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HEADWORD: base (at/ in/ on/ upon) v.
NOUNS: absence, actions, acts, actual patients, administration, advances, advice, aim, air base, alternative responses, analogy, anatomical comparisons, annual figures, antagonism, anti-perfectionism, army unit, arrangement, assessment, astrology, asymmetric contraction, attitude, authoritative directives, authority, authority of government, available evidence, balance of evidence, behavioural comparisons, belief, best-judgement affair, book, bombers, calculations, calendar, canon law, capitalist activity, care, careful consideration/ observation, carefully co-ordinated policy, case(s), Case Law, characteristics, choice, Christian year, chronology, civil law, claim, classical models/ texts, common existence/ sense, communal principles7 property, communal classless stage, company, comprehension, computer models, concept, conclusions, consent, Conservatism, considerations, constructive liability, contemporary records, contract, control, controversial conceptions, conventional notion, conversation(s), conviction, country, crops, cultural group, cycles, date, decisions, deforestation rate, degree of harm/ risk, desires, development, diagnosis, difference, discrimination, discriminatory factors, discussions, distastes, distinction, division, doctrine, document, dualism, ecological system, economic development/ level/ models/ partnership, economy, encounter, endorsement, enduring self-engrossment, estimate, eternal truth, equitable trade, evolutionary considerations, examination, exercises, experience, experienced facts of experiment, explanation, fossils, framework, friendship, Epicureanism, exploitation, extension, facts, faith, false assumptions, feasible equipment, final decision, firm, form of life, games, fundamental miscomprehension, gender identity, general policy, government reports, government(s), group, guesswork, guidelines, higher stage, historical facts, hooks and springs, hopes, hostile motives, hotel, hours of field study, idea, important choices, improbability, industrial workers, Industrial Revolution, installations, interpretation, intuition, investigations, irrelevant factors, job, judgements, kinship, knowledge, law(s), legal definition, less-than-comprehensive evidence, letter, levels, list, lives, London, magisterial authority, main argument, management, manipulation motives, matrilineal descent, measurements, measures, mechanism(s), medical criteria/ view, methodical procedures, military base, missiles, mistake, misunderstanding, model, monasticism, monogram, moon, morality, moral duty/ ideals/ rules, need, nervous system, neuronal representation, neurones, nostalgic hankering, notes, number, obligation, observation, oneself, opinion, ordinary things, organization, other reasons, ownership, papal direction, part, partial rehearsal, pattern, person, philosophy, physical principles, poem, point of view, political authority/ divisions/ institutions, politics, poorly controlled trials, premisses, priority, private property, process, profits, programmes, proposal(s), protagonists, proven physical principles, psychiatric clinic, public authority/ services, questionnaire, questions, radical departure, rate, real needs, reasonable grounds, reasoned articulation, recollections, reconstruction, relationship, religion, remote-sensing surveys, repentance, reports, responsibility, results, rational considerations, recommendations, reformers, restraint, retrospective reflections, revelation, revival, rights, rule, scaffolding, scholarly work, science, senses, shared interests/ locality, sides, slavery, social conventions/ system, sociological comparisons/ study, society, speculations, spirit, spirituality, spurious conception, state units, strong human emotions, study of nature, substance, subjective measuring, substitutivity, summary reports, sun, sympathy, system, taste in music, terms, theme, theory, therapists, thought, timeless values, town, translation, treatment, treatment approach/ results, treaty, trees, tribal structures, unity trust(s), vague generalization, value of freedom, values, verdict(s), very same reasons, view, voluntary agency, way, way of thought, White Paper, world, work, writings, written material;
ADVERBS: almost entirely, astronomically, biblically, entirely, experimentally, extensively, firmly, fundamentally, generally, genuinely, here, in part/ turn, largely, locally, namely, narrowly, observationally, often, particularly, partly, precisely, probably, simply, solely, solidly, surely, strongly, therefore, ultimately;
EXAMPLES: governments are to base their actions on considerations; you need something to base it on; we base our conclusions on facts; they base themselves only on the vaguest generalization; on what is ownership based?; our comprehension as, based as it is on observation, intuition, and guesswork is always only partial; a body of knowledge is based firmly on the experienced facts of experiment and observation; legitimate political authority is based in the consent of the governed; this dualism was based in a mistake in the categorization of ideas; capitalism is not based on some eternal truth; financial accounting systems are narrowly based on annual figures; their friendship based on shared interests; he tried to base his life on this theory; mistakes must be based on reasonable grounds; this book is based on the recollections of courtiers; these are judgements based on controversial descent; judgements based on the senses often are incorrect; the scaffolding is not very solidly based; all five cases are based on actual patients; anti-perfectionism is based on restraint; it must be based upon wholly medical criteria; these missiles are based on Russian soil; he was suggesting that we base ourselves at a hotel; my job is based in Meppen; this species of involuntary manslaughter is based upon constructive liability;
SYNONYMS: found, construct, form, build, establish, rest, ground, derive, fasten, root; locate, situate, station, post, install, place;
GERMAN: stellen, ruhen auf, stehen auf, fest stehen, gründen, basieren auf, setzen auf, sich stützen auf, leben, stationieren (in), seinen Sitz haben (in);
The entry in the

BBI

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base II v. (d;tr.) to ~ on, upon (we ~d our consclusions on facts)
The entry in

Collins Cobuild

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base V + O /NG/REFL): USU PASS + A
If you are based at or in a particular place, you are positioned , stationed, or staying there.
EG I was based in London... if these missiles are based on Britsh soil ... We were suggesting that they base themselves at a hotel.
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