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Discover LudwigThe phrase "sole basis" is correct and usable in written English.
It means the only or primary reason or foundation for something. Example: "The sole basis for my decision to hire Susan as my assistant was her impressive resume and qualifications."
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Test scores, at least, shouldn't be the sole basis for admission.
Rather, the sole basis for disqualification is her status as a resident alien.
Race and youth were the sole basis of what defense lawyers deemed "a match".
They have long been regarded as the sole basis of the evidence-based medicine (EBM).
But no security expert trusts the existing profiling system enough to make it the sole basis of security.
The sole basis for protecting publishers who spread false information is that otherwise the truth would too often be suppressed.
As teacher unions have weakened, seniority is no longer the sole basis for layoffs in many districts.
Firstly, a few words on Charlie Hebdo, which was often "analysed" in the British press on the sole basis of a few selected cartoons.
If you want architects to compete on the level of architecture, that is the sole basis on which a winner should be chosen.
And yet, these guidelines will form the sole basis by which treatment coverage recommendations are made to the health minister in the years to come.
But the sole basis for suspicion, they said, should not be a passenger's skin color, ethnicity, religion or foreign-sounding name.
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