Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] a basis for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Republic 's Foreign Minister , Dick Spring , who will co-chair the conference meeting with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , Sir Patrick Mayhew , confirmed that finding a basis for re-opening the talks would be high on the agenda on Friday . |
| 2 | They viewed the law as providing a basis for the teacher 's authority to exert discipline within the school , but lamented the fact that the legal limits were derived from a collection of diverse sources , more especially case law or precedent under common law . |
| 3 | The passage which follows has commonly been taken as providing a basis for subsequent conceptions of the role and function of professional English teaching . |
| 4 | This is a felicitous choice , since it serves the dual purpose of examining design at the same time as providing a basis for a definition of art , from which it is distinguished . |
| 5 | Some firms have adopted a formula which reserves a power to prevent more than one partner departing in any given period ( say a year ) , with complementary provisions to determine priority as between notices served on the same day , though in these frantic head-hunting times when whole departments may be recruited at a stroke , such provisions are realistically best seen as providing a basis for negotiation ( and perhaps financial adjustment by way of compensation ) . |