Example sentences of "as the basis " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the choreographer thinks he can use the purely classical vocabulary as the basis of his design it will fail to convey the totally different world from which this ancient epic emerged . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , this apparent similarity of method has been used as the basis for attempts , tentative and unlikely as they are , to find a rapprochement between Marxism and deconstruction . |
| 3 | He told delegates the party 's programme for improving and protecting the environment was founded on four principles — ‘ a presumption against pollution ; the principle that the polluter pays ; precaution as the basis for all policy ; and freedom of environmental information ’ . |
| 4 | Sixty-two MPs , equally divided between Christians and Muslims , have been in this Saudi resort for the past two weeks examining a ‘ National Reconciliation Charter ’ drafted by Arab League mediators as the basis for a permanent peace . |
| 5 | A government elected to cut public spending and reduce inflation as the basis for economic recovery had achieved , it seemed , exactly the reverse . |
| 6 | The National Health Service , though evidently under-funded , was to survive as the basis of the health-care system of the nation . |
| 7 | In return , Trident would be offered as a replacement for the ageing Polaris submarine-based missiles as the basis of the so-called ‘ British independent deterrent ’ . |
| 8 | On the other hand it is possible to differentiate the nature and effects of the human rights ‘ declared ’ by the United Nations from those asserted as the basis of the American state in the second section of the Declaration of Independence . |
| 9 | There was a time , no doubt — it must have been before 1948 , when the United Kingdom itself abolished allegiance as the basis of citizenship — when the pretence of daughter monarchies around the globe was harmless and even arguably beneficial . |
| 10 | In 1948 they abolished allegiance as the basis of the status of British subjects . |
| 11 | The British used the four ‘ freedoms ’ agreed at the Commonwealth meeting in October 1943 as the basis for discussion , but refused to consider a US proposal for a fifth freedom : the right to pick up passengers , mail , and freight at intermediate stops not in the country of origin of the airline or its ultimate destination . |
| 12 | The second is that these differences are the product of the influence of the ‘ new right ’ and its emphasis on market freedoms as the basis of civil and political liberty . |
| 13 | For Engels its significance lies in the fact that it was seen as the basis of what was to be the most dramatic change in the history of mankind . |
| 14 | If they had just looked at the laws governing slavery , as had done both their contemporaries and more recent social scientists , they would have been unable to distinguish between slavery as a minor and rare form of exploitation , on the one hand , supplying occasional domestic and sexual luxuries , and slavery as the basis of whole economies , on the other hand , where most of production is carried out by slave labour . |
| 15 | Gironella 's choice of Veláquez 's Mariana as the basis for so many of his works is worth considering in more detail . |
| 16 | ‘ So we made the V16 MkII using my oval-section tube as the basis . |
| 17 | The Italian government , which takes over the EC presidency from Ireland next summer , will use the three-stage Delors strategy for monetary union as the basis for considering changes to the Treaty of Rome . |
| 18 | The figure of 165,000 could be taken as the basis for further negotiation , because no one could tell how regular recruiting would go . |
| 19 | Microsoft 's willingness to license DOS helped rivals to copy it and then use that technology as the basis for their own innovation . |
| 20 | Despite its attractions as the basis for scientific explanation , classical atomism had the drawback of having its roots in Epicurus ' materialistic atheism . |
| 21 | Following Gassendi and Boyle , he rejects the forms of the scholastics as explanations of why material things have the properties they do , and substitutes instead an adapted Epicurean atomism as the basis for explanation . |
| 22 | Thomas Sergeant , Joseph Butler , and Thomas Reid reasserted a continuous mental substance as the basis of personal identity , and said that the Lockean continuity of self-consciousness made no sense without it . |
| 23 | The Rough Wooing was to continue , not this time as a series of devastating raids , but by seizing and garrisoning Scottish fortresses as the basis for English control , and by Somerset 's own comprehensive victory over the Scots at Pinkie in September 1547 . |
| 24 | Anticipating approval by the IAAF , which did not materialise , the governing bodies of both the UK and US decided last year to accept the new criteria as the basis for ratifying national records . |
| 25 | Attempts to establish quantifiable and scientific criteria as the basis for identifying geographical areas requiring assistance and for developing policy stem from the centralist philosophy of government and the sectoralisation of technology and administration . |
| 26 | It is the fascination of these contrasted views of drama in education that I would like to share with the reader as the basis for this chapter . |
| 27 | Through Brian Way 's influence a new kind of college course was emerging that saw drama as the basis for the students ' own personal development . |
| 28 | Fourthly , detailed evaluation and monitoring procedures must exist which are used as the basis for managing change . |
| 29 | Celebrating and learning from success , establishing excellence as the basis for action . |
| 30 | Maslow 's model is obviously not empirically based but , even as the basis of a conceptual framework for managing staff , it has severe limitations : |