Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been based [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recommendation can only have been based on the interests of cost-cutting , not of justice . |
| 2 | In 1983/4 , estimates of the numbers of lone-parent families seem consistently and wrongly to have been based upon early tabulations from the 1981 Census , which identified 414 298 households in Great Britain containing one or more children aged under 16 living with only one adult . |
| 3 | The descriptions above have been based on estimating and planning the use of time on the project . |
| 4 | The descriptions above have been based on estimating and planning the use of time on the project . |
| 5 | It is arguable that the scale and pattern of grants might more reasonably have been based on the status quo in individual schools , to avoid an invidious distinction between the two " classes " of award . |
| 6 | In their view the Commission were giving Article 100A an unduly wide construction and were using it for proposals which should properly have been based on some alternative Article of the EEC Treaty , such as Article 100 or Article 235 , which required unanimity in the Council . |
| 7 | For example , in the case of the West Midlands RMC , which was originally planned to have consisted of North Staffordshire and Wolverhampton Polytechnics , it is now based only on the former ; and , in contrast , the London RMC , which was originally to have been based on the Polytechnic of Central London , now encompasses five additional institutions . |
| 8 | The DSD levies , which up to now have been based on the size of the package , are due to rise sharply in the autumn , and will be higher on the materials which have proved hardest to recycle , especially plastic . |
| 9 | Not only is Hardwick House the the environment for Kenneth Graham 's imagination , Toad himself may well have been based on one of the old inhabitants . |
| 10 | The sessions described here have been based on the premise that students , as receivers of teaching provision , can contribute much from their accumulated knowledge and experience — which is also informed by their values and expectations — to the staff responsible for the management , delivery and content of their courses . |
| 11 | It is not hard to imagine Nietzsche adding passages of this modest length in the final weeks , especially if he had continued to work on the " whole last part of the book during the summer ; any late additions would then have been based on that work . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State 's worries about the control of Soviet nuclear weapons , given the potential breakdown of the Soviet Union , would not then have been based on such mind-boggling perceived dangers . |
| 13 | This prohibition , however has been based on what is highly questionable . |