The phrase "as a basic starting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a fundamental point or initial step in a discussion or process.
Example: "As a basic starting point, we should consider the main objectives of the project before diving into the details."
Alternatives: "as a fundamental beginning" or "as an initial step".
"As a basic starting point if you are going to review a significant business, which Channel 4 is, I don't think it is reasonable to leave the board of directors and executives knowing you are under scrutiny.
Getting there will also require, as a basic starting point, both criminal justice reform and direct job creation in neighborhoods that have historically been left behind (even when the rest of the country is at full employment).
The development of information theory as a basic starting point for communications engineering, in the years just after World War II, was also influential in shaping the evolution of systems engineering.
But there is a definite need to do things like touch-type on screens, just as a basic starting point.
As a basic starting point, the randomised study, Individual screening-based biopsychosocial services for patients with non-specific low back pain, was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Region of Southern Denmark (nr. VF-20060062).
What if his dreams are all sex dreams that rely on a certain level of poverty as his basic starting point for arousal?
However, the results for Year 3-secondary progressive showed an inverse relation to hard outcomes, enfeebling relapses in this time period as they fail, as do total relapses, to attain the basic starting premise for postulating a causal relationship.
How does he convince the whole of Tesco?" Others in the food industry make the same point, with one senior executive describing Tesco's buyers to me as "hardnosed" and "aggressive" people whose basic starting point is that all suppliers "are liars".
It is difficult starting from scratch, so why not take another philosopher's ideas as a basic framework to get started?
This practice led to two views in Pu Town: one is "Now every business owns its debts"; the other is "Now you can do business through being in debt as long as you have basic start-up capital".
Starting as a basic L-shaped tower built from tooled ashlar dressed rubble, the castle was extended in a southerly direction by the addition of a circular tower during the first alterations in the late 16th century.
