Sentence examples for basis would be from inspiring English sources

We don't know what the legal basis would be to stop them in the future".

Company promoters who issued a prospectus on such a basis would be liable to imprisonment.

The health secretary said any hospital that made decisions on a political basis would be wrong, as patient safety was the paramount concern.

Certainly the courts, on a case-by-case basis, would be better placed to consider this question rather than a generic parliamentarian decision.

Meanwhile, a reassessment of the regulation and licensing of pesticides, which is undertaken on a pan-European basis, would be undertaken.

The decision, on an airport-by-airport basis, would be made by the transportation secretary and the Transportation Department's inspector general.

The fees have been capped, a New York Life official said, and stock shares with the lowest cost basis would be transferred into the tax-sheltered pension plan.

Assuming the job on a full-time basis would be a significant detour from Dolan's trajectory as his father's successor at Cablevision.

The series, which would be produced on a limited basis, would be "in the network's voice but with the advertiser very clearly exposed," Ms. Grinthal said.

(One basis point is one one-hundredth of a percent, so 100 basis points would be 1 percent, or $50,000 on a $5 million policy).

On that basis, it would be an impossible task.