that it only defines basic requirements , leaving detailed specifications to the individual standardisation bodies .
13 based upon a profit bottom line for Grant Development , we 're here looking at the planning application and all the implications .
14 Blake and Mouton ( 1964 ) argue that leadership behaviour is based upon a conflict between two opposing forces within the individual — a concern for the task to be done and a concern for people .
15 Chiles 's victory was particularly impressive in that it was based upon a campaign which included the explicit rejection of negative campaigning tactics — despite personal attacks upon him by his opponents — and the renunciation of " money politics " in the form of a refusal to accept campaign contributions greater that $100 .
16 The strength and the uniqueness of the English primary school has been based upon a tradition of generalist training and generalist teaching .
17 There would , for instance , be a dynamic and advanced economy with the highest possible labour productivity based upon a variety of forms of property and worker participation .
18 Although one means of detachment from the world is a spiritual asceticism based upon a lack of material possessions , more common has been the desire to accumulate luxuries and objects which themselves signify the lack of any need to engage directly in productive labour .
19 Based upon a novel by Ulster author Brian Moore , Marie Davenport ( Theresa Russell ) is unfaithful to her husband Dr Alex Davenport ( Mark Harmon ) with terrible consequences .
20 According to these accounts , the structure of power in capitalism is based upon a state which acts as a mere instrument to serve the interests of those ( the ruling class ) who own the means of production .
21 The treatment is based upon a discovery , made in Oxford , that absorption of fluids from the intestine of the rat is stimulated and improved by adding these sugars to the intestine .
22 Main classes are based upon a division of localities into continents .
23 For the Delphi as with the Victoria Centre it is important that schools recognize their needs but for Roger this is based upon a mutuality of interest which is unimpeded by the operation of specific criteria .
24 More explicitly he sees psychodynamic theories as the orthodoxy against which others have railed , either from a positivist and empirical critique ( leading to the development of behavioural social work ) ; or a radical analysis ( based upon a rejection of the individualization of problems and the location of disadvantage at the societal level and the consequent development of radical social work ) .
25 The annual General Household Survey ( GHS ) , is based upon a sample of approximately 10,000 households resident in Great Britain , and provides some data about the prevalence of acute and chronic health problems as well as considering the utilization of health and social care services .
26 The study will be based upon a sample of UK small firms in two widely differing industrial sectors , namely , biotechnology and engineering where subcontracting has grown more rapidly in recent years .
27 Quite rightly , the Labour Party did not wish to exaggerate the importance of a fringe political group which it had investigated in a detailed national survey , based upon a circular to the secretaries of its constituency organizations in 1934 .
28 Is there any truth in the following statement by Sidney Low , in The Governance of England ( 1904 ) , p. 12 : ‘ British government is based upon a system of tacit understandings .
29 We are a two-year-old flying group of five members , based upon a Piper 180 Cherokee .
30 Such judgements were based upon a willingness to comply to the full with the turning of sports into a ‘ media event ’ .
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