Example sentences of "basis for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agreement on troop withdrawal was to be regarded as the basis for a future treaty on the issue . |
| 2 | On the two biggest international issues confronting the UK — the resurgence of German power and the ecological threat — there is equally little that any party is prepared to do : the former is the basis for a future stability of the EC , the latter has already reached such ominous proportions that , as is evident in the evasions preceding the Rio summit , governments the world over are hiding their heads in the sand . |
| 3 | Although they do constitute a basis for a future development policy it is only realistic to recognise that they are , in some respects at least , contradictory to the conceptual framework of present policies and planning approaches . |
| 4 | This type of community work with refugees is in many ways similar to the organization of the controlled zones and is regarded as the basis for a future development model after the triumph of the FDR-FMLN . |
| 5 | On Aug. 26 the UN Security Council approved Resolution 774 , which enshrined the UN proposals and the map presented by Boutros-Ghali as the basis for a future solution to the Cyprus problem . |
| 6 | But what exactly was the new science of biology that Huxley and others wanted to establish as the basis for a modern education ? |
| 7 | It has also been made clear that where an unmet need is recorded which the department has a legal duty to provide , it could be used as the basis for a legal challenge , although it should still be recorded . |
| 8 | Individually the trusts were small , usually maintaining only about 20 miles of road , but as they were formed and linked , the basis for a coherent road network was being established . |
| 9 | It is far safer to regard the P/E ratio as an indicator of market sentiment about the future prospects of a company rather than a basis for a systematic forecasting technique of future earnings . |
| 10 | These studies formed the basis for a systematic search for the gene involved in XLA . |
| 11 | There is no defensible basis for a global answer to this question . |
| 12 | A model like this can not be a sufficient basis for a convincing explanation of a recurrent phenomenon like linguistic change because both divergence and convergence can be present in language states at any time , or , perhaps , at all times . |
| 13 | The French system gives the observer more confidence than the UK system does that a more thorough assessment has been made by the French of comparative natural handicaps which is then used as the basis for a comprehensive system of support . |
| 14 | The precise answer to this question requires a mathematical statement of the model , which we leave until later in this chapter , but the general answer , which both has policy implications and can serve as the basis for a subtle test of the model , is this : under rational expectations the proportions of any unexpectedly high price which are attributed to the aggregate and relative demand shocks respectively should be based on the true process determining that unexpectedly high price ; that is , on the true likelihood of any unexpectedly high price being due to a random aggregate demand increase or to a favourable relative demand shock . |
| 15 | As on other occasions , Imperial sentiment was a weak basis for a key part of British policy . |
| 16 | The project will prepare the conceptual and methodological basis for a longer-term enquiry into such issues and test it in one or more pilot studies . |
| 17 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 18 | Much play is given in the to the rather romantic story of Hocazade 's extreme poverty in his youth , a story which lays the basis for a rags-to-riches saga ( in respect both of material wealth and of intellectual achievement ) and which also has overtones of the story of Joseph . |
| 19 | This was not yet a mass movement , but the basis for a large-scale mobilization of anti-war opinion was at last being laid . |
| 20 | It was also clear that the creation of a network of village centres for the provision of classes and courses was a necessary but insufficient basis for a well-founded adult education movement . |
| 21 | The survey design will take account of work being conducted in the United States as the basis for a comparative evaluation of British and American experiences . |
| 22 | Coordinating social work amongst Nonconformist churches , stopping overlapping , as in Paton 's 1891 circular , and providing a national forum for debate and possible agreement remained goals , but the real inspiration was the desire to build an extra-denominational basis for a grand scheme which would unite English Nonconformity into one body . |
| 23 | For a separate currency area like the UK , a weak balance of payments may amount to the basis for a depreciating currency . |
| 24 | The five facets identified above have been used as the basis for a standard citation order , that is PMEST . |
| 25 | Hardly a good basis for a successful partnership . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The merger provides the potential for developing more business than we would have achieved separately and I am confident that we have the basis for a successful future . |
| 27 | A tiny fraction of this amount could be the basis for a successful third-world weapons programme . |
| 28 | While he continued to raise the spectre of a return to German hegemony , his new policy ( voiced for the first time at Bordeaux in September 1949 ) revolved around a Franco-German entente , which he saw as the basis for a European confederation . |
| 29 | Scholars , theologians and a host of other people can spend their whole lives delving into the chaos of unlimited literature , and yet never produce anything which could be an acceptable basis for a viable religion . |
| 30 | The second in 1981 , known as the Joubert Study ( after the official conducting it ) , devised a structure which divided the DOE into 120 cost centres as a basis for a financial management system ( Collins , 1987 , p. 15 ; Fry , 1984 , p. 332 ) . |