sole basis

collocation in English

meaningsofsoleandbasis

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sole
adjective[before noun]
uk
/səʊl/us
/soʊl/
being one ...
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basis
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbeɪ.sɪs/us
/ˈbeɪ.sɪs/
the most important facts, ideas, etc. from which something ...
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(Definition ofsoleandbasisfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsole basis

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The sole source of legitimate authority (though, as said above, not thesolebasisof political duty) is, then, the rational consent of individuals.
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This would be expected to be the case if greater stem partitioning was thesolebasisfor the higher reserve storage.
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However, the contested notion of universal jurisdiction has rarely been successfully invoked as thesolebasisof a third-country prosecution.
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The secretion of polymers with sticky side chains might be thesolebasisof the time-dependent increase in the strength of bacterial adhesion.
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There is therefore no firm historical reason to assume, on thesolebasisof their common name, that the mathematicians' structures and those of the linguists were closely related.
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This is rarely thesolebasisfor a work, but might coexist with the others, especially the 'environmental', and may approach at times the 'instrumental' paradigm.
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Cost of living indices are not, of course, thesolebasison which wage and salary increases are decided.
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That is thesolebasison which one can hope for any progress.
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The whole approach to dedication must be revised if it is to be made thesolebasisof tax concessions.
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This is the true foundation of the dignity of man and thesolebasisof an unalterable happiness.
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Human rights are now integrated in the general law and are rarely thesolebasisfor a challenge.
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But we have made it clear that it cannot be thesolebasisfor deciding future policy.
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Can that be thesolebasisand justification for abolishing an oil trading corporation?
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Those reports would play an important part, but they would not be thesolebasisfor such an inquiry.
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That is thesolebasison which either of these cases come in.
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That was thesolebasisand it remains so today.
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That is thesolebasisof my complaint.
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That differs widely across the country, so it could not be thesolebasis.
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That is undermining the entire contributory principle and announcing that means testing will be thesolebasisof the whole system.
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That is thesolebasison which he put his argument.
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