adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be based on a misunderstanding (= happen or be done as a result of a misunderstanding )
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The whole argument was based on a misunderstanding.
be based on a principle
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A good education ought to be based on multicultural principles.
be based on an analysis of sth
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This work has been based entirely on an analysis of large mammals.
be based on common sense
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The job doesn't require much training because it's based on common sense.
be based on criteria
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Normal child development is based upon certain criteria.
be based on the belief that …
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Our policies must be based on the belief that the planet’s resources are finite.
be based on/rest on an assumption
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Our plans were based on the assumption that everyone would be willing to help.
broadly based
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a broadly based school curriculum
loosely based on
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The film is loosely based on the novel.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
broadly
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The Physical Education department endeavours to provide a broadly based service for all students and staff within the University.
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Andersen Consulting believes what you really need is a more broadly based approach.
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There was much interest in a broadly based Middle Eastern Command which would enlist the willing support of the Arab states.
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What was a broadly based culture has become a field of specialization.
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The Trust's share of Wellcome represents 95 percent of its income-producing to seek a larger and more broadly based income.
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It is, according to the Torstar 1983 business profile: a broadly based information and entertainment communications company.
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I would like to propose one broadly based category which will clearly require extensive elaboration and refinement.
locally
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Papers relied increasingly on locally based stringers and news agencies.
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Day care should be viewed as only part of a strategy and should link in with other locally based resources.
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Successful bids by management-employee teams would also help to meet the competition objective by establishing independent, locally based companies.
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Employment Training is a locally based programme that first helps you select people with the aptitude and commitment you're looking for.
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However, even this view of relatively autonomous, locally based development shares some of the same themes as those identified above.
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They would be available to share expertise, offer advice and provide an informed focus for locally based educational advance.
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Thriving small settlements must have an active and mostly locally based economy.
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This was a proposal for a loose federation of locally based groups.
■ NOUN
approach
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Andersen Consulting believes what you really need is a more broadly based approach .
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It is interesting that both of these organisations are using a competency based approach in the current revision of their courses.
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A community based approach can provide a local organisational framework more able than individuals to interact with administrative and planning institutions.
company
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Both projects, which were won against stiff competition, are for offshore fixed installations for Abu Dhabi based company Adma Opco.
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Morland is the subject of a one and a half million pound bid from a Suffolk based company , Greene King.
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They were at the sharp end of an operation conceived at the Oxford based company Unipart.
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The organisation spends about £5 million per year on new investments in technology based companies .
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The grouping formalised the situation by creating four essentially geographically based companies , even though they did stray into one another's territories.
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Successful bids by management-employee teams would also help to meet the competition objective by establishing independent, locally based companies .
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Shares in development based companies were particularly hard hit.
group
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The London based group Books Etc gave an indication of the kind of impact this had on booksellers.
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But the east Belfast based group vowed the show would go ahead - even if it did take some time.
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And for the second successive year, the St Helens based group is forced to cut its dividend.
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This was a proposal for a loose federation of locally based groups .
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The London based group Centrepoint has come up with a plan to bring together the people needed to get more homes.
machine
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Ever since the personnel computer first thrust itself on to our desks it has been a largely text based machine .
study
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Associations between diseases can be established only by population based studies .
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More recent population based studies from the Copenhagen area in the early and late 1970s showed 7-10/100000 incidence of chronic pancreatitis.
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Published research on the patterns of care of attacks are dominated by hospital based studies .
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There have been few community based studies of mortality in Crohn's disease.
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The patient sample therefore resembles that of a population based study .
system
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Fault-response based systems are usually advocated when lots of reliable diagnostic information is available.
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There are four main areas of work, automated reasoning, intelligent robotics, knowledge based systems and speech and language processing.
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Further, this type of approach would soon bring the concept of a computer based system into disrepute.
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Applications of artificial intelligence based systems were envisaged by very few.
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Nevertheless, pen-based systems offer a number of distinct advantages over speech or keyboard based systems.
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The possibilities offered in the introduction of knowledge based systems are enormous.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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General practice based education is still a marginal activity.
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Geographically based organisations Geographically based organisations such as retail businesses readily spring to mind.
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He asked a street trader, who said they were the police, London based law officers.
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If they sail independently we have to pay additional yacht insurance and keep a shore based engineer on call to support you.
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Prices based on a multiple of earnings tend to require more detailed and thorough completion accounts than net asset value based prices.
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Recent advances in remote sensing and computer based processing of digital imagery may overcome such problems.
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This can be termed politically based inequality.