Example sentences of "[was/were] base on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 No , if they bid for the franchise , then , and get it , obviously that franchise runs for the period , and by the way , a lot of the criticisms in the film , I think were based on a misunderstanding that all the franchises are going to be short , they 're not , those where there 's a substantial investment going in can be quite a bit longer
3 but it was also stated very clearly that the brochures were based on a budget figure , it was an estimate and it would be er the subject of an adjustment at a later stage
4 The transition probabilities used were based on a text containing 10,000 letters , with zero probabilities converted to a small value to enable computation .
5 His essentially pre-ecclesiological manner was given a variety and solidity by the use of carefully copied detail , and some of his later churches of the 1840s , such as Armitage Bridge near Huddersfield ( 1847–8 ) , were based on a system of proportions derived from medieval Gothic buildings , a subject on which he published a paper in the Builder in 1847 .
6 It had been suggested that religions were based on a feeling of something limitless and unbounded , a sense of eternity .
7 Rowntree 's leading brands included Kit Kat , Smarties , Yorkie and Quality Street and the bids for the company were based on a desire by the Swiss companies to own these brands and to market them globally .
8 Morton 's arguments were based on a study of sentence lengths , on the frequencies of common words , and on other grammatical features such as the proportion of different parts of speech .
9 Councillors heard the authority had to set a budget of £11,614,000 for the new financial year and the calculations were based on a community charge to be levied on 74,014 residents .
10 The conditions agreed on Dec. 16 , which were based on a set of guidelines elaborated by France for recognition of new states emerging in Europe , included ( i ) acceptance of the UN , Helsinki Act and Paris Charter commitments on the rule of law , democracy and human rights ; ( ii ) guarantees of ethnic and minority rights ; ( iii ) acceptance of the inviolability of frontiers ; ( iv ) honouring disarmament and regional security commitments ; ( v ) arbitration to decide a structure to replace the old state ; ( vi ) acceptance of the draft agreement on Yugoslavia 's future , elaborated by the EC peace conference [ see p. 38559 ] .
11 They had realised , as William Pitt had done , that minimum wage legislation , even if it were based on a family with three children , was not enough to meet the need of all families .
12 The criteria for H pylori infection were based on the presence of histopathological evidence of gastritis and of typical bacilli on staining , a positive urease test and or culture .
13 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 .
14 ( The reforms were based on the principles discussed in Chapter 5 , pages 80–1 . )
15 The American grants and UDGs were based on the concept of leverage , by which minimal public-sector support would stimulate substantially greater private-sector investment .
16 In old music some very fine and extended pieces were based on the repetition of an ostinato bass .
17 The kung fu styles developed at the Shaolin temple were based on the movements of animals .
18 The local and regional networks were based on the railways with animal power feeding to and distributing from the stations .
19 Reports and returns relating to manpower were based on the position as it stood on the last day of the relevant month .
20 The bondage suits , for instance , were based on the idea of the strait-jacket , with trousers to match .
21 Hall 's ideas , which he was later to endorse strongly ( Hall , 1982a ; 1982b ) were based on the idea that inner-urban decline in some British cities had gone so far that orthodox approaches to regeneration would not work .
22 Milton 's views in favour of freeing the press from state , or any other forms of , control were based on the idea that the censorship and control of ideas inevitably resulted in a loss of an element of truth .
23 These theories were based on the idea of the rational individual with certain desires rationally fitting means to ends , the ends themselves not being susceptible of rational calculation .
24 The arbitrage arguments used in Chapter 4 were based on the idea that , by holding a portfolio of the shares in the index with the same weights as the index , the price of this portfolio must converge at delivery to that of the index future .
25 It is clear that many of these kinds of views were based on the evidence that in some areas of employment , and in particular on production lines involving speed and pacing , problems began as early as the mid to late forties .
26 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 .
27 The rules were based on the principle of substitution using a common ‘ radical ’ ( we would now call it a parent ) to denote members of the same family .
28 He compared the legal systems of different societies , and showed that they varied according to how many laws were based on the principle of repression , and how many on the principle of restoring the situation to what it had previously been ( restitution ) .
29 The quotations which Eurofighter provided er in nineteen ninety two were based on the equipment option prices which are included in each of the equipment development contracts .
30 The Sabbath laws of the Jews were based on the story of creation in Genesis .
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