The phrase "are so basic to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is fundamental or essential to a particular context or situation.
Example: "These principles are so basic to our understanding of the subject that they cannot be overlooked."
Alternatives: "are fundamental to" or "are essential to".
But this sort of questioning, which is so basic to scientific discourse, never extended to the relationship between carbon dioxide and rising temperatures.
Taking elements from the earth and refining them into metals is so basic to civilization that we refer to eras in human history as the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.
This character is so basic to artiodactyls that it has not developed very much within the known history of the order, having already been present in long extinct members.
Moreover, aesthetic empathy -- that is, visceral feeling for the shapes and actions of forms in all the arts -- is so basic to the postmodern Western mind that no work should be entirely foreign to it.
Colors have warmed and a degree of direct observation has softened the intense artifice, grounded in an idiosyncratic fusion of Pop Art and Minimalism, that is so basic to the wide-ranging Artschwager brand.
Because evolution is so basic to all study of biology – and ecology as well – its study should begin with the first introduction of biology to very young students.
Indeed, storage is so basic to most commodities that the oldest cities in the world, such as Ur in Mesopotamia, had a warehouse and temple in their center to store grain.
But what struck me in Broken River was that in a winter where we are going to be focusing on the pinnacle of our sports in terms of athletes and events, it's good to start on a mountain where things are so basic, just to remind you what makes skiing and snowboarding so much fun.
Because Republicans' and Democrats' differences on spending and taxes are so basic as to define their respective parties, they have "very different strategies for the economy and investment by the federal government and how one controls the cost of health care," Mr. Podesta added.
