The phrase "factual base" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the foundational information or evidence that supports a claim or argument.
Example: "In order to make a sound decision, we need to establish a solid factual base for our analysis."
Alternatives: "factual foundation" or "evidence base."
Despite its occasional stagey and verbose tendencies, it is compelling and absorbing — and it has a factual base.
To this dry factual base, the prosecutors added descriptions of discussions between Mr Gupta and Mr Rajaratnam, followed by frantic, lucrative trading at Galleon.
What impressed him was the report's factual base that highlighted the structural inequalities, particularly within the criminal justice system, that black boys and young black men face in the UK today.
In fact any analysis of the war's causes that didn't take these into account would be deficient.Claims that the Jews caused the world wars through their financial conspiracies and so forth are pure fantasies with no factual base, motivated by religious bigotry and paranoid worldviews.
Metaphor can bridge the gap, though, and when it tells us that the instrument's "call is the call of the stallion to the mare" there's a factual base: the fiddle's strings were traditionally "male" and "female", one using stallion hair, the other, that of a mare.
The analysis reported here shows that this claim should be considered as lacking factual base.
"But the factual bases for these reports are rock solid and thoroughly documented".
A spokeswoman for Wyeth said the company did not think there were any legal or factual bases for such lawsuits.
"We scrutinize each request for legal sufficiency under our terms and the strict letter of the law, and require a detailed description of the legal and factual bases for each request".
However, Morgan's comments were factual, based on military intelligence.
Now, complainants dissatisfied with and challenge the legal or factual bases of an adverse ruling from OCR on their complaint must appeal OCR's ruling to the very same office within OCRC that ruled against them.
