Sentence examples for basis of a play from inspiring English sources

Would they ever find out they are the basis of a play that they will likely never hear about?

The books have formed the basis of a play and a BBC Radio 4 series but have never before been filmed for TV.

The Dirk Gently books have formed the basis of a play and a BBC Radio 4 series but have never before been filmed for TV.

I started gathering material on the film and its aftershocks, though I wasn't aware that it would one day form the basis of a play.

The events and subsequent Senate committee inquiries were widely reported, and the transcripts of the inquiry formed the basis of a play, A Certain Maritime Incident.

American novelist and Hollywood screenwriter celebrated for her novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which became the basis of a popular play, two musicals, and two films.

Such is the main point of Erik Erikson's 1958 book, "Young Man Luther," which became the basis of a famous play by John Osborne (filmed, in 1974, with Stacy Keach in the title role).

(In the 1950s, the Scopes trial became the basis of a famous play and then movie, Inherit the Wind. This portrays the Bryan figure as a bigot, wedded to a crude picture of life's past. In fact, Bryan in respects was an odd figure to be defending the Tennessee law.

At the last general election, the Liberal Democrats stood on a manifesto commitment to "commission services for local people from a range of providers on the basis of a level playing field".

In fact, our manifesto said we would give elected "local health boards the freedom to commission services for local people from a range of different types of provider, including, for example, staff co-operatives, on the basis of a level playing field in any competitive tendering – ending any current bias in favour of private providers".

"The whole basis of a financial fair play set of rules is to ensure that if there is a sporting advantage that has been obtained, you can address that through some sort of sporting sanction".