The phrase "a basic issue that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a fundamental problem or concern that needs to be addressed or discussed.
Example: "There is a basic issue that we need to resolve before moving forward with the project."
Alternatives: "a fundamental problem that" or "a primary concern that".
So attacking Florio is probably tactically the right thing to do, because it's taking the basic issue that's there and highlighting it".
However, one basic issue that has been barely discussed is whether there is, in fact, solid evidence that young people tend to overestimate peer drinking and drug use.
Despite their novelty, complexity, and brain knowledge expansion, none of these challenging initiatives addresses the basic issue that a fairly complete neuroanatomical model of the whole human brain, which is required as the reference in brain studies and clinical applications, does not exist.
One basic issue that the commission might consider, though it was conspicuously not mentioned by Mr. Giuliani yesterday, is the one that got him into trouble in 1999: mayoral succession.
Much of what is occurring in Congress may be incomprehensible, but the basic issue — that the United States needs to increase the limit on its credit card or not be able to pay its bills — is understood.
"You can have a debate about the ideology and you can dissect the economic arguments, but it cuts down to the basic issue that people have to look and say he is on our side, he is having a go for us, he is giving us a better society, a better vision, a better way of life than we have currently got".
Before describing some of those issues, it is useful to foreground the basic issue that expertise, functionality and judgement are central to regulatory toxicology, including the use of in silico models.
But it is an important book nonetheless, a valuable primer on the basic issues that define energy today.
