Example sentences of "[verb] the very basis " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attlee attacked the very basis of the perception that the Mediterranean was crucial to Britain in time of war , arguing that with the development of air power the resources needed to protect sea routes from Gibraltar to Suez would be impossible to find . |
| 2 | This differential account of history requires us to rethink a whole series of common notions such as unevenness of development , of survivals , backwardness , even , Althusser claims , the contemporary economic practice of under-development' — notions that provide the very basis of Western ethnocentrism . |
| 3 | He pointed out that when armaments production and war reaches a certain point , when larger and larger quantities of material goods and labour-power are sucked into this process , it will begin to destroy the very basis of production itself . |
| 4 | Blanket price controls would destroy the very basis of economic reform , but reliance on market mechanisms alone would unleash a price explosion . |
| 5 | By immersing students within the community and employing professionals from other disciplines to present insights which are different from , though complementary to , those of teacher trainers , the Centre encourages students to question the very basis on which they plan their teaching programme . |
| 6 | to question the very basis of the welfare state medicine , which is based on non-holistic , toxic intervention , is still seen as a traitor if you criticise the medical regime . |
| 7 | In age-set societies , the changes in status involved in getting older are institutionalised to such a degree that they often constitute the very basis of political organisation . |
| 8 | The government could not , it decided , be obliged to alter the very basis of its system of documentation . |
| 9 | That is , I shall argue that the power/knowledge assumptions which form the very basis of Bourdieu 's conceptual framework place him much closer to Foucault and the postmodernist end of the theoretical spectrum . |
| 10 | As Nawal El Saadawi points out so clearly in her report from Cairo , it was in fact George Bush 's insistence on the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait which destroyed the very basis for negotiations . |