The phrase "a simple basis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a fundamental or straightforward foundation for an idea, concept, or argument.
Example: "To understand the theory, we need to establish a simple basis for our discussion."
Alternatives: "a basic foundation" or "a straightforward premise".
Every noble landlord knew the old saying "Whoever has a Moor has gold," and aristocratic fortunes were built on a simple basis: "The more Moors, the more profit".
If the dictionary represents a simple basis, the decomposition will be unique.
Gene networks provide a simple basis for organizing thousands of cellular components and their associations with each other, as well as for generating testable hypotheses about the components and the system as a whole.
For instance, one could use a simple basis such as power series i.e. a Taylor expansion.
These relationships provide a simple basis for risk assessment, and support the suggestion that mesotheliomas may constitute a high proportion of cancer deaths resulting from early exposure to asbestos.
But on a simpler basis, we can look at the human mind in everyday operation.
The original proposal had a fairly simple basis: Dividends would be tax exempt to the extent they came from profits on which the company had actually paid taxes.
On his view categories in metaphysics turn out to be analogous to axioms in mathematical theories; in each case, there may be more than one way to systematize our knowledge from a relatively simple basis.
First, our model has a very simple basis (context-mediated PDs), yet it outperforms other models that are based on complex image-based feature extraction and computing [23].
The proposed HMM which uses Bayesian methods to estimate the model parameters provides a conceptually simple basis for the surveillance of small area disease notification data.
Darren Clarke, surely, should look favourably upon a competitor placed into a dilemma on the simple basis he was successful.
