The phrase "are basic to a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is fundamental or essential to a particular concept or system.
Example: "These principles are basic to a successful marketing strategy."
Alternatives: "are essential to a" or "are fundamental to a".
The standards are basic to a person's identity as a Jew.
Purifying plasmids from E. coli, visualizing DNA by electrophoresis through agarose or polyacrylamide gels, conducting Southern blot analyses, and producing labeled probes are the techniques that are basic to a molecular geneticist.
"From fiber optics to air conditioning, things that most people think are basic to a learning environment, we haven't always had that," said Joanne Waddell, president of Local 1521 of the American Federation of Teachers, which represents 5,000 district faculty members.
In much the way that democracy is prelude to human development, healthy children healthy in the total sense of the word are basic to a countrys development.
Thermodynamic principles are basic to an understanding of the complex fluxes of energy and information required to keep cells alive.
His concept of the Nash Equilibrium is basic to a great deal of economic theory.
With rapid-fire erudition, he soliloquizes on how "the outsider is basic to a lot of dramatic literature.
Not unlike adult furniture, consistency of color and pattern is basic to a room's design success.
Generally, he would give me a cassette with his song in its raw form, probably with that little keyboard or guitar — whatever was basic to a songwriter sketch.
"The desire to be materialistic is basic to being human," said Tim Kasser, a professor of psychology at Knox College and the author of a book called The High Price of Materialism.
They are basic relative to a theory under test.
