Example sentences of "been base on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There did exist the small Northern Ireland Labour Party which disappeared after the fall of Stormont ; but it had been based on industrial workers , particularly in the shipyards , and remained much smaller in size than its Southern counterpart . |
| 2 | This was the evidence which Marx and Engels required in order to show that society has not always been based on private property held by isolated nuclear families . |
| 3 | Usually such inferences have been based on quantitative analyses of single variables — nearly always phonological variables , such as the incidence of postvocalic /r/ in New York speech ( Labov 1966 ) . |
| 4 | I was no closer to knowing the selection procedure , as my conversations about this with the other recruits had been based on mere speculation and gossip . |
| 5 | So far , all the investigations of definitional overlap using the MRDs have been based on one sample of data , which was selected at random from a corpus of business letters . |
| 6 | The plans had been based on over-optimistic assumptions of the potential growth of the economy and hence of revenue . |
| 7 | There is a long history in the use of case management within rehabilitation services in North America and these have usually been based on psychosocial models in psychiatric rehabilitation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To begin with , it would have been based on absolute desperation . |
| 10 | It seems to have been based on real understanding , but little real intimacy . |
| 11 | Wholesale reform of language to eliminate sexism has proved more difficult , however ; particularly when it has been based on simplistic accounts of what language is and how it works . |
| 12 | Waddington stated in a written parliamentary reply on April 4 , 1990 , that following his study of such documents he had concluded that the removal had been based on straightforward facts . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His entire professional career had been based on that premise . |
| 15 | Some voices of the past may have been based on shaky techniques , or their use transgressed today 's views about musical taste , but many others still shatter the sense by their beauty , magnificence and sheer character in the vocalisation . |
| 16 | His pamphlet Nothing gained by overcrowding ! ( 1912 ) may have been based on questionable statistics , but the approach and general philosophy proved increasingly acceptable to informed opinion . |
| 17 | The financial information in the group 's accounts relating to Ferromet Resources Inc and its subsidiaries has been based on unaudited management accounts for 1991 . |
| 18 | The new Software Performance Report ( SPR ) has been based on another SPR identifier which does not exist . |
| 19 | For the past 30 years almost all economic analysis of decision making in situations of risk and uncertainty has been based on expected utility theory . |
| 20 | Moreover , for large numbers of individuals the new per capita charge represented a considerable increase over their equivalent share of the rates which had hitherto been based on notional values of the homes which they occupied . |
| 21 | In the knowledge that so much of the central and parochial planning has been based on these kinds of projections , many ministers want to ignore the evidence from the past and present , and work in the hope that God will do a new thing . |
| 22 | But yesterday Richard Collin , director of central services with the borough council , said the calculations had been based on unreliable assumptions as to the rate of collection and administration costs . |
| 23 | The most fruitful studies have been based on calculated energy levels . |
| 24 | Although most descriptive grammars have been based on written documents , a few , such as that by Palmer ( 1965 ) , and that of the français fondamental , have been based on the spoken forms of the language . |
| 25 | Before rising population and inflating prices for necessaries began to increase the burden on rate-payers from the last third of the century , the relief of the village and small-town poor seems to have been based on humane assessment of need and sufficient relief . |
| 26 | Neither has the polarity between Male and Female which we so take for granted ever been based on rock-solid foundations , but has depended on a variety of shifting meanings . |
| 27 | Some definitions of style have been based on this assumption . |