The phrase "a possible basis for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a foundation or rationale for an idea, argument, or theory.
Example: "The research findings provide a possible basis for further studies on climate change impacts."
Alternatives: "a potential foundation for" or "a likely framework for".
The department "continues to view domestic violence as a possible basis for asylum," a department spokesman, Matthew Chandler, said.
The first time in the book that Gordimer acknowledges gender as a possible basis for oppression (it didn't make the list in 1985) is 1997.
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said today that Israel had endorsed a report of a committee led by former Senator George J. Mitchell as a possible basis for stopping violence and resuming peace talks.
I believe monitored enrichment on Iranian soil in the name of what Obama called Iran's "right to peaceful nuclear power" remains a possible basis for an agreement that blocks weaponization.
1], the Ambassadors, as a result of their meeting, telegraphed, it is understood, that the Turkish reply to the collective Note of the Powers afforded a possible basis for resuming peace negotiations.
The breakthrough was greeted with excitement by scientists, who nonetheless cautioned that it remained a significant proof of principle and a possible basis for new treatments, rather than a guarantee of an Alzheimer's cure in the near future.
Among the three early works noted above, Kant's most focused treatment of these arguments for the existence of God can be found in The One Possible Basis for a Demonstration of the Existence of God.
Greater transparency for recognition of rights: this is the only possible basis for a deal between Washington and Tehran.
These fundamental observations have led to increasing interest in telomere length as the possible basis for a "biological clock" which integrates the cumulative lifetime burden of genetic factors and environmental stressors independently of chronological age[5].
The Village Telco has realized one possible basis for an infrastructure in the process of developing the mesh potato.
The only possible basis for comparison is that neither Barack Obama nor Sarah Palin is a white male.
