Example sentences of "[adv] base [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Clubs feature their own children 's programme , not necessarily based on a pirate theme . |
| 2 | These households were not necessarily based on a home ashore at all times . |
| 3 | And this is all based on a regime where the tests for bacteria in the water are crap . |
| 4 | The traditional division of language into the spoken and the written is clearly and sensibly based on a difference in production and reception : we use our mouths and ears for one , and our hands and eyes for the other . |
| 5 | The more frequent words are then clustered together based on a similarity metric . |
| 6 | The shift is as much based on a desire to snag Unix software sales as by caution about competition from fellow 4GL tool suppliers Uniface and Progress . |
| 7 | Now an endowment is obviously based on a principle of interest only on l loan , so over the same term , of twenty years , you 've only ever paid interest off the loan and you still owe th a after twenty years , you 'd still owe the building society ten thousand pounds . |
| 8 | The courses are obviously based on a training model , and all colleges running such courses should evaluate longitudinally whether participants do in fact secure subsequent employment or further education and training . |
| 9 | The evidence that this approach will work more generally is patchy , and is furthermore based on a series of assumptions that have not been widely tested . |
| 10 | However , when necessary , choreographers can and should create a particular style that is perhaps based on a mixture of the above but that is , in the final analysis , a style suitable for one ballet only . |
| 11 | The later Lives of Aethelberht place his accession in 779 so that the suspicion must arise that this note is perhaps based on a misreading of a king-list which concluded by simply listing these names and misled the annalist into thinking that the kingdom had been partitioned among them . |
| 12 | The process is thus based on an ability to define and interpret the many possible and desirable relationships that can exist between two orthogonal domains . |
| 13 | There were many exceptions , of course ; but there was a pervasive attitude — largely based on a misinterpretation of Sigmund Freud 's psychoanalytic theorizing — that children should be inhibited as little as possible . |
| 14 | They are bookish , theoretical , and what Orwell in ‘ Inside the Whale ’ once perceptively called ‘ largely based on a sense of personal immunity ’ . |
| 15 | Funding for teaching is largely based on an institution 's record in attracting students in the past . |
| 16 | The fees of consulting engineers from outside , not to mention consulting environmentalists such as landscape architects , are generally based on a percentage of the total construction contract . |
| 17 | Any employee at Coniston Mines during the 19th Century would fall into one of two distinct categories : ( 1 ) a dayworker , whose wages were generally based upon a rate of so much per day but which was variable depending upon the degree of skill required , yet at times might be calculated on a piece rate , or , ( 2 ) a miner engaged in winning ore from the stopes , tunnelling , raising , or shaft sinking through rock . |
| 18 | That community not only traverses frontiers , to form an invisible college ; it also extends , for some subjects , beyond institutions of higher education to include research institutes , industrial laboratories , professionals working in the field , and the individual scholar who ( no longer based in an institution ) still goes on contributing to the literature . |
| 19 | In an interview he has stated : ‘ My stories are usually based on a journey of some sort . |
| 20 | A system not designed by a computer vendor — usually based on a PC Local Area Network , ‘ stretched ’ somehow to handle larger systems . |
| 21 | The let-down charts in Aerad and Jeppesen flight guides are usually based on an airspeed of 150 kts . |
| 22 | Secondly , instead of being located in a work situation , these groups are usually based in a community , often a neighbourhood or some form of local grouping . |
| 23 | For instance , Ritchie Blackmore was a very fast player , but it was always based on a blues thing , never on ‘ How many notes can I get in the scale ? ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A four-wheeled diesel called ‘ Rusty ’ loosely based on a Rushton Shunter design , also celebrated its arrival recently and to date is mainly used for engineering and work trains . |
| 26 | I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept . |
| 27 | The ruling was said to be partly based on a case brought in a British court by a Maze prisoner who had alleged maltreatment by prison officers . |
| 28 | This section is partly based on an example from Guttman ( 1977 , p. 174 ) . |
| 29 | The remarks about top-up by local offices was also based on a misunderstanding . |
| 30 | Whether this pattern represents the movement of the people using the axes ( an unlikely hypothesis ) , the exchange of gifts between adjacent groups of people , or some sort of trade probably based on a barter system , is difficult , if not impossible , to prove ; but the movement of the finds themselves can not be disputed . |