Example sentences of "some basis for [art] " in BNC.

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1 There were few dramatic new developments during October in the Gulf crisis as such , the continuing build-up of the United States-dominated military response taking place against a background of diplomatic activity , of which the most notable feature was an apparently unsuccessful Soviet attempt to find some basis for a peace initiative .
2 The original division between those mentally handicapped children who were considered educable and those who were not formed some basis for the future classification of the mentally handicapped .
3 Kyle et al. ( 1981 ) describe a further series of measures which relate to the factors presented above but which allow us to consider some basis for the prediction of sign language skills .
4 As it sweeps on , through Greece and Rome , dark ages and renaissance , world empire and industrial revolution , towards this present century of war and destruction , it succeeds in suggesting that , against all the odds , there may still be some basis for the political and economic union now intensively , if fractiously , under discussion .
5 One might also say that the content of the request for information could provide some basis for the content of the response , especially when the request is for the meaning of an expression to be given .
6 The recorded statistics on UK trade provided some basis for the continuation of this picture through most of the twentieth century .
7 Is there some basis for the sound symbolism ?
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