Example sentences of "based [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intelligence is essential , although successful School or University examinations may not have been possible through damage to shore term memory ( upon which facility most examinations are based throughout the phase of active addiction . |
| 2 | Currently most departments , including sales , accounts and laboratories are based near the centre of Le Havre in premises built in the early 1900s . |
| 3 | Robert Wilson is an executive director of Baronsmead Associates , a smallish venture capital company based near the City of London in Clerkenwell . |
| 4 | Therefore , most of our knowledge of the make-up of the stars has been drawn from instruments based upon the principle of the spectroscope . |
| 5 | This elaborate state structure , providing in principle for the greatest possible degree of local self-government , was none the less based upon the principle of democratic centralism which meant that , in the last resort , central decisions could be imposed upon levels of government below them . |
| 6 | The Latvian party leader Boris Pugo attacked the ‘ boundless diktat of the union ministries ’ and called for the establishment of ‘ genuine sovereignty ’ for the union republics based upon the principle of self-financing . |
| 7 | MINIS , when properly developed , could identify and measure the performance of departmental cost centres , and thereby provide a potential for the comprehensive reorganization of departments based upon the principle of decentralization to managerially autonomous accountable units . |
| 8 | In my judgment and for the reasons which I have given , the challenge based upon the implication of a requirement of natural justice must fail . |
| 9 | Such forecasts are , however , only predictions and are based upon the extrapolation of current trends in both mortality and fertility . |
| 10 | Hence all predictions about what proportion of the total population the 65 + age group will constitute in the future are little more than speculations based upon the extrapolation of current trends . |
| 11 | Firstly , figures based upon the evidence of wills , which are the main source used in the examination of the London alderman class , may exaggerate the survival rate , because in times of plague whole families might be eliminated before any will could be drawn up , or between its drafting and the death of the testator . |
| 12 | The following two tables and chart , although calculated in different ways , are all based upon the idea of socio-economic grouping . |
| 13 | This is because the assumption is that the significance of the icon is based upon the faith of the believer and so the possibility of a meeting between the believer and that Reality is discounted from the start . |
| 14 | Solvent-transfer models , based upon the solubility of simple hydrocarbons in water [ 14 , 15 ] , indicate that the hydrophobic effect is entropy driven at room temperature ( ΔH h ≃0 ) . |
| 15 | This will be based upon the possession of scarce resources such as coal or oil or manpower and the extent to which those resources are in demand . |
| 16 | Eventually the state came to be a repressive tool or instrument serving the interests of a new ruling class based upon the ownership of capital not land . |
| 17 | My Lords , at a time when more and more cases involve the application of legislation which gives effect to policies that are the subject of bitter public and parliamentary controversy , it can not be too strongly emphasised that the British constitution , though largely unwritten , is firmly based upon the separation of powers ; Parliament makes the laws , the judiciary interpret them . |
| 18 | ‘ At a time when more and more cases involve the application of legislation which gives effect to policies that are the subject or bitter public and parliamentary controversy , it can not be too strongly emphasised that the British constitution , though largely unwritten , is firmly based upon the separation of powers ; Parliament makes the laws , the judiciary interpret them . |
| 19 | As in the case of an award for pain and suffering , the assessment of damages for loss of amenities is based upon the level of awards in previous cases which appear to be comparable or , failing such awards , upon " impression based of necessity in large measure on the combination of intuition and experience " : per Bridge LJ in Hughes v Goodall , a decision of the Court of Appeal on 18 February 1977 . |
| 20 | The banker 's decision to issue a credit nowadays is rarely based upon the availability of a ‘ clean , on board , negotiable ’ ocean bill covering the shipment of a readily marketable commodity . |
| 21 | Bourdieu 's Distinction , in common with several other approaches to consumption , such as that of semiotics , is largely based upon the mapping of differences between goods on to differences between social groups , which , in the more reductionist instances , are often treated as prior social divisions unaltered by this process of signification . |
| 22 | Where a marking procedure which is not specific to particular test items is employed , grading methods used are that : ( i ) Marks may be awarded by teachers exercising professional judgement about the quality of a piece of work based upon the experience of the teacher regarding the standard of work that has been achieved . |
| 23 | This form of socialism , based upon the accountability of the state to society rather than vice versa , would take a long time to develop , but it was this form of socialism that supporters of perestroika hoped the Party Conference would develop further — as indeed it did . |
| 24 | It was during the composition of " East Coker " at Emperor 's Gate that the idea of a quartet of poems occurred to him , a sequence which would be loosely based upon the scheme of the four seasons and the four elements . |
| 25 | Any inferences regarding the applic-ability of the assessment information to other settings will be based upon the notion of generalisation — that is , an analysis of the inferred or observed similarities between the stimulus conditions obtaining in the assessment procedure and those which are present in other naturally occurring settings . |
| 26 | Because of this , it is hard to take seriously the various interpretations of linguistic sex-marking which are based upon the notion of prestige . |
| 27 | The Act was based upon the notion of freedom of contract , i.e. that the parties were free to make their contract upon whatever terms they pleased . |
| 28 | Our fees are based upon the degree of responsibility and skill involved and the time necessarily occupied on the work , plus the reimbursement of our outlays . |
| 29 | [ Our fees are based upon the degree of responsibility and skill involved and the time necessarily occupied on the work , plus the reimbursement of our outlays . ] |
| 30 | [ Our fees are based upon the degree of responsibility and skill involved and the time necessarily occupied on the work , plus the reimbursement of our outlays . ] |