Example sentences of "[was/were] based on an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pensions and unemployment payments were based on an insurance scheme , the funds for which were raised by taxes levied on both workers and employers . |
| 2 | The original thinking behind conservation — those economic imperatives to be more efficient with energy and use less — was based on an outlook of steeply rising prices . |
| 3 | This principle was based on an idea that was accepted by other Greek thinkers of this period — the concept of Time as a judge . |
| 4 | Selection for grammar schools was based on an intelligence test known as the " Eleven-plus " examination , taken , as the name suggests , when primary schoolchildren reached the age of 11 , i.e. , at the end of their primary education . |
| 5 | The survey was based on an assessment of litter and dog fouling in a 500 metres circle round the parliament building . |
| 6 | Early in his reign he realized that liberalism was unpopular with the masses , and he deliberately scorned the classes : his power , as Lord Liverpool observed from a distance , was based on an alliance of proletariat and priests against ‘ landlords ’ and middle classes . |
| 7 | Before the budget of 1920 , the British system of direct taxation was based on an exemption principle . |
| 8 | The farmers ' lack of legal action against the company was based on an uncertainty about what their legal rights were , particularly in regard to mineral rights , lack of financial resources to risk going to law and no reliable information on the worth of the minerals . |
| 9 | Asger Jorn 's interest in folk cultures and tribal societies which lacked a notion of ‘ art ’ as a distinct intellectual practice separated from the common culture , was based on an understanding of the extent to which the spheres of art and work have become conflicting practices within bourgeois relations of production . |
| 10 | Other studies have analysed cursive words on a letter-by-letter basis ( Frishkopf and Harmon , 1961 ; Harmon 1962a ) where segmentation was based on an estimate of letter width , and letters identified by reference to stored features such as cusps , closures , retrograde strokes and so on . |
| 11 | Peres , then Finance Minister , announced that the IS500,000,000 budgeted for the settlement of Soviet Jews might not be adequate as it was based on an estimate of 40,000 new arrivals , whereas the Ministry of Immigration had estimated that up to 100,000 immigrants might arrive in 1990 . |
| 12 | The more recent survey was based on an example of 85 homes . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | The study was based on an assumption that the maglev route would be running by 1990 . |
| 15 | The newspaper report was based on an announcement to shareholders and the media by Navan Resources . |
| 16 | This system was based on an examination of individual courses by external academics and others drawn from the subject or professional area in question . |
| 17 | The Survey was based on an examination of the book application forms ( commonly referred to as ‘ call-slips ’ ) submitted by readers over a period of a fortnight . |