Example sentences of "basis for [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the basis for drawing the graph depends on many uncertainties and is very fragile , and while it shows the potential contribution of die studies and studies of output to our understanding of ancient economies , it is far from certain that it is historically accurate . |
| 2 | Tests by the American Association of State Highway Officials in the early 1960s are the basis for calculating the damage to roads . |
| 3 | In addition , the Medway Letter Line is the basis for calculating the cost benefit of all schemes carried out on rivers by water authorities and other organizations . |
| 4 | Coordination or control of management information systems , inter alia , to provide the basis for calculating the cost of resources , and establishing effective monitoring and control mechanisms throughout . |
| 5 | The approximation was ( and is ) used as a basis for calculating the date of the paschal moon and hence determining when Easter occurs . |
| 6 | Secondly , if knowledgeable doctors in good faith adopt differing practices , there is a pragmatic basis for regarding the issue as unresolved . |
| 7 | My suggestion is that impartiality of one type or another and perhaps other qualities of decision-makers might be the basis for regarding the law as a locus of moral authority . |
| 8 | These multi-word islands were then used , much as the seed words in HWIM , as the basis for expanding the interpretation according to top-down predictions . |
| 9 | Sonar made interesting contacts but could not identify them directly , while passive underwater photography ( photographing whatever passes a given spot ) had the potential to reveal essential detail but could not be expected to make contact without a much sounder basis for deploying the cameras . |
| 10 | The legislation is now likely to prove the basis for implementing the referendum it failed to forestall . |
| 11 | In the United Sterling case the basis for dismissing the motion was that there was no evidence that the defendant was given any special information which he ought to have regarded as a separate part of his stock of knowledge which an honest employee would have recognised as property of the employer . |
| 12 | G. D. H. Cole 's The People 's Front , the Club choice for July 1937 , looked to local readers groups as the main basis for developing the agitation . |
| 13 | This will give us a basis for quantifying the size of the market over the next decade . |
| 14 | For example , a study of the debasement trends of sixth-to seventh-century AD European gold coinage provided a basis for dating the Sutton Hoo ship burial . |
| 15 | On only one point is there evidence which would seem to give some basis for dating the competition , namely a marginal note in Mecdi 's article on Hocazade which states that the latter was kadi of Edirne the position to which he went alter holding the professorship of the Zeyrek medrese — in 871/1466–7 , " a few documents written by him " having been seen . |
| 16 | Certainly there will be no ground-plan in reality to which the writer can refer to discover a basis for organising the text . |
| 17 | During the second phase , the analysts had also investigated systems that were then available for filing system support , using statements given in the FAOR report as a basis for defining the type and level of system required , eg : |
| 18 | The objectives represent the basis for defining the regions eligible for aid and it is the structurally backward , or Objective 1 regions , which receive the major share of the Structural Funds ( 77 per cent ) . |
| 19 | Any one , or a combination of these , may be chosen as the basis for choosing the work-places from which a sample can be selected . |
| 20 | Ranking project proposals in terms of fit with company objectives , then creating a ranking list from the best of these on agreed financial criteria provides the basis for choosing the projects to which available R&D resources will be allocated . |
| 21 | Ranking project proposals in terms of fit with company objectives , then creating a ranking list from the best of these on agreed financial criteria provides the basis for choosing the projects to which available R&D resources will be allocated . |
| 22 | Nothing provides a better demonstration of this than the continued usage of the administrative-judicial dichotomy as a basis for determining the applicability of natural justice . |
| 23 | Thus , what is outlined here represents both the existing law and the basis for determining the law in as yet untested or unfamiliar circumstances . |
| 24 | Stage I and Stage II averages are printed separately as it is the Stage II average only which forms the basis for determining the class of honours . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The research is aimed at drawing on the history of Soviet economic relations with the LDCs as a basis for monitoring the changes brought about first by ‘ perestroika ’ and then by the disintegration of the USSR ; it will then analyse the effect on the developing countries concerned and evaluate the profit and loss account of their economic relations with the Soviet Union ; it will also look at the relevance of these relations to the Soviet economy and that of the constituent republics ; and finally it will try to look at the future prospects of the relationship between the less developed countries and the individual republics of the former Soviet Union . |
| 27 | It is therefore necessary for the tests to include information regarding the size and nature of the standardisation sample so that the teacher or therapist may judge whether or not it is reasonable to use the distribution of sample scores as a basis for evaluating the performance of particular individuals . |
| 28 | It is hoped that the reader , after assessing these areas , will have a basis for evaluating the information system in his/her own institution . |
| 29 | The hesitation which the average individual has in going to Court and giving evidence should not be under-estimated and if there is , therefore , an inclination to avoid that the Tender provides the agent with a basis for persuading the client to accept . |
| 30 | The rest of this chapter will be concerned with developing one particular model , known as the income — expenditure model , which has frequently been used as a basis for explaining the operation of fiscal policy . |