Example sentences of "basis for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her fiction tackled social issues — suicide , divorce , abortion , and prostitution — whilst her spectacular play , Votes for Women ( 1907 ) , the basis for the novel , The Convert ( 1907 ) , began suffrage theatre . |
| 2 | The weakness of the Soviet position internationally reflected the weakness of the Soviet economy , which accounted for a small and diminishing share of world trade and provided no secure basis for the exercise of global influence . |
| 3 | Moreover , just as important as stressing the plurality of political resources , which form the basis for the exercise of power , pluralist approaches tend to stress the contingency of transforming the potential for political power offered by the possession of such resources into the actual exercise of power . |
| 4 | The means of ensuring the imposition of law and order is necessary , but not sufficient , as a basis for the exercise of power in a democracy ; whereas , in a dictatorship such as Franco 's , it was not only necessary , but also sufficient . |
| 5 | Some of these surveys , for example the one carried out in Birmingham , illustrate the different impact of the tax if individuals rather than households are chosen as the basis for the calculation . |
| 6 | This provides a conservative basis for the calculation of indirect employment . |
| 7 | The adjustment provides a conservative basis for the calculation of direct employment since it is less than the 7.5% ‘ gap ’ noted above and makes no allowance for the 2% employed in Scotch Whisky companies who are not members of the SWA . |
| 8 | It is chiefly famous among Christians as the clear basis for the text of the Magnificat . |
| 9 | Obviously this method is highly appropriate for traditions of oral transmission ; collectively known schemes provide a basis for the act of performance-cum-composition . |
| 10 | Ohmann 's detransforming technique seems to provide some linguistic basis for the idea of stylistic " neutrality " mentioned in 1 3.1 . |
| 11 | Mr. Beloff submitted that there is no basis for the implication of a term to create an exception to the prohibition contained in the injunction to the effect of ‘ otherwise than pursuant to a section 39 notice . ’ |
| 12 | This is of great importance in providing a basis for the cultivation of cereals and the grazing of animals in an area where opportunities for agriculture are severely restricted . |
| 13 | Such an arrangement combines rigidity with flexibility and in addition to its protective function the cuticle determines the form of the insect , its relative impermeability to water reduces desiccation and it provides a firm basis for the attachment of muscles . |
| 14 | The functions of the tentorium are ( 1 ) to afford a basis for the attachment of many of the cephalic muscles and , at the same time , to give rigidity to the head ; ( 2 ) to lend support to the brain and fore intestine ; ( 3 ) to strengthen the points of articulation of certain of the mouthparts . |
| 15 | For example , it is possible to snip through the genes of the vaccinia viruses ( one of which is the basis for the vaccine against smallpox ) and stitch in some threads of DNA from the rabies virus . |
| 16 | WITH the eradication of smallpox by WHO 's successful vaccination campaign , it may have seemed that vaccinia , the cowpox virus that is the basis for the vaccine and which gave vaccination its name , might at last be ready to bow out from its central role in world medicine . |
| 17 | A possible basis for the contrast was suggested : proper names single out principal protagonists in narratives , and so , even in the simplest of materials , will tend to put the named character in a role which is likely to be different from that played by a character introduced through a noun . |
| 18 | If required , the activities could be prioritised on the basis of whether they were primary , secondary , support or control activities , providing the basis for the evaluation of any proposed systems . |
| 19 | Formula can , on the one hand , itself take on a positive significance , and on the other , it can provide a traditionally understood basis for the performance of individual variants ( which is what we found in the Billie Holiday recording ) . |
| 20 | The basis for the continuum they put forward is was the level of processing to which the input is subjected . |
| 21 | But the conclusion drawn was not that there was a certain contradiction between the pursuit of material and mental achievement , but that one was the necessary basis for the other . |
| 22 | The formative advantages of the record are considerable ; it provides an on-going record which can be used for evaluative purposes by student , teacher and parent , and thereby a basis for the consideration of future planning of learning and teaching . |
| 23 | In France , psychoanalysis has been taken more seriously by both feminists and philosophers , and the psychoanalytic model used as a basis for the reconceptualisation of a number of philosophical issues . |
| 24 | The principle of self-determination enunciated by America 's President Woodrow Wilson as the basis for the peace conference in Paris in 1918 , led to the request of senior Egyptians led by Sa'ad Zaghlul that a Wafd ( delegation ) be sent to represent Egypt , Zaghulul was of peasant background and was a charismatic figure with great appeal to the public , among whom he was popularly known as al zaim , the leader . |
| 25 | The basis for the proposition that individual women may improve their own prospects and those of their young children as regards health and mortality is the evidence that age at marriage and at childbearing , the amount of time that elapses between births and the total number of children that a woman has borne at various ages have a pronounced influence upon maternal and child health , and that a child 's birth order may be a factor in its survival chances . |
| 26 | Yet the basis for the identification of ‘ topic ’ is rarely made explicit . |
| 27 | Different viewpoints lead to different models which , in turn require different measures of performance , and it is necessary to ensure that the model used as the basis for the audit is one that reflects the organisation 's needs in relation to the procedure . |
| 28 | IBM UK 's environmental operations chairman , John Gillett , claims however that BATNEEC was indeed the basis for the audit . |
| 29 | The auditor should ascertain the audited body 's system of recording and processing transactions and assess its adequacy as a basis for the preparation of financial statements . |
| 30 | So what he 's got to do , erm if he rejects theism , if , on the basis of the diversity of human moral opinion , he has no faith in conscience or any form of moral intuition or any form of religious revelation , he 's got to find some way of arguing that there can be another rational basis for the criticism of moral and social systems . |