Example sentences of "basis for [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 However , the basis for drawing the graph depends on many uncertainties and is very fragile , and while it shows the potential contribution of die studies and studies of output to our understanding of ancient economies , it is far from certain that it is historically accurate .
2 When the four remaining parts of the lower dome have been built high enough to form a complete circle within the walls of the square , this circle provides the basis for supporting the actual dome .
3 In addition , the Medway Letter Line is the basis for calculating the cost benefit of all schemes carried out on rivers by water authorities and other organizations .
4 The approximation was ( and is ) used as a basis for calculating the date of the paschal moon and hence determining when Easter occurs .
5 Coordination or control of management information systems , inter alia , to provide the basis for calculating the cost of resources , and establishing effective monitoring and control mechanisms throughout .
6 Tests by the American Association of State Highway Officials in the early 1960s are the basis for calculating the damage to roads .
7 If the staffing ratio of seven pupils to each teacher , recommended in circular 4/73 ( DES 1973 ) , is accepted as a basis for calculating the necessary teaching force for this group , then 1,225 teachers would be required .
8 I am confident that Government policies provide , and will continue to provide , an appropriate basis for meeting the high expectations that society has for the future .
9 My suggestion is that impartiality of one type or another and perhaps other qualities of decision-makers might be the basis for regarding the law as a locus of moral authority .
10 Secondly , if knowledgeable doctors in good faith adopt differing practices , there is a pragmatic basis for regarding the issue as unresolved .
11 These multi-word islands were then used , much as the seed words in HWIM , as the basis for expanding the interpretation according to top-down predictions .
12 Sonar made interesting contacts but could not identify them directly , while passive underwater photography ( photographing whatever passes a given spot ) had the potential to reveal essential detail but could not be expected to make contact without a much sounder basis for deploying the cameras .
13 The legislation is now likely to prove the basis for implementing the referendum it failed to forestall .
14 The committee recognised that there was increasing use of the ‘ f ’ spelling in English publications and that there was no good etymological basis for preferring the ‘ ph ’ spelling .
15 A Soviet statement in March 1958 had called for the establishment of collective security in both Europe and Asia as a basis for destroying the Western-inspired pacts , NATO and SEATO .
16 It is not yet known whether research would confirm these hypotheses of the character of certain distinct twentieth-century paranational cultural formations , though they provide an initial basis for considering the contradictory character of the history of the avant-garde movements : that they represent sharp and even violent breaks with received and traditional practices ( a dissidence or revolt rather than a literal avant garde ) ; and yet that they become ( in ways separable from the important facts of their dilution and commercial exploitation ) the dominant culture of a succeeding metropolitan and paranational period .
17 Erm I would have liked to have produced some er tables and diagrams to go with this document , but you will appreciate within the time that we had available , erm that there was insufficient time available to er to prepare that but hopefully that will give you er a basis for considering the , relative merits of the various a various erm sectors around York .
18 The information and recommendations contained in the report provide an excellent basis for building the flexible and responsive approach in relation to Europe which will be required over the next few years .
19 In the United Sterling case the basis for dismissing the motion was that there was no evidence that the defendant was given any special information which he ought to have regarded as a separate part of his stock of knowledge which an honest employee would have recognised as property of the employer .
20 G. D. H. Cole 's The People 's Front , the Club choice for July 1937 , looked to local readers groups as the main basis for developing the agitation .
21 This will give us a basis for quantifying the size of the market over the next decade .
22 For example , a study of the debasement trends of sixth-to seventh-century AD European gold coinage provided a basis for dating the Sutton Hoo ship burial .
23 On only one point is there evidence which would seem to give some basis for dating the competition , namely a marginal note in Mecdi 's article on Hocazade which states that the latter was kadi of Edirne the position to which he went alter holding the professorship of the Zeyrek medrese — in 871/1466–7 , " a few documents written by him " having been seen .
24 Delegates from Belgium , West Germany , France , the Netherlands , Luxemburg and Italy , met at Messina , in 1955 , and that meeting produced the basis for forming the European Economic Council .
25 Certainly there will be no ground-plan in reality to which the writer can refer to discover a basis for organising the text .
26 During the second phase , the analysts had also investigated systems that were then available for filing system support , using statements given in the FAOR report as a basis for defining the type and level of system required , eg :
27 The objectives represent the basis for defining the regions eligible for aid and it is the structurally backward , or Objective 1 regions , which receive the major share of the Structural Funds ( 77 per cent ) .
28 Ranking project proposals in terms of fit with company objectives , then creating a ranking list from the best of these on agreed financial criteria provides the basis for choosing the projects to which available R&D resources will be allocated .
29 Any one , or a combination of these , may be chosen as the basis for choosing the work-places from which a sample can be selected .
30 Ranking project proposals in terms of fit with company objectives , then creating a ranking list from the best of these on agreed financial criteria provides the basis for choosing the projects to which available R&D resources will be allocated .
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