Sentence examples for basis but only from inspiring English sources

In it he showed that consumers' choices cannot be predicted on an individual basis, but only probabilistically.

Israel's prime minister, Ehud Barak, agreed to proceed on this basis, but only if the Palestinians would do the same.

Without the charge, Barclays' profit would still have been down on a year-to-year basis, but only slightly, at £1.3 billion.

Also, most people may not react well to being told that, according to the B.E.A., we're all about $1,800 richer on a per-capita basis — but only on paper.

The rest of the Union might well allow it access to the common market — and even then not on an unfettered basis — but only if Britain abided by E.U. rules.

Someone who takes out a £200,000 mortgage fixed at 3.27% for three years (one of the rates offered by the Saffron) with a 25-year term would initially have to pay £977 a month on a repayment basis, but only £545 a month on an interest-only basis.

The Court has taken cases on that jump-ahead-basis, but only rarely — such as when a strike threatened to shut down much of the country's steel production, in the 1952 Youngstown Sheet & Tube case (a different era, in terms of the power of both the steel industry and labor unions), and in 1974, when President Richard Nixon refused to hand over certain White House tapes.

(In Scotland, school year groups are formed on a March-February basis, and in Northern Ireland on a July-June basis. But only about 3 to 4% of UK-domiciled Oxbridge students are from Scotland or Northern Ireland, so the general picture is still valid).

The quantitative description of the forms and energies of the molecular orbitals is improved by the inclusion of 3d orbitals in the basis set, but only a small admixture is needed.

Based on monthly data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey of physicians and aggregated by US census regions, we find that the number of mental health drug prescriptions (those aimed at alleviating depression and anxiety) rises by about 10% when employment falls by 1% and when unemployment rises by 100 basis points, but only for patients in the Northeast region.

As yet, quality-of-life data and/or patient-reported outcome measures have been collected on a research basis only, but it is clear that they should become part of the standard outcome measures in the future.