11.   Military personnel are not surveyed, for example, so an Army corporal moonlighting off base as a bartender or store clerk shows up as holding only one job.

12.   On Wall Street, to readmit a failure would suggest that the whole business is a crapshoot, based as much on luck as skill.

13.   Popular knowledge of the Alamo is based as much on legend as on fact.

14.   The attention was based as much on politics as on the creative reputations of those involved.

15.   The new alliance pulls the Liberal Democrats farther to the right, but it appears to have been based as much on arithmetic as anything else.

16.   The researchers, based as the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, are aiming to build a new breed of cheap polystyrene-based batteries.

17.   The radicalism was fuzzy, based as much on legalizing drugs as on utopian socialism.

18.   There is a path ahead, based as in the rest of Asia on the proposition that institutional upgrading must proceed in step with economic development.

19.   This time around, the decision to say no was based as much on the price tag attached to the plan as on the political sensitivity.

20.   Women form tight bonds with their female friends and neighbors, but their friendships are based as much on commiseration and mutual assistance as on compatibility.