base something on something

Examples of basing

basing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Consequently, a magistrate basing his laws on the light of nature alone might not have been as tolerant as may at first appear.
In spite of basing redemption payments on existing obligations, however, other aspects of the emancipation process pointed to something more than maintaining the status quo.
Basing their predictions on current trends, they point to the primacy of ' private-home ' (mainstream) living alongside the increasing diversification of options with a consumer focus.
One of the difficulties with basing a theory of language development around mirror neurons is that these neurons are not specialized for communicative gestures.
The advantages were to facilitate analyses and to strengthen the validity of the constructs by basing them on multiple rather than single waves.
The analysis did not evaluate the practice of basing clinical decisions on eosinophil counts and did not evaluate alternative presumptive treatment modalities.
There is also a rationale for basing their action on this information, which is one based on knowledge of folk physics.
In order to produce (10), children must be basing the movement on structure, rather than surface order.
There are, however, at least two serious problems with basing triage on this factor alone.
This conclusion is to some extent a result of basing their discussion on the particular systems they are investigating.
Basing these decisions on evidence is clearly ideal.
Such people typically make these complaints in wide and general terms, basing them upon universal moral and legal principles.
Some personality inventories take very different approaches, basing themselves on specific psychological or biological theories.
Thus, for this scenario, genetic gain is maximized with the use of an experimental 'design ' with no replication, then basing selection on the raw data.
The unions may, however, be basing this view on a false premise.
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