Example sentences of "basis for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is no basis for deducing a calculated attempt to embarrass the leadership . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The degrees offered by the department provide a good basis for entering a number of professions , such as teaching in universities , art schools ( especially for those with a combined practical and academic degree ) , colleges and schools , working in museums and galleries , in publishing and in the book trade in general , in auction houses , in arts administration at local or national level , and in the conservation and display of ancient monuments . |
| 4 | The course , which can be taken in a specialist or more general mode , seeks to give students a thorough grounding in Fine Craft Design , to give them a firm basis for thinking about their work and a useful introduction to business practice . |
| 5 | The work of the Dragon Project though , is beginning to show that there may be some basis for thinking that unusual behaviour of certain known energies could be taking place at certain sites ( New Scientist , 21 October , p 166 ) , and it is possible that our ancient ancestors could detect this ‘ Earth energy ’ . |
| 6 | This is a useful basis for thinking about how you could use a story in class . |
| 7 | During the 1960s most of the Western world enjoyed steady economic growth and it became increasingly evident that companies ' main accounting apparatus ( financial reports in the form of income statements and balance sheets and annual budgets ) provided an inadequate basis for thinking ahead . |
| 8 | I return to the question that we shall level continually at the Labour party : what is the basis for thinking that there is any answer to the country 's problems through increasing the burden of taxation ? |
| 9 | The Anglican Henry Dannett provided a further fall-back epistemological basis for vindicating antislavery perceptions of the moral order by arguing that even ‘ if scriptural decisions should appear to contradict our ideas of right and wrong we are still bound to follow those ideas because we can not be so certain that we rightly understand and justly limit those scriptural decisions as we are of our own ideas of right and wrong ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These differences in taste , which are equally evident in a wide range of media — for example , a preference for ‘ difficult ’ as opposed to popular music — provide the basis for unearthing a deep classificatory device which Bourdieu identifies as an example of that ‘ habitus ’ described in chapter 6 . |
| 13 | The computer must have some basis for assigning indexing terms ; if a pre-assigned list of terms is not supplied , the computer itself must assign terms on the basis of those present in the document being indexed . |
| 14 | This proposed an enlarged Article 19 which concerns ‘ specific measures to assist agricultural holdings in environmentally sensitive farming areas ’ and is an attempt to provide a clear basis for supporting whatever type of farming is necessary to conserve designated areas ‘ to protect the countryside , including traditional landscapes , and wildlife . ’ |
| 15 | This initiative is an excellent one , and if agreed by the Council of Ministers will provide the basis for supporting traditional agriculture without intensification in places such as the Somerset Levels . |
| 16 | For a time Malins regarded himself as a Liberal Unionist , but he made policy toward drink the only basis for supporting parliamentary candidates . |
| 17 | This led to the ability to span roofs with stone vaulting at an early date — a field in which England led the way — and , also , to provide a sound basis for supporting a massive central tower which , in later times , also carried a spire . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | What has proved to be a thorny problem , not just during the past four years but for many years before , is the basis for financing all the services provided by local authorities and the level of services that should be provided . |
| 20 | Instead , it was described solely as " the basis for elaborating a new constitution for the RSFSR and for the conclusion of a new Union treaty " [ see also below ] . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The ministry accepted that farm-gate prices were a misleading basis for calculating cost benefits , but the new methods they came up with did not fully adjust the calculations accordingly , especially in the case of cereals . |
| 23 | The approximation was ( and is ) used as a basis for calculating the date of the paschal moon and hence determining when Easter occurs . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Tests by the American Association of State Highway Officials in the early 1960s are the basis for calculating the damage to roads . |
| 26 | The European currency unit ( ECU ) is used as a basis for calculating a central rate for each member s currency . |
| 27 | ( d ) The basis for calculating cash flow on individual projects . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |