The phrase "a basis for trying" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the foundation or justification for attempting something, often in a legal or evaluative context.
Example: "The evidence presented in court provided a basis for trying the defendant on multiple charges."
Alternatives: "a foundation for attempting" or "a reason for pursuing".
Already, human rights groups are using rulings in the Pinochet case as a legal basis for trying Hissene Habre, the former president of the central African nation Chad, in Senegal on torture charges.
And all this has been amplified into public outrage by the foolish decision to pay out bumper bonuses again.The fury at "business as usual" in the Temples of Mammon is understandable, but it is a rotten basis for trying to regulate finance.
Providing continuity of care for a group of patients and establishing relationships with them contributed to the students feeling part of the team and created a firm basis for trying out new tasks or skills.
But apprehension about future uncertainty affords no basis for trying to sustain a crumbling status quo.
There's no intellectual basis for trying to dismiss something as being merely fun.
Hunter said he "instinctively" sees a problem with using the military justice code -- "a body of law meant to extend privileges to the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States" -- as the basis for trying suspects in the war on terrorism.
Nevertheless, throughout this period of political division, the Piast lands retained their common church structure, language, and economy, all of which provided a basis for various princes to try to reunify the Polish kingdom.
If Judge Clay orders a new trial based on these developments, there would no longer be a basis for prosecutors to re-try Stanley.
One could almost say that his father, who has since been killed in another shootout, brought him to Guantánamo, too — there are indications that Omar Khadr was being held, first at Bagram and then there, at least in part for what he might know about his family's connections — but since when is that a basis for incarcerating children, let alone trying them as war criminals?
Soon he was selling gear out of the basement on a consignment basis for retailers trying to unload last season's merchandise.
