Sentence examples for unusual basis from inspiring English sources

The focus on people who are left-handed, and the whole idea of being a lefty, is an unusual basis for a television show.

Tung had a military background almost entirely in security and counterespionage, which was an unusual basis for leading the special forces.

This growth, coupled with its unusual economic basis, has made Las Vegas one of the wealthiest cities in the country, but it has also brought problems to the area.

That's what made the tawdry stories that emerged about the unusual commission basis on which he is being paid, with reports that he would be paid £1 for each extra ticket sold, especially unfortunate.

Lancashire have refused to confirm or deny reports that Andrew Flintoff will be paid on an unusual commission basis if and when he appears in their Twenty20 Blast team this summer, but left no doubt about their disgust that the details have entered the public domain.

Even though Architeuthis may have bigger eyes than average for squid, its eye size cannot be considered exceptional or unusual on the basis of the available data.

It should be noted that the original study selected some individuals on the basis of unusual haemoglobin phenotype, so, given that Hpr binds haemoglobin, it is possible that this enriched for unusual HPR genotypes.

IT is not every day that ads praising and attacking cigarette smoking are posted opposite each other in the same room, but that unusual juxtaposition is the basis of a current exhibit that is intended to offer a new perspective on tobacco marketing.

Others, like Loren B. Thompson of the independent Lexington Institute, caution that the Pentagon may commit too much, too soon to technologies that may be overrated on the basis of unusual recent wars -- notably the victory over the poorly trained and under-equipped Taliban forces in Afghanistan.

At a time when print newspapers are cutting back on coverage, criticism and staffing, the addition of not one, but two restaurant critics — even on a freelance basis — seems unusual, especially since Brett Anderson, the award-winning restaurant critic of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, was laid off on Tuesday, along with about 200 other employees.

A sleeve-like model was proposed to describe the unusual morphology on the basis of polymer self-drawing and convection around reaction front.