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2354 examples of Basis in a sentence

Human ones weigh 1.5 kilograms, elephant brains 5 kg, and whale brains 9 kg, yet on a per weight basis, humans pack in more neurons than any other species.
On a daily basis, we are bombarded with attention-grabbing news, backed up by scientific studies, but what are these studies?
But it would be a mistake to dismiss the significance of ancient Athenian democracy on the basis of whom it excluded.
This is the basis of the music of Whirling Dervishes, as well as a broad range of Latin American rhythms, such as Joropo, and even Bach's famous Chaconne.
First, remember that many of the lies we encounter on a daily basis are far less serious that these examples, and may even be harmless.
Thus, slavery in Europe and the Americas acquired a racial basis, making it impossible for slaves and their future descendants to attain equal status in society.
This structure of the pinhole camera with a lens served as the basis for what would eventually evolve into the human eye.
And we are now friends, and on a regular basis, we remind him and his team of the promises he has made.
If that sounds familiar, it's because the historical conflicts known as the Wars of the Roses served as the basis for much of the drama in Game of Thrones.
And whether or not body building is your hobby, muscles need your constant attention because the way you treat them on a daily basis determines whether they will wither or grow.
I think we ought to approach this challenge with a sense of profound joy and gratitude that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.
The richness and fullness of the dialogue in our democracy has not laid the basis for the kind of bold initiative that is really needed.
On a normal, day-to-day basis, maintaining a well-hydrated system is easy to manage for those of us fortunate enough to have access to clean drinking water.
Fame and money insulates these television star trans people from most of the everyday challenges that the rest of us have to tackle on a daily basis.
But on a global basis, 93 percent of all the extra heat energy is trapped in the oceans.
A lot of countries are getting more than half on an average basis.
Water is the basis of all life as we know it, and it's far too heavy for us to carry water from the Earth to Mars to live, so we have to find water if our life is going to succeed on Mars.
We just want her on the board with us', or, 'He can pay me back at the end of the game, when he's flush with cash', and I'm thinking again, 'What am I teaching these kids?' So, I started watching how they were playing - listening to their banter, getting a feel for how they were making decisions - and I had this thought: 'What if they're playing this way because the money isn't real?' It's a concept I've been reading a lot about, lately, 'Financial abstraction', the notion that when money becomes more and more of an idea, less tangible and therefore more abstract, it changes the way we interact with it on a regular basis, and there's anecdotal evidence of abstraction everywhere around us.
And here's the key; they get to spend it with your subtle guidance, your subtle mentorship, your subtle supervision, and whether you call it an allowance, you call it commission for chores or you call it a weekly stipend, every single child, from the age of five on up, needs to be given some tangible amount of money on a weekly basis so that they understand how to function in a cashless society someday.
And think how you change on a daily basis from the interaction and coupling to other people in your life.
Mind reading is important for lying because the basis of lying is that I know you don't know what I know.
Now how about social workers and child-protection lawyers, who work with children on a daily basis?
What about judges, customs officers and police officers, who deal with liars on a daily basis?
But we can't make policy on the basis of mere feelings, especially not over the heads of the people actually effected by those policies.
So every image is now the basis for, "What do I think I see next?
The Oxford Living Dictionary defines it as: "the operation or planning of economic and foreign policy on a global basis."
This was something humans could exploit on a consistent basis, and the birds’ weak flight capabilities and limited need for space made them easy to capture and contain.
And it needs to be reclaimed on a far more inclusive basis than it is today.
And this nanocrystalline cellulose is so strong, on a weight basis, it's about 10 times stronger than steel.
We're talking about regrown agricultural fields, timber plantations that are not being managed on a day-to-day basis, second-growth forests generally, the entire East Coast, where after agriculture moved west, the forest sprung up.
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