"a hunch based on" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that a particular belief or feeling is based on intuition or instinct rather than concrete evidence. Example: - I have a hunch based on his body language that he is lying. - Her decisions were often made on a hunch based on years of experience in the industry. - Without any real evidence, he put forward a hunch based on his own assumptions.
I'd trust the judgment of her label, XL, more than I'd trust a hunch based on the questionable quality of other artists' posthumous releases.
Curious, Dr. MacDiarmid invited Dr. Shirakawa to Penn, where the researchers diffused iodine into Dr. Shirakawa's polyacetylene films -- a hunch based on their experience with sulfur nitride.
Dr. Chen, who was raised in Honghu, in central China, developed a hunch based on his childhood experiences of seeing lotus leaves swinging in breezes.
Paul Rees Wasps 35-18 NewcasThisThis is a hunch, based on no statistical evidence but could it be that the scrum is showing signs of settling down at last?
It was a hunch based on experience.
Harrington just a hunch, based on little more than that and the fact that he seems to be coming good about the right time and this course, this tournament, is good for him.
That examination found that unless new evidence were to surface, the enormous public investment in the case would appear to have yielded nothing more persuasive than a strong hunch, based on a pattern of damning circumstances, that Dr. Ivins was the perpetrator.
It's possible that a spam filter blocked your message; though my hunch — based on my own inclination to discount e-mail invitations — is that your would-be date mistook it for diffidence.
Because my long-held hunch -- based on many years of following this stuff as a health and science writer -- has been that coffee is probably not bad for you, and may even be quite good for you, a theory now backed by a recent video post from Dr. Aaron E. Carroll, a professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
This isn't based on any sourced information, just my hunch based on what I've seen so far.
A federal official nominating such a person for inclusion on the list just needs "reasonable suspicion" of a danger – something defined as more than "mere guesses or hunches", based on articulable information or "rational inferences" from it, but far less than probable cause.
