Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] the basis " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the pub , after a meeting devoted to tasting home-made wine , Nigel and Simon were asked what they thought was the basis of conservatism . |
| 2 | Peter Robinson , Liverpool 's chief executive , said the plan for top English , Scottish and Irish clubs to play a knock-out competition had been the basis for the agreement to reduce the First Division . |
| 3 | He was often away in the West Riding , where he now owned several woollen mills which had been the basis of his father 's fortune . |
| 4 | The great Newtonian synthesis of cosmology and physics , which had been the basis of the scientific revolution , was found to be faulty . |
| 5 | The well-tried Roman policy of divide and rule had been the basis of Augustan diplomacy and continued during the conquest . |
| 6 | Rugby nightmares replaced nightmares about witches , which had been the basis of my bad dreams for several years . |
| 7 | Suppose , for example , that there was some fundamental change in the circumstances that had been the basis for the grant of the right to the third party , and that this change radically transformed the extent of the obligations of the parties . |
| 8 | The development of new methods of transport , especially the railroads , allied to the exploitation of the nation 's plentiful resources of iron and coal , and later oil , had been the basis of a massive industrial expansion in the post-Civil War period . |
| 9 | The northern industrial regions , in contrast , were dominated by the older sectors which had been the basis of earlier expansion . |
| 10 | On Aug. 6 David Levi , the Israeli Foreign Minister , gave the Knesset foreign affairs and defence committee the details of a series of " understandings " with the USA which had been the basis of Israel 's conditional assent to attend the conference . |