Example sentences of "[that] it is based on " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the fact that it is based on what has appeared to be a uniquely simple fuel , and one whose exploitation could avoid dependence on a variety of other uncertain choices . |
| 2 | The most obvious is that it helps you prepare your position so that it is based on facts rather than speculation or wishful thinking . |
| 3 | I believe that this trend will spread and that it is based on very sound educational grounds . |
| 4 | The particular value of task-centred work is that it is based on an intention to form an agreement or contract between the client and the worker , thus freeing the client from the burden of always being a grateful recipient . |
| 5 | As we have seen , Strawson 's analysis gains its plausibility from the fact that it is based on an appeal to our everyday view of ourselves , which is offered as an a priori reason for adopting an individualist approach . |
| 6 | For the last ten years or so , feminist commentators on social policy have remarked upon two particular features of the British social security system : first , that it is based on clear and consistent views about the nature of marriage and the economic and social relationship between husbands and wives ( Land and Parker , 1978 ; O'Donovan , 1979 ) ; and secondly , despite considerable changes in the position of women in society since the principles of the modern social security system were laid out in the Beveridge Report ( Beveridge , 1942 ) and consolidated in post-war legislation , the system itself and its principles have remained obstinately impervious to change ( Land , 1975 ) . |
| 7 | We should also note that it is based on certain assumptions , for example it is assumed that those who have some reason to form a pressure group will , in an open society , do so , and that the degree of governmental response will depend on the degree of pressure the group is able to exert , and that this is directly related to the group 's importance to the community . |
| 8 | It is not within the scope of this book to enter into a detailed explanation of the technique of the horn , but the fact should be firmly grasped that it is based on the possibility of producing by means of varying embouchure the upper partials of the harmonic series derived from a fundamental note , the pitch of which depends on the length of the tube . |
| 9 | The problem with this approach however is that it is based on opportunism rather than commitment . |
| 10 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is based on the Labour party 's ideological dislike of people who are not wholly dependent on the state ? |
| 11 | We are told that federalism means different things to different people , that it is a benign arrangement which does not centralise but pushes power downwards to the people and the regions and that it is based on subsidiarity . |
| 12 | Efforts will be made to ensure that it is based on state-of-the-art econometric techniques and on strong and , where appropriate , innovative theoretical underpinnings . |
| 13 | THERE have been a number of articles and letters published recently about North-East drift-net fishery for salmon , which suggest that the Government 's proposal to phase out this fishery is unreasonable and that it is based on political expediency under pressure from owners of rod fisheries . |