Sentence examples for based on a familiar from inspiring English sources

Only one participant reported purchasing an item based on a familiar concept " All my stuff will always be light choices, like rarely ever get full fat" [Participant 35].

Each of its environmentally themed numbers is based on a familiar children's song.

The argument is based on a familiar sleight of hand: the bunching of worst-case scenarios.

Like "Kafka's Trial," it is an opera based on a familiar literary source, in this case the comedy by Aristophanes.

You'd expect bigger drops for a film based on a familiar character, as fans will tend to rush out and see it in the first week of release.

Clash of the Titans started its run in April 2010 with a hefty £5.68m, but the film had the benefit of being based on a familiar property.

THE IMMORTALS (Pocket Books, paper, $12), by James Gunn, is based on a more familiar science-fictional premise.

Their choice of Cranbury (Ms. Tone was raised in suburban New Jersey) was based on a criterion familiar to parents everywhere: good schools.

Mr. Chowdhury's "Waiting For Her Lover" (1974) is, as is relayed in wall text, based on a very familiar Indian painting.

Truffaut was enthusiastic about turning the story into his first feature film, and worked it out with the help of his friend Jean-Luc Godard, but the censorship of the French episode of "I Vinti" made French producers worry about making another movie based on a recognizably familiar true-crime story.

"The prosecution to which Dotterweich was subjected is based on a now familiar type of legislation whereby penalties serve as effective means of regulation.