Example sentences of "this [is] the basis " in BNC.

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1 This is the basis for national unity .
2 Cocoa butter , the rich fatty substance in the beans , is extracted from the ground nibs and this is the basis of the chocolate industry .
3 This is the basis of conventional radiocarbon dating .
4 This is the basis of cross-dating : being able to associate a tree-ring sequence of unknown age with one of known age by matching one pattern with another .
5 This is the basis of its antiulcer action .
6 This is the basis of all imaginative acts , that through emotion something absent is brought into the present .
7 This is the basis for discriminatory planning and foresight .
8 An electron descending from one shell to a lower one emits an X-ray of a characteristic energy ( this is the basis of X-ray fluorescence analysis ) .
9 Whether or not it is good fortune to fall in love with the person you marry , our culture dictates that this is the basis of proper marriage .
10 The directors added that they had done so because ‘ this is the basis adopted in the accounts of the overseas subsidiaries ’ , and that the group accounts should be drawn up on the same basis in order to show a true and fair view .
11 This is the basis of Paul 's theology of the social freedom inherent in the gospel .
12 This is the basis of English rib and Fisherman 's rib , which we 'll come to in a later article .
13 This is the basis of ‘ critical-path analysis ’ where such a network can be analysed .
14 This is the basis for many complex circus acts performed by animals .
15 This is the basis of the distinction between ‘ paternalism ’ and what Hart calls ‘ legal moralism ’ , for :
16 This is the basis for property speculation and investment in antiques or works of art .
17 This is the basis of our earlier argument that states are being drawn , willy-nilly , into a new game with more complex rules and far greater demands on the skills of public servants .
18 This is the basis upon which the English court has set aside convictions resting upon identification conducted in an unfair or unsatisfactory manner .
19 This is the basis of section 3 of the Act which , of course , only applies after an order has been made by the court for the taking of evidence .
20 This is the basis of the test for hemispheric speech representation first described by Wada ( 1949 ) .
21 This is the basis of your life ; there is no such thing as teaching in the sense of having knowledge injected into you .
22 This is the basis on which the various elements in the answers to the questions given on page 145 have been labelled as given or new .
23 As we have stressed , this is the basis of a capitalist industrial economy , hence we can see why in the final analysis the disruption of authority in industry should be regarded as being so critical .
24 The control exercised by Mosca 's ‘ ruling class ’ is held to be assured by the organisational capacity of the ruling minority : this is the basis of their power and the characteristic that best distinguishes them from the disorganised and powerless majority .
25 This is the basis of artificial intelligence work .
26 This is the basis of the Dionysiac experience : the collapse of individuation .
27 This is the basis of fractional distillation .
28 This is the basis on which my branch believes that we need a new rule which covers branches .
29 And this is the basis on which the D O E have put in their figure , it 's the basis on which we have put in a figure for vacant dwellings , and also the H B F.
30 This is the basis adopted in Precedent 1 by the inclusion of cl 14 .
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