Example sentences of "been based on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To begin with , it would have been based on absolute desperation . |
| 6 | It seems to have been based on real understanding , but little real intimacy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His entire professional career had been based on that premise . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The most fruitful studies have been based on calculated energy levels . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Some definitions of style have been based on this assumption . |