Sentence examples for basis straight from inspiring English sources

Despite taking in the money in national insurance contributions, the pensions are paid on a pay-as-you-go basis straight out of the Treasury.

The startup launched in 2014 as a way to ship medications on a regular basis straight to someone's door instead of making them go pick it up at the pharmacy every time.

The basal ration was composed of corn and grass silages (2 1 respectively, DM basis) and straight feeds.

Seedlings also are selected on the basis of straight, thick stems, and freedom from insect infestation or disease.

This is the basis for straight splits.

Most premiums or discounts will be amortized on a straight-line basis (US GAAP permits straight-line method use, but IFRS requires use of the effective-interest method), meaning the same amount is amortized each reporting period.

As the Case-Shiller house price index showed Tuesday morning, prices have been rising on a year-over-year basis for four straight months.

It is as if someone started to make beer, got bored and decided to bottle unfermented wort (the hot, sugary liquid that is the basis of beer) straight from the mash tun.

Working with a seasoned ensemble that included other Vietnam veterans, Mr. Bang produced a surprisingly serene work, in which delicate Asian-inflected melodies served as a basis for blues, straight-head swing and funk.

He never got any royalties because he worked on a straight salary basis, while-writing them.

Elsewhere, Halperin wonders whether gay culture is dying out, on the basis that – he claims – straight people bought up the houses of gay people after they died of Aids in the 1980s and 90s, and that the numbers of gay bars in major cities are on the decline from peaks in the 70s.