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on the philosophy which
opposition to the merger is 
based
on the argument that the
over time - which is 
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on the concept that a
of Andrews's theorising is 
based
on the premise that
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based
on the assumption that
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based
on the notion that the
city of Bremen. The idea is 
based
on the principle that
a rabbit out of a hat is 
based
on the original in which
Portfolio management is 
based
on the concept of
will disappear is 
based
on the coincidence of two
Concordance printouts (from corpora websites) can confirm that something 
is a lexical pattern. A concordance is simply a random sampling of extracts 
from spoken and written texts based around a selected word or phrase. The 
concordance sample above 
confirms that “is based on the” is indeed part of 
a common lexical pattern (or “lexical chunk”). The concordance can also 
reveal more about the pattern. For example, it reveals that there is a noun 
or noun phrase before and after “is based on” and note the similarity some 
of the nouns that follow “is based on the”. 
When demonstrating variable structures to students, a group of 
interchangeable items may be shown as all being possible substitutions in a 
particular part of the structure. In the example above, the five abstract 
nouns (idea, notion, etc.) are all shown as possible variables for that part of 
the structure. These are known as slot-fillers and we should usually keep 
the number of slot-fillers dealt with to around five (many more can be 
overwhelming) and where possible, the slot-fillers should be related in 
some way, e.g., abstract nouns for ideas/beliefs. 

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