Example sentences of "which be [verb] the basis " in BNC.

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1 In 1927 the Bledisloe Commission submitted a report which was to form the basis of the 1930 Land Drainage Act , the ground rules of which have dominated land drainage to the present day .
2 The Central Committee then circulated to the Serbian Party a document which was to form the basis of compulsory discussions in all party organizations , with the accompanying demand that there should be a ‘ differentiation ’ .
3 He was already determined to be a poet — between 1787 and 1789 he had composed An Evening Walk — and part of the aim of his 1790 long vacation walking-tour was to gather the material which was to form the basis of Descriptive Sketches .
4 Labour may not have been able to maintain control of the municipal sphere for a prolonged period , but it had built a strong tradition of formal political activity which was to form the basis of hegemonic power in the interwar years .
5 These included the great British trading companies in West Africa , in which are to be found the origins of Unilever , the North American fruit companies in Central America , whose activities gave rise to the expression ‘ banana republic ’ , and the East India Company which was to provide the basis for British colonial administration in India .
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