Example sentences of "basis for [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the four remaining parts of the lower dome have been built high enough to form a complete circle within the walls of the square , this circle provides the basis for supporting the actual dome . |
| 2 | If the staffing ratio of seven pupils to each teacher , recommended in circular 4/73 ( DES 1973 ) , is accepted as a basis for calculating the necessary teaching force for this group , then 1,225 teachers would be required . |
| 3 | I am confident that Government policies provide , and will continue to provide , an appropriate basis for meeting the high expectations that society has for the future . |
| 4 | A Soviet statement in March 1958 had called for the establishment of collective security in both Europe and Asia as a basis for destroying the Western-inspired pacts , NATO and SEATO . |
| 5 | It is not yet known whether research would confirm these hypotheses of the character of certain distinct twentieth-century paranational cultural formations , though they provide an initial basis for considering the contradictory character of the history of the avant-garde movements : that they represent sharp and even violent breaks with received and traditional practices ( a dissidence or revolt rather than a literal avant garde ) ; and yet that they become ( in ways separable from the important facts of their dilution and commercial exploitation ) the dominant culture of a succeeding metropolitan and paranational period . |
| 6 | The information and recommendations contained in the report provide an excellent basis for building the flexible and responsive approach in relation to Europe which will be required over the next few years . |
| 7 | Delegates from Belgium , West Germany , France , the Netherlands , Luxemburg and Italy , met at Messina , in 1955 , and that meeting produced the basis for forming the European Economic Council . |
| 8 | There is no legislative basis for refunding the excess duty paid on the VAT element of the agreement in these circumstances . |
| 9 | Handy ( 1989 ) has developed a model which might serve as the basis for determining the future structure of schools . |
| 10 | There are several generically different strategies which can be used as a basis for determining the future direction of a business . |
| 11 | The census showed a continuing population drift to the west and south of the country , which , as the census was used as the basis for determining the relative representation of individual states within the House of Representatives , had important political implications . |
| 12 | The application of technology to managerial systems provides the basis for creating the many possible NFP structures . |
| 13 | He plans a strong youth policy as the basis for taking the re-born club into the Welsh pyramid soccer system . |
| 14 | It also provides a basis for co-ordinating the individual functional budgets ; these functional budgets will normally include the sales , production , administration , distribution and cash budgets . |
| 15 | What is needed is some basis for estimating the functional from a finite number of experimental results . |
| 16 | A COSLA senior official said yesterday : ‘ We are still not convinced that the report is anywhere near a reasonable basis for changing the local government structure . ’ |
| 17 | It would not be reasonably foreseen that these accounts would still be relied upon by any banker acting in the ordinary course of business as a basis for assessing the then creditworthiness of Berg after the passage of more than about 15 months from the end of the period covered by the accounts . |
| 18 | The EPA and FDA , together with the Department of Agriculture , promised that they would use both reports " as a basis for formulating the legislative and regulatory policies needed to put the Administration 's principles [ for cutting pesticide use ] into effect " . |
| 19 | When radiocarbon dates are available from Loch Lang and Bennett and Fossitt 's investigations at other Outer Hebridean sites are completed , we will have a firmer factual basis for interpreting the vegetational history and the underlying factors that have influenced the temporal and spatial patterns of the past flora and vegetation in the Outer Hebrides . |
| 20 | Not only is this format the simplest and earliest means of storing numeric data in the computer , it is also used for store addresses and forms the basis for encoding the individual subportions of more complicated arithmetic data-types , such as the fraction and exponent of the floating-point format described in 2.2 . |
| 21 | This is then used as a basis for understanding the various forms of the capitalist state , and the transitions from one to another . |
| 22 | Styled is the concept we shall use in exploring the nature of stylistic value , as a basis for understanding the detailed workings of stylistic effect ( see Ch 4 ) . |
| 23 | This latter one puts right a mistake in the description of the basis for distributing the distributable amount for ninety three four which was approved by the house on the eighth of February nineteen ninety three . |