The phrase "a kind of basis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that serves as a foundation or underlying principle for something else, often in a more informal or nuanced way.
Example: "The research provided a kind of basis for understanding the complex relationship between diet and health."
Alternatives: "a sort of foundation" or "a type of groundwork."
His assumption was that if a therapist shared his sexual orientation or ethnic group, there would be a kind of guaranteed basis for understanding or acceptance.
This alternative approach is a kind of natural basis for assessing the optimality of subjects' decisions dynamically.
When speaking to MTV, he explained his reasoning for performing in the show "It's not often that you're able to give somewhat of a visual or an emotional kind of basis of what your songs mean I felt like, yeah, it would be a physical challenge, yeah it would be a lot for me, but [I want to] at least try it, there are many times I'd seen the show and I'd only hoped that I would make it happen".
It's enormously stimulating to work on a kind of ad hoc basis.
The double-ended guillotine break (DEGB) of the horizontal coaxial gas duct accident is a kind of beyond design basis accident of HTR-PM, which will result in air ingress into the reactor core.
Brian Chase, director of the National Space Society, a space advocacy group, said the idea of individual tiles was chosen over a single shield or a few large ones "as something that could be maintained on a kind of a piecemeal basis," he said.
And how on earth do we build a society on that kind of basis?
Ms Rice said: "We will have to look at that on a kind of case-by-case basis in terms of humanitarian needs.
Well, I think it's a tendency to look at things in snapshots on a kind of day-to-day basis rather than looking at the total picture.
Ophelia in Hamlet says to her brother Laertes: "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance". But that's no kind of basis for a study.
