The phrase "a basic piece of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a fundamental or essential component of something, often in a context where you are discussing elements or parts of a larger concept or system.
Example: "Understanding the principles of mathematics is a basic piece of knowledge for anyone pursuing a career in engineering."
Alternatives: "an essential element of" or "a fundamental component of".
Page thinks the human body amounts to a basic piece of code: "Your program algorithms aren't that complicated," he says.
The disease is among the most easily preventable with a basic piece of equipment — a $10 mosquito net.
During that time, a rival can effectively be stopped from using a basic piece of technology, often without a legal reason that holds up in the end.
"I can teach anybody to build a basic piece of rustic furniture," she said, upending a couple of benches for inspection.
A turntable is a basic piece of equipment — a motor turns a platter on which the record sits, and a tone arm holds a needle and a cartridge.
As people continued shooting each other, Bryant realized a basic piece of information was absent from the increasingly contentious gun debate in America: an accurate accounting of the human toll of gun violence as it happened.
Founders also expressed surprise at the fact that Jordan has 24/7 electricity--a basic piece of knowledge they should all have, since Jordan constitutes a target or test market for most of them.
If that doesn't work, adding another base station or a more basic piece of equipment known as a signal repeater may do the trick, he said, adding that the popularity of Wi-Fi technology has driven the price of many base stations below that of some antennas.
The R-05 is a very basic piece of kit.
NIH should make the inventory numbers public, she says: "This is just a very fundamental, basic piece of information for the public to have".
He said he was determined that it should record stark monochrome images in the style of Ingmar Bergman by having each pixel -- the tiniest, most basic piece of a video image -- recorded as black, white or a few intervening shades of gray.
