Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] a basis " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has important implications for patient preference as such studies should provide a basis for each person to assign his or her own values to different levels of risk and benefit . |
| 2 | The Territorial Army should provide a basis for the expansion of our forces and as a general reserve . |
| 3 | This should provide a basis for suggesting how best to manage the transfer of knowledge and personnel from research to commercial exploitation while ensuring the health of scientific research is maintained and promoted . |
| 4 | United States President George Bush met Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Helsinki for a one-day emergency summit which emphasized the shared opposition of the superpowers to Iraq 's seizure of Kuwait , although the Soviet Union repeatedly underscored its belief that any eventual military action must have a basis in UN agreement . |
| 5 | This chapter should form a basis of a comprehensive check-list for successful site investigation , but is certainly not exhaustive . |
| 6 | Planned tutorials or lectures can be programmed for material which might provide a basis for development . |
| 7 | SucH communities might provide a basis for a neighbourhood approach to management , or for some development of the parish council concept ( Boaden et al . |
| 8 | Its report suggested some principles which might provide a basis for action . |
| 9 | Ties which might provide a basis for group cohesion included regional origins ( reinforced by the domain system ) , shared caste , family relationships or occupation . |
| 10 | Erm first of all can I put the county on notice to er respond later on this afternoon to the thesis expanded by Professor Lock that er it might be tenable to start calculating employment land requirements based on numbers of employed or numbers in employment or desired ai or employment levels to be aimed at , er and coupled with that , is there anything in the figures which they have produced in either their submission or and and its appendices which actually might form a basis for that sort of calculation ? |
| 11 | If cells in the progress zone of the mouse limb bud or the chick limb bud are damaged often merely a hand develops attached to the shoulder and this may provide a basis for understanding the effects of thalidomide . |
| 12 | Weber admits that a common market situation may provide a basis for collective class action but he sees this only as a possibility . |
| 13 | may provide a basis for selecting people for further education and training |
| 14 | The story may have a basis in fact ; it is possible there was a prehistoric dwelling here that is now swallowed up in the mud at the bottom of the lake . |
| 15 | Stafford describes various Mozart myths : his eccentricity ‘ may have a basis in fact , but fact that has been selected , heightened and coloured … by its emphasis and selectivity it runs the risk of exaggeration . ’ |
| 16 | The image of the irresponsible student may have a basis in various periods of higher education ( in medieval times , in eighteenth-century Oxbridge , and in the late 1960s across the Western world ) . |
| 17 | Ministers took a similarly careful line on the issue of interest rates [ see pp. 37977-78 ; 38314 ] , noting that " those countries which in the future experience better than expected inflation performance may have a basis for an easing of monetary conditions and interest rates without jeopardizing the commitment to price stability and exchange rate objectives " . |
| 18 | It may well be argued that the government was able to defeat the General Strike by its propaganda campaigns , the arrest of Communist activists , the use of volunteers and by sheer patience , in allowing the General Council 's Negotiating Committee to spend several futile days negotiating the Samuel Memorandum in the hope that it would provide a basis for a settlement . |
| 19 | This did not mean a slavish copying of mediaeval motifs , but rather that the style would provide a basis from which a future architecture would develop , using modern materials and techniques . |
| 20 | It aimed to gather material on consumer perspectives on shopping , which would provide a basis for advice given to local co-operatives . |
| 21 | Assessments of this sort would form a basis for quantitative calculations of the needs of the future . |
| 22 | The committee was established to recommend a model of how the English language ( whether spoken or written ) works , which would form a basis for teacher training and professional discussion of English teaching ; to recommend how and how far this model should be made explicit to pupils ; and to recommend what pupils should be taught and be expected to understand by the ages of 7 , 11 and 16 . |
| 23 | We will describe a basis as alternating if the first row contains one basic variable ( which must be a 1 ) and the remaining rows contain two basic variables ( a 1 and a 0 ) . |
| 24 | The issue of whether breach of the CSA 1985 will provide a basis for liability in tort for breach of statutory duty is one on which the courts have not yet been asked to decide . |
| 25 | In itself , this information will not affect the immediate distribution of manpower but it will provide a basis for planning for changes in the manpower profile for each managerial unit . |
| 26 | The outcomes of this study will provide a basis for future planning and development . |
| 27 | Furthermore , identification of the sources of happiness will provide a basis for understanding the duration of certain emotions in connection with particular events in life . |
| 28 | The research undertaken will provide a basis for nature conservation in the wider countryside and aid the promotion of nature conservation values . |
| 29 | The research will provide a basis for assessing the nature of the politics of race at the local level . |
| 30 | Comparisons with those who do not report homesickness will provide a basis for understanding differences in attitude and adjustment to a new environment . |