Which preposition to use with bases

on Occurrences 4084%

The whole right theory of trade is a give-and-take between men and nations, based on a just price, and with a deep law of Value, not yet wholly formulated, underlying each transaction.

of Occurrences 1685%

Another basis of supremacy is conviction.

of Occurrences 1211%

It is situated, alone, at the base of a low hill.

for Occurrences 337%

More than this, there must be at the heart of the more thoughtful minister a philosophic basis for the reconstruction of society itself.

in Occurrences 72%

The Bostons started with a man on base in the third.

on Occurrences 71%

Struck outWood 11; Tesreau 4; Crandall 2. Bases on ballsWood 2; Tesreau 4.

to Occurrences 63%

But it is only to the northward that the entire range, from base to summit, is covered with lava.

for Occurrences 58%

First of all, Daubert has earned his place at first base for the season of 1912.

in Occurrences 50%

It was agreed, as these men coulden't run the bases, that a man be blindfolded and wheel these aged cripples about the bases in a wheel-barrer.

at Occurrences 33%

' Worn out by his worries, Schuyler fell ill and was sent to command the base at Albany.

as Occurrences 23%

Such are the results of palaeontology as they appear, and have for some years appeared, to the mind of an inquirer who regards that study simply as one of the applications of the great biological sciences, and who desires to see it placed upon the same sound basis as other branches of physical inquiry.

as Occurrences 17%

Indeed he might have had letters after his name save for the fact that hethe Colonelwould never recommend a man unless his discipline was as good as his leading, and his conduct at the base as praiseworthy as at the front.

than Occurrences 16%

He stole more bases than any other player of the league, and was also the best run getterthat is to say, scored more runs than any other player.

with Occurrences 16%

Morris left the base with similar designs on Shaw, and every one, with the exception of the den-keepers, seemed suddenly seized with an irresistible desire to do something.

with Occurrences 13%

The scenery of all the passes, especially at the head, is of the wildest and grandest description,lofty peaks massed together and laden around their bases with ice and snow; chains of glacier lakes; cascading streams in endless variety, with glorious views, westward over a sea of rocks and woods, and eastward over strange ashy plains, volcanoes, and the dry, dead-looking ranges of the Great Basin.

from Occurrences 12%

But Canada was directly engaged in no more than the first three campaigns, when the Americans invaded her in 1775 and '76, and when the British used her as the base from which to invade the new American Republic in 1777.

than Occurrences 11%

The evidence furnished by the hewing, facing, and superposition of the stones of the Pyramids, that these structures were built by men, has no greater weight than the evidence that the chalk was built by Globigerinoe; and the belief that those ancient pyramid-builders were terrestrial and air-breathing creatures like ourselves, is not better based than the conviction that the chalk-makers lived in the sea.

to Occurrences 11%

With one out in the second inning Herzog batted for three bases to center field and scored on Meyers' single.

of Occurrences 8%

Rousseau commenced his career as an author with the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, 1750 (the discussion of a prize question, crowned by the Academy of Dijon), which he describes as entirely pernicious, and the Discourse on the Origin and the Bases of the Inequality among Men, 1753.

from Occurrences 8%

"True, I saw a lot of Angela, but my dealings with her were on a basis from start to finish of the purest and most wholesome camaraderie.

at Occurrences 7%

Considering that the army was operating in a devastated hostile country, a thousand miles away from its bases at Halifax and Louisbourg, and that the interaction of the different servicesnaval and military, Imperial and Colonialrequired adjustment to a nicety at every turn, it was wonderful that so much was done so well with means which were far from being adequate.

into Occurrences 5%

Original matter was considered as the elementary cause of all beings, by which they expected literally to work miracles, to transmute the base into noble metals, to metamorphose man in his animal state by chemical processes, to render him more durable, and to secure him against early decline and dissolution.

by Occurrences 5%

We can only undermine its base by too searching an analysis of that upon which it is built.

without Occurrences 4%

British vigilance had been lax or the German fleet could never have gone so far from its base without discovery; and this laxity proved costly for the British; and might even have proven more costly still.

by Occurrences 3%

Rumania, Serbia and Montenegro are to be evacuated and occupied territories restored: a free and secure access to the sea for Serbia; mutual relations between the Balkan States to be determined on a friendly basis by a Council, following the lines of friendship and nationality traced by tradition and history; the political and economic integrity of the various Balkan States to be guaranteed.

Which preposition to use with  bases