The phrase "a basic driving force" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a fundamental motivation or influence behind an action or phenomenon.
Example: "Education is often seen as a basic driving force for social change and economic development."
Alternatives: "a fundamental motivator" or "a primary catalyst".
As Harvard Asia specialists Roy Hofheinz and Kent Calder have written, "For more than a century, nationalist sentiments...have been a basic driving force underlying East Asian economic growth".
A basic driving force which united oncologists was a desire to please patients and relatives.
A transition from passive to active behaviour was a basic driving force, constituting a change from being prepared to taking action.
The innovative capacity of a country is the basic driving force behind its economic performance; it provides a measure of the institutional structures and support systems that sustain innovative activity.
Although the mentality of the Chinese people today is quite complex and different, it always tends to be reasonable and rational in general, which is the basic driving force for Chinese society to keep improving and also the social basis for China to make achievements.
With all the advancements in this computer driven, technologically advanced world of ours, the basic driving force for every single human and every single animal is the same.
When students have a clear understanding of the story of biology and its basic driving forces and mechanisms, they may use their knowledge to write true stories that illuminate the workings of the world around them.
Frontier molecular further suggest that the electron density changes between the ground and excited states serve as basic driving forces for proton transfer.
To regain a social life was a driving force and an important motivating aspect for treatment.
But it is possible to cut through a lot of the confusion surrounding the appeal of Trumpism if one recognizes that differences in fundamental worldview, anchored in basic personality differences, are a driving force in contemporary politics.
