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The phrase "a more basic issue" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a fundamental or underlying problem that needs to be addressed before tackling more complex issues.
Example: "Before we can resolve the conflict, we need to address a more basic issue that has been overlooked."
Alternatives: "a more fundamental problem" or "a more essential concern".
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Before I describe some of this research, a more basic issue: Why should an op-ed columnist write about scholarship published in scientific journals?
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There is an even more basic issue.
Whatever the answer, the more basic issue is whether it should be legal to place a bet on a sporting event.
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But as charter schools move to the suburbs, they force the movement to confront more basic issues: are they a remedy for failing schools, or simply another choice in a wider boutique of schools?
But, after the election, we have been challenged to meet a new need that revolves around even more basic issues of emotional sustainability," Theo Oshiro, the group's deputy director, told me.
Mr. Ban identified even more basic issues to address before an African-led force would be ready to deploy.
But administrators said part of the education will focus on far more basic issues, including the idea that children from a low-income urban setting have as much right to a college education — including one from the top universities — as anybody else.
A growing list of other concerns, like the crisis in the euro zone and the threat of conflict in Iran, could overshadow more basic issues, like the need to put food on the table.
Amid a growing list of other concerns, like the crisis in the euro zone and the threat of conflict in Iran, will more basic issues, like the need to keep food on the table, get overlooked?
And of course, we are busy, we have lives, we have anxieties and we are kept immersed in the flurry of interpersonal comparisons so we don't have to look at some of the more basic issues and events.
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