The Harwich submarines were sent out in advance to scout and to attack any enemy ships that might issue from the German bases to support their light craft.
All the decorations are of marble and gilded bronze, and the capitals and bases of the columns and pilasters, and the window-frames and balustrades of the balconies, of cast bronze richly gilded.
They consisted of four iron spikes joined together at their bases in such a manner that however they were thrown down one point would always be pointing upwards (fig.
Early in the 15th century we find cannon throwing metal balls, not only against hoarding and battlements, but also to breach the bases of the walls.
He was the real master of Tuscany, and the bases of his rule were equality of all subjects before the law, honesty in the administration of justice and toleration of opinion, but he totally neglected the moral improvement of the people.
Keim bases his advocacy of the existence of the Sanhedrin at the time of Christ on New Testament authority.
The Baconians do not know it; Mr. Greenwood, if he knows it, ignores it, and bases his argument on facts which may be unknown to his readers.
This cannot be converted as follows: Triangles whose areas are equal, have likewise equal bases and lengths; for the lengths may stand in inverse proportion to the bases.
But who bases his conviction of that geometrical truth upon this proof?
The following theorem gives an instance of this: Triangles whose lengths and bases are equal, include equal areas.
The fact of the shoots appearing from the bases of the stems which had been cut down in the small clearing above mentioned, gave us good opportunities of seeing the effects of exposure to the sun.
So great is the tendency in palms to throw out roots towards the base, that these roots exist in the common Khujoor, although they have to get rid of the indurated bases of the petioles before they can make their exit.
Borassus commences to be common; it is a taller, and more slender tree than that of Coromandel, and the trunk is not covered with the persistent bases of the petioles.
The road is very winding in consequence of its following the bases of the hills forming the southern boundary of the valley.
The city is situated at the termination of one of the shingly slopes, which are universal between the bases of the hills, and the cultivated portion of the valley.
The road still grew more and more picturesque, and now lay along ridges, at the bases of which were deep ravines and hollow valleys.
In my first sketch of the Val d' Arno I said that the Arno seemed to hold its course near the bases of the hills.
Beyond, and on all sides of the city, the hills pile themselves lazily upward in ridges, here and there developing into a peak; towards their bases white villas were strewn numerously, but the upper region was lonely and bare.
On the side of the light their bases were in close contact with the sand, which was here a very little heaped up; on the opposite or shaded side there were open, crescentic cracks or furrows, rather above .
The three leaflets also bend upwards, and at the same time [page 345] approach each other, so that the base of the central leaflet overlaps the bases of the two lateral leaflets.
At this age the petioles are curved [page 310] upwards, and at night, when the bases of the blades are in contact, the two petioles together form a vertical ring surrounding the plumule.
Straight, thin, black lines of this length were now drawn from the bases of the short petioles along the hypocotyls Fig.
The blades of both then withered, and on removing the earth the bases of the petioles (instead of the radicle) were found enlarged into little tubers.
Movements of this kind are well known to occur in the Gramineae, and are effected by means of the thickened bases of their sheathing leaves; the stem within being in this part thinner than elsewhere.
Gebelii, and probably of the other species, are provided at their bases with distinct pulvini, of a yellowish colour, and formed of very small cells.
It is possible that some light may have been reflected upwards from the soil and entered the bases of these 7 tubes, as the sun shone brightly, though bits of blackened paper had been placed on the soil round them.
Their tips now almost touched one another, their bases being slightly divergent.
This is of especial importance to Ibn Daud because upon it he bases a new proof of the existence of God, not heretofore found in the works of any of his predecessors.
Philosophy and independent reasoning on such difficult matters as God and creation are after all more or less guess work, and cannot be made the bases of religion except for those who have nothing better.
Maimonides frankly bases his entire argument from motion (provisionally to be sure) upon the Aristotelian theory, including eternity of motion.
To these he adds provisionally another proposition, number twenty-six, concerning the eternity of motion, upon which he bases his proof of the existence of God in order to be safe from all criticism.
It is clear from this account that matter and form are the bases of sublunar life and existence.
Maimonides's criticism of the atomic theory of matter and motion just described is that it undermines the bases of geometry.
Nor is Maimonides to be imitated, who bases his proof of the existence of God on the theory of eternity.
To give his ethical doctrine a scientific character, Maimonides bases it upon a metaphysical and psychological foundation.
This arrangement, it will be seen, enables them to economise the half of the wax intended for making the bases of the cells.
They economise it still more by making the bases and the sides of the tubes extremely thin; the borders only of the comb being fortified by an excess of wax.
The portions of the earth's surface which we term plains are nothing more than the broad summits of hills and mountains whose basesrest on the bottom of the ocean.
As Deussen observes, Kant's argument which bases immortality on the realization of the moral law, attainable only by an infinite process of approximation, points to transmigration rather than immortality in the usual sense.
The two silver-gilt candlesticks are extremely fine examples of seventeenth century plate; they are rather squat in shape, with large bases richly embossed.
Ethelred's church, dating from the first decade of the eleventh century; but their bases belong to the Norman restoration, and were probably put in by Cricklade.
The mouldings are later, and the old bases of the windows still in the east wall are clearly of transitional character, differing essentially from those belonging to corner shafts in the east aisles of the transepts.
German bases and devoting its attention exclusively to work behind the enemy lines.
The object of these experiments was to find the readiest method of separating wool oil into its basesand acids, and further to identify the various fatty acids.
These acids, being in combination with the bases of the oil, would be set free only on saponifying the oil and subsequently decomposing with acid.
They are thickenings of the ectoderm, which either enclose the bases of the sense-organs, or only cover the ventral side of the same.
The valley measured from the edges of the escarpments of the upper plain FF is about a mile in width; but from the bases of the bounding mountains it is from three to four miles wide.
The bay of San Carlos is in most parts bounded by precipitous cliffs from about ten to forty feet in height, their bases being separated from the present line of tidal action by a talus, a few feet in height, covered with vegetation.
But, though you can't see it from the top here, those bases are fearfully irregular and a cliff forty feet high may take miles to go round.
Yet his persistent accumulation of harsh and dread traits seems wilful in its nature; he bases his description, no doubt, on hints from Scripture, but he pays no attention to any that do not fall in with his own narrow and gloomy conception.
It consists of three semi-arches whose bases stand equi-dis-tant from each other in the circumference of a circle and unite in the centre.
The semilunar valves of the aorta were ossified at their bases and apices, and the portion intermediate, between the base and apex, partly ossified, and partly cartilaginous, so as to render the valves very rigid.
The semilunar valves of the pulmonary artery had their bases slightly ossified, and the remaining part thickened.
The semilunar valves of the pulmonary artery and aorta were unusually small, and their bases cartilaginous.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bases" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
