Example sentences of "may be base [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such statements may be based on strong conviction and close observation , and may even be felt to be self-evident , but they appear to have no empirical status — are merely , we might say , guesses — unless supported by frequency data . |
| 2 | Whilst cost budgets may be based on internal standards , they may depend on the sales volume of the business activity . |
| 3 | An application may be based on actual or likely harm to the child . |
| 4 | Clusters may be based on geographical variables such as : county , city , district or parish boundaries . |
| 5 | This may be used at a variety of levels of sophistication and economic generality , thus : 5.3 i ) Models at company level may be based on econometric equations for instance to analyse the relationship between price and demand , perhaps using the model . |
| 6 | In addition such strategical decisions may be based on episodic memories for particular instances of driving the planned route , for example , the memory that you encountered road works at a particular junction recently and that it should thus be avoided until they have been completed . |
| 7 | using microviewdata/viewdata to compile , synthesize ( and therefore re-create ) in-house databases , which may be based on original research or other forms of information , including information from viewdata sources . |
| 8 | Statuses are culturally defined , despite the fact that they may be based on biological factors such as sex or race . |
| 9 | Please note that prices quoted by hotels and guest houses may be based on double occupancy of a room . |
| 10 | Employees ' attitudes towards the country concerned may be based on false pre-conceptions . |
| 11 | The method is not statistically valid , but is viable in the same way as quota sampling , in that it may be based on objective proportions . |
| 12 | Lakoff and Turner distinguish between " conceptual " metaphors , which are part of the language system , and original or " image " metaphors , ( which may be based upon conceptual metaphors ) . |
| 13 | While methods of choosing amongst alternatives when they occur ( which is not often ) may be based upon statistical measures of likelihood ( such as word frequency ; see Kucera and Francis , 1967 ) the problem remains that the correct word may be rejected . |