Sentence examples for tangible basis from inspiring English sources

When it came to filming, it was an advantage for the production to have a real-life, tangible basis for its protagonists, especially seeing as sitcom history couldn't provide a template.

You know – the "butterfly effect" on a local and tangible basis.

It reminds me of the old lefty cliche about Tories shutting down youth clubs – something that sounds more like an accusation spouted at William Hague on Question Time than anything that has any tangible basis in reality.

Bender wrote that Crane "emphasizes that Billie's steady, simple labor is the tangible basis for his role here as a savior," and that the oiler's portrayal as a "simple, working seaman, clearly expresses his sympathy with the democratic ideal of the sailor before the mast that figures so crucially in the tradition of American sea fiction".

The conundrum lies in the fact that there are no direct functional similarities between music and other pleasure-producing stimuli: it has no clearly established biological value (cf., food, love, and sex), no tangible basis (cf., pharmacological drugs and monetary rewards), and no known addictive properties (cf., gambling and nicotine).

4 31 32 Unlike other illnesses with a common cultural paradigm and/or a more insidious onset (eg, rheumatoid arthritis), the frequently emergency, opportunistic or inexplicable nature of critical illness may deny survivors a tangible basis upon which to attribute meaning or causality.

"On a tangible common equity basis, we are fine.

The results obtained in our study also have wider implications in our understanding of how prehistoric peoples perceived the landscape in which they lived in, understood not only on the basis of tangible elements but, perhaps more importantly, because of intangible aspects such as sound and, in particular, echoes.

Stripped of our usual bearings and sanctuaries, we must now decide on a daily basis what our tangible actions will be.

It directs a Verizon division, Verizon Business Network Services, to turn over "on an ongoing daily basis" the "following tangible things": All call detail records or "telephony metadata" created by Verizon for communications (i) between the United States and abroad; or (ii) wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls.

Data management Monitoring provides tangible information on a regular basis over an extended period of time about past and present conditions of the environment and thus, generates large amounts of data.