The phrase "the basic mode of" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when you want to refer to a particular way something is usually done or the normal or typical form of something. For example, "The basic mode of communication in this company is email."
It is perhaps the profound way in which capitalism enters women's minds and bodies that renders "ruthless comparison" the basic mode of their relationships with others.
Even in more temperate times, the basic mode of civic discourse there involves a lengthy question about campaign-finance reform posed by an older man wearing an L.L. Bean barn jacket.
Mr. McKean speaks in a timorous, nasal voice, as if Arthur has become so shriveled up that he has almost lost the ability to assert himself through the basic mode of speech.
The taboo against the class of words epitomized by what that Morality in Media press release called, rather too vividly, the "four-letter word for fecal matter" has been made less urgent by the decline of the horse as the basic mode of urban transport, the universal adoption of modern plumbing, and the successful "Clean up after your dog" crusade that is the lasting legacy of former Mayor Ed Koch.
Quantification is the basic mode of reference to objects, and reference to objects is always ontologically committing.
The basic mode of SuperDARN radar is monitoring of the intensity and speed of the small-scale ionospheric irregularities.
Similarly, the basic modes of writing the descriptive, the narrative, the expository, and the argumentative are found in both nonfictional literature and in fiction, but in different degrees.
Because clarification of the various types of objects must follow from the basic modes of consciousness, Husserl's thought remained close to psychology.
The basic modes of crystal growth under electrochemical conditions are described.
Expressions for stress concentration factors are given, the basic modes of crack growth are shown, crack tip plasticity is discussed and crack propagation rates calculated.
Like the basic modes of motivational orientation themselves, evaluative standards can be classified by the same threefold structure, that is, by cognitive standards (norms of truth), cathectic standards (norms of appreciation) and moral standards (norms of accepted behaviour) which can be formulated as alternatives of decision making.
