Example sentences of "a basis for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly many of the pupil self-assessment schemes seen during the survey would prove very useful as a basis for gathering information for departmental profiles , and could therefore be extremely helpful in the development of records of personal achievement , which are due to be introduced in all schools in the early 1990s . |
| 2 | Leaving aside the ( many important and detailed ) criticisms which people have made of these procedures , it is clear that , in principle , developing a basis for appraising investment projects is of considerable importance . |
| 3 | Research methods will include visitor and other public attitude surveys , allowing the development of models of individual choice to be used as a basis for appraising future endangered habitats . |
| 4 | We would like you to use your expectations and the resultant negotiations as a basis for stating some of the objectives you hope to use for direction in your marriage . |
| 5 | Certainly there will be no ground-plan in reality to which the writer can refer to discover a basis for organising the text . |
| 6 | But this is to introduce a utilitarian calculus , which some may reject as a basis for choosing how to allocate resources . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The approximation was ( and is ) used as a basis for calculating the date of the paschal moon and hence determining when Easter occurs . |
| 9 | The European currency unit ( ECU ) is used as a basis for calculating a central rate for each member s currency . |
| 10 | The former assessed need to spend by an authority as a basis for calculating entitlement to block grant ; the latter was a system of expenditure controls based around the progressive removal of grant above the ‘ target ’ expenditure level set for each authority . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Some indication of the relative importance of the parallel as opposed to traditional markets is the widespread use of LIBOR , rather than treasury bill rate , by financial institutions as a basis for calculating their lending and deposit rates . |
| 13 | MLU was used by Brown as a basis for dividing early language development into a series of stages . |
| 14 | Such studies were hardly a basis for advocating that tax cuts would lead to an upsurge in work effort ! |
| 15 | This should provide a basis for suggesting how best to manage the transfer of knowledge and personnel from research to commercial exploitation while ensuring the health of scientific research is maintained and promoted . |
| 16 | That way he had a basis for haggling . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But they did not stop at the analysis of the system of meanings , they used this analysis as a basis for recovering ‘ hidden ’ meanings — for interpreting what they were studying . |
| 19 | The Health Department has now asked for a project proposal to be prepared as a basis for providing assistance to introduce the proposed changes during the year ahead . |
| 20 | To facilitate coordination of plans and resources by : ( a ) allocating the financial resources between departments ; ( b ) assisting in the implementation of capital schemes ; ( c ) providing a basis for forecasting capital cash flows and financial requirements ; ( d ) providing a basis for forecasting revenue implications ; ( e ) providing a basis for budgetary control of outturn against forecast ; ( f ) to satisfy government control requirements . |
| 21 | To facilitate coordination of plans and resources by : ( a ) allocating the financial resources between departments ; ( b ) assisting in the implementation of capital schemes ; ( c ) providing a basis for forecasting capital cash flows and financial requirements ; ( d ) providing a basis for forecasting revenue implications ; ( e ) providing a basis for budgetary control of outturn against forecast ; ( f ) to satisfy government control requirements . |
| 22 | This will give us a basis for quantifying the size of the market over the next decade . |
| 23 | As such , the continued separate attitudes of Nottinghamshire miners towards the working practices implemented by the NCB ( see Krieger , 1983 ) point to the fact that the Dukeries culture has lasted long after the events and institutions that created it , and provide a basis for appreciating why Nottinghamshire was different in 1984–5 . |
| 24 | In a number of situations the costs of the products will be a basis for setting prices , e.g. where the market price does not predominate over the pricing decision , as in the case of a monopoly or an oligopoly . |
| 25 | As a guide clearing banks seem to use 1–3 month LIBOR + ¼ per cent as a basis for setting their base rate . |
| 26 | If it can be accepted , as empiricists do , that the process of empirical verification involves a separate and distinct process of consciousness than that of generating the ideal categories in the first place , then there is a basis for distinguishing between ideology and another form of knowledge , ‘ science ’ . |
| 27 | Undertake a comprehensive survey of members ' professional activities and interests as a basis for involving a larger proportion of members in Institute affairs.PS |
| 28 | Linell , however , provides a basis for pursuing both questions by indicating ‘ the extent to which linguistics , like most other sciences , is still dependent on important events of the past , both technological inventions … and practical political goals and social concerns that have motivated the practice of linguistic science since antiquity ’ ( ibid. p. 1 ) . |
| 29 | Outside help was essential , but war-torn British industry was stretched to breaking capacity and the survival of a handful of mice was too thin a basis for disrupting existing essential activities to pursue what may well have appeared to be an academic will-o'-the-wisp . |
| 30 | These illustrations should not be used as a basis for comparing similar policies issues by other life assurance companies or friendly societies . |