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

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1 It must be questioned whether there is any basis for the continued separate treatment of rights and obligations .
2 At bottom then there was some democratic basis for the Unionist case , for the government was pressing on with a reform that they knew was not backed by the electorate .
3 In common with other mammalian species , the individual chromosomes of the mouse can be recognized by using a variety of different banding methods but G-banding has found the greatest favour and also provides the basis for the standard idiogram which is illustrated in Figure 4 .
4 The main basis for the empirical work is information available from the Family Expenditure Survey .
5 This was to be the legal basis for the armed detachments of workers who were supposed to confiscate surplus grain and the hoards of speculators .
6 The basis for the easy triumphs which had over and again given new nourishment to the ‘ Hitler myth ’ was gone , even if trust in the Führer was still generally strong .
7 In reality , the basis for the prevailing sense of optimism was nothing more than a sense that , with hostilities now ended , everyone could get back to business as usual .
8 Menlo Park California-based Network General Corp is offering another system for its Sniffer Network Analyser : a new version will run on the Toshiba Corp T6400/DX2 colour portable running at 50MHz ; currently the new implementation supports only Ethernet , but Token Ring support is promised for the second quarter ; the move looks as if it has been caused by the chronic shortage of the Compaq Computer Corp machines that form the basis for the existing Sniffer systems .
9 Firstly , it has its roots in commodity production and private ownership of property and , as such , forms the basis for the gradual development of capitalism , through increases in the scale of production .
10 It was a long document ( as one speaker remarked , there was a danger it would grow so long that no one would read it ) , but after only two days of discussion the fathers voted overwhelmingly to accept the draft as the basis for the final document and went on to debate it section by section .
11 Moreover , the pretrial phase dominated the process to the extent that the pretrial dossier formed the basis for the final verdict without being put to further searching judicial scrutiny .
12 This is our basis for the following .
13 Bcl-2 mitigates the apoptotic effects of deregulated c-Myc expression without affecting its ability to promote continuous cell growth , so providing a mechanistic basis for the oncogenic synergy between these two proto-oncogenes .
14 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 .
15 Government incentives , both in the North Sea and in most other parts of the world , are designed to ensure continuous ploughing back into exploration , because after all , that is the basis for the future prosperity of the country , taking , as most countries do , so large a part of the ultimate revenue .
16 The research has provided a basis for the future assessment of specific LEAs and the comparability of the results with a major national survey of 13 other LEAs makes them more generally applicable .
17 If the pillars are really in the proper places , there is not a stone on the site long enough to act as a lintel , and to provide a basis for the stone-built superstructures which at present sit on Evans ' concrete and iron supports .
18 To investigate the molecular basis for the wide specificity of protein G for IgG , we prepared crystals of the complex between the third IgG-binding domain of protein G and an Fab fragment from mouse IgG1 ( ref. 5 ) .
19 What , for example , is the basis for the influential role doctors have been able to play in health service policies ?
20 They are the basis for the audible component of belching through oesophagopharyngeal passage of gas and occur independently of swallowing , having a somewhat longer time course than the UOS relaxation induced by swallowing .
21 This book will therefore explain some of these ordinary means , even though they may be familiar to most moviegoers , as a basis for the extraordinary and generally more elaborate means that are known as SFX .
22 Longitudinal studies of this kind have been very limited , and the study should provide an excellent basis for the critical examination of self-identity theory .
23 These include the idea of joint review of progress by students and teachers , and the idea of centre rather than pupil accreditation as the basis for the external moderation of records of achievement .
24 In his first major memorandum to the committee ( the famous Basic Problems of Social Security with Heads of a Scheme ) , Beveridge argued that the crux of the problem was to raise pensions sufficiently to dispense with means-tested supplementation from the Assistance Board ( so that the insurance basis for the entire social security plan would not be eroded ) , and concluded that ‘ these pensions will be paid on proof of age , without means test and without proof of disability or retirement from work ’ .
25 The aim of this introductory study ( ‘ prolegomena ’ ) was to make clear the basis for the entire enterprise and the methods which it would use , and the emphasis on ‘ the doctrine of the Word of God ’ signalled Barth 's intention to ground it on God 's own revelation of himself and nothing else .
26 At a regional scale , the imagery provides the basis for the geological mapping .
27 More recently another historian , G. W. Trompf in his study The Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought , has drawn attention to the prevalence of what he calls ‘ notions of re-enactment ’ in the Old Testament which formed an ideological basis for the great Israelite festivals .
28 Dr Michael Burgess wishes to disaggregate the basis for the outstanding FT-SE 100 contracts into two parts : the dividend effect ( D ( 1 + r ) ) and the foregone interest effect ( Sr ) .
29 As neutral sodium absorption , however , is not the main absorptive pathway for sodium in the human descending colon , the basis for the present findings remains unclear and an antisecretory effect of SCFA is not excluded .
30 The argument here is that it is tax schedules as shown in Table 16.6 , widely publicized in newspapers and annual tax returns , which form the basis for the ordinary citizen 's notion of tax burden .
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