"started from the basis" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a person or a thing being founded, established, or developed from a basic starting point. For example: "The successful company started from the basis of two engineers with a shared vision".
We started from the basis that there should be no "understanding" test.
We started from the basis of Kimber's capacity model, HCM2010 serviceability model, and Maycock and Hall's accident prediction model, which we extended by adding sensitivity analysis and powerful MOO procedures of the bounded objective function method and interactive optimization.
"We started from the basis that children have a right to have contact with both their parents as long as that's not going to be a risk to them; that's basic children's rights in the UN convention".
"I start from the basis that anything I post is public," said Matthew MacLachlan, an intercultural trainer.
"Trustees … felt strongly that viewers had every right to expect the BBC would start from the basis of equality between male and female players," said the judgment.
The simplest rule for the image of the game is to start from the basis that slogans will not be allowed".
The trust said "viewers had every right to expect the BBC would start from the basis of equality between male and female players".
Asked why LBR made a point of calling itself a black and Asian organisation, the spokesman said the group "values its political allies", but has to start from "the basis of the makeup of our group.
Let's start from the basis that all young people deserve empathy, support and education – not because they can cause pain and hurt, but because they can feel pain and hurt.
"If we start from the basis that the Mediterranean diet is good for reducing cardiovascular risks and that countries far from the region are adopting it, it's a paradox to discover that we're giving it up," José Abellán of the Catholic University of San Antonio de Murcia told fellow cardiovascular specialists at this week's conference.
"Any policy has to be comprehensive, it has to start from the basis that we are signed up to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, itself a creation of the 1960s Labour government of Harold Wilson, and there also has to be a policy of what we do to ensure protection of skills and jobs throughout British industry that are in some part reliant on the whole Trident nuclear programme," he said.
