The phrase "a basic means" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a fundamental method or way of achieving something.
Example: "Using a basic means of communication, such as email, can help ensure that everyone is informed."
Alternatives: "a fundamental method" or "a simple way".
These prosaic objects seem to provide only a basic means to achieve a limited end.
This was not the only shameful story submerged this week: a report by Shelter revealed over 300,000 people are now homeless, meaning every one in 200 of us nationally – 1 in 59 within London – cannot access a basic means of survival.
They are best pals--routinely hassled by the cops, sometimes with needless and extreme humiliation and savagery--and a lot of what they do goes well beyond prankishness into the outright criminal activities that are doubtlessly a basic means of support.
However, it has been proposed that intermittent use of high concentration of acaricides to kill ticks with resistant alleles may provide a basic means of delaying resistance [ 27].
Currently, there are various surgical approaches for liver transplantation and liver resection, and although the operative time has been shortened and the surgical approach improved [ 19– 21], the Pringle maneuver is still a basic means to reduce intraoperative hemorrhage, and it may induce hepatic I/R injury.
There was a gradual decrease of CD4+ cells (and a corresponding increase of CD8+ cells), from a basic mean value of 58.4% (s.e. 5.2) to 37.7% (s.e. 7.2) on day 14 (P=0.036).
As a kind of data disaster recovery data security technology, through a complete copy of the data in real time to the disaster recovery center, in order to keep a copy of the basic means of providing a last line of defense for the security of the data.
"For me, a basic income means simplifying the social security system," he said.
The nearly equal distribution of energy expenditures confirms Smil's assumption that energy is the universal currency [30] for people's welfare and can be seen as an indicator of the basic needs of the households, whereby "basic" means something different in different countries for Germany basic needs means an energy consumption which offers social participation.
