Sentence examples for based on a former from inspiring English sources

Henry VIII personally devised a plan to form at least thirteen new dioceses so that most counties had one based on a former monastery (or more than one), though this scheme was only partly carried out.

One of the characters, based on a former employee of his father's, lives in a car.

A highway and a railway line that parallel the Mureş River were based on a former Roman road.

The title is based on a former religious chant about the Buddha preaching on Yŏngsan (Mount Yŏng), but the pieces attached to this general name have since lost their vocal tradition.

O Otago Rail Trail (New Zealand) Based on a former railway line, the Otago Rail Trail runs for 150km from Clyde to Dunedin on New Zealand's South Island, taking cyclists through spectacular landscapes of mountain ranges, hills and gorges, across the vast Maniototo plain, through old gold mining towns and, ending amid the fruit-growing areas of Central Otago.

It estimates the park, which would be based on a former cement works, would create up to 27,000 jobs.

For example, one author told us that the reported p value was based on one dataset and that the test statistic and df were based on a different, former dataset, which contained an incorrect value.

Wolfgang Ischinger, who has served as German ambassador in both Washington and London, thinks this could be based on a return to former values.

The film was based on a memoir by former New York Times reporter Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill), who formed a strange bond with Longo after the killer assumed his identity while attempting to evade arrest.

Based on a book by former banker Michael Lewis, it illustrates not just the ingenuity of a few mavericks, but the stupidity, complacency and amorality of the financial and policy elite.

The screenplay is based on a book by former BBC foreign correspondent Martin Sixsmith.