"potential basis" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a possible foundation or foundation of evidence for something. For example, "The facts presented in the experiment provide a potential basis for further research in this field."
The stress conditions identified in Fig. 3 provide the potential basis for a human disease model drug-discovery platform.
China initially embraced Bitcoin and saw local miners as the potential basis for a new industry focused on digital currencies.
The fact that Justices O'Connor and Kennedy evidently did not share these deeper concerns had offered a potential basis for a coalition between them and the dissenters.
These findings point to a new important function of UNC5B and provide a potential basis for hASCs-mediated bone regeneration.
Pirc, known for its highly critical views, claimed bonus awards looked "highly excessive on a potential basis" and the long-term incentive plan (LTIP) lacked an upper limit.
Another lawyer suggested that perhaps the judge sought to keep reporters out to head off a potential basis for an appeal by defense lawyers who might argue that the jury was affected by their presence.
It is moving toward final approval of an ugly new law that would introduce DNA testing as a potential basis for excluding prospective immigrants hoping to reunify with family members already living in France.
but also the circumstances under which they are coming in: their use, their availability, their character" could endanger the national security and hence should be a potential basis for Presidential action.
It's worth the expense, he adds, because the Yaqui catfish is a part of the regional and national heritage, a traditional food source for indigenous people, and the potential basis for a recreational fishery.
