The phrase "a common basis in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing shared foundations or principles in a particular context, such as in research, collaboration, or understanding.
Example: "The two teams found a common basis in their approach to problem-solving, which facilitated better communication."
Alternatives: "a shared foundation in" or "a mutual ground in".
Jazz and Irish trad share a common basis in triplets, but if one was expecting intriguing moirés, the result was an atrocity.
In contrast, however, other states, such as India, the Soviet Union, and Switzerland, came into existence without a common basis in ethnicity, culture, or language.
The paper is the result of a collaborative process among several open innovation scholars — having a common basis in the recurrent Professional Development Workshop (PDW) on "Researching Open Innovation" at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.
The contemporary political systems that combine constitutionalism and democracy share a common basis in the primacy they accord to the will of the majority of the people as expressed in free elections.
I show that most of those ap proaches have a common basis in the theory of unconstrained membranes.
The answer is Yes if and only if there exists a common basis in these two matroids.
Universality of the aging process and the conservation of aging pathways and genetic and dietary interventions that affect lifespan point to a common basis for aging in diverse organisms.
Lim, J; Helariutta, Y; Specht, CD; Jung, J; Sims, L; Bruce, WB; Diehn, S; Benfey, PN, Molecular analysis of the SCARECROW gene in maize reveals a common basis for radial patterning in diverse meristems., The Plant Cell, vol. 12 no.
The recent introduction of a common basis for structural design in Europe has led to a comprehensive set of standards covering the most used building materials.
Furthermore, this study suggested that deficit schizophrenia is associated with frontal and parietal lobe impairment, and that temporal lobe dysfunction may be a common basis for cognitive impairment in schizophrenia as a whole.
These two positions grow from a common basis, namely, the exponential growth in media coverage of the DIA collection in the last year.
