"explain the basis" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to ask someone to provide an explanation for the reasons behind a certain action or belief. For example, "Can you explain the basis of your decision to resign from your job?".
We will continue our dialogue and efforts to explain the basis for any decision to deploy national missile defense".
For the time being, concern about machine intuition is moot: it doesn't really matter that AlphaGo cannot explain the basis for its intuitive moves in go.
The Obama administration has tried to explain the basis for its actions under international law just as it has under domestic law.
He offered no proof, and when asked outside his Florida home on Friday to explain the basis for his assertions, he said: "No, no, no, no, no.
Hoping to be the vanguard of a wider Shetland autonomy, Mr Hill posed a query: could the UK government explain the basis for its perceived authority in Shetland?
This is why the Obama administration has gone to unusual lengths, consistent with the need to protect intelligence, to explain the basis for and limits on its actions.
Congress has explained that the scope this provision requires "independent counsels.... to provide a summary of the key steps taken in the investigatory and prosecutorial stages of their work and to explain the basis for their decisions".
Lieutenant Adams said he would ask the department to explain the basis for the investigations, which were disclosed in very general terms during the testimony Thursday by Chief King, who directs criminal investigations into police officers.
Together with its final judgment, the district court issued a remarkable six-page memorandum that purports to explain the basis for its entry of the sweeping relief requested by plaintiffs.
A spokeswoman for the development corporation, Janel Patterson, said that the group had followed its standard procedures but declined to explain the basis for selecting FirstFlight, which is based in Elmira, N.Y.
When he questioned Charles Daly, the vice-president of a New York railroad, Daly said that setting prices came down to judgment and, when Brandeis asked him to explain the basis of that judgment, Daly fell right into his trap.
