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Example sentences for "basic"

Lexicographically close words:
bashfull; bashfully; bashfulness; bashing; basi; basically; basicity; basicranial; basics; basidia
  1. When we examine them closely, haphazardly chosen as they have been, there is a strange uniformity and contradiction in their basic situations.

  2. But those laws that are basic in the condition of life no man can evade.

  3. Bit by bit I picked up those outer resemblances which give to men the world over their basic brotherliness.

  4. A man from Coney Island, accustomed to that hysterical release of emotion, would have felt that he was attending not a carnival, but an open market in which only the basic necessities of life were in demand.

  5. And in the chapter on Japan and the Far East I shall elucidate the basic facts in that contention for the elimination of a White-Australia policy.

  6. He had been led to draw from Scripture one basic principle which to him was the embodiment of truth, viz.

  7. Luther’s marginal glosses to his translation of the Bible are open to plentiful objections, for their purpose is to recall the reader as often as possible to the basic theories of his doctrine.

  8. It was not the basic principle of the Reformation, and to-day in the Protestant Churches it is quite dead.

  9. All these facts are sufficient proof that the above literary remnants do not greatly exaggerate the moral and intellectual condition of that class, which is the basic element of every civilization.

  10. The results he achieves are in part conditioned by his interpretation of his basic terms.

  11. As before, all he could offer his family were the basic necessities.

  12. This basic reasoning should be obvious to anyone at all.

  13. Being a menial did not trouble him at all, but he worried greatly over the fact that he was seldom able to offer his family more than the basic necessities of food, clothing, and shelter.

  14. These you have got to do anyhow, but they are meant to inflow into every action of your life and to make the basic principle of them all, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

  15. It is curious how many educated people, or at least supposedly educated people, have this as their basic notion of the history of science.

  16. It is doubtless to this that we owe the fact that these men were gradually organized in many wonderful ways into the basic democracy on which the liberties of the English-speaking people of the world are founded.

  17. The work of the project had practically come to a standstill; the ultra-secret project reports to the President were beginning to show less and less progress in the basic research, and more and more progress in repairing damaged equipment.

  18. Taggert had explained the basic problem to him, but he was getting a wider picture from the additional information that Senator Gonzales had brought.

  19. The plutonic masses are represented by the granite of Ben Cruachan, by the diorite of Gleann Domhainn, and by the kentallenite (a basic rock related to the monxonites), near Ballachulish.

  20. The acid and basic plutonic rocks (gabbros and granophyres) of Tertiary time occur in Ardnamurchan.

  21. Magna Charta, glorious as it was, was only the beginning of that basic legislation which was to distinguish the Thirteenth Century in England.

  22. To remove the first objection at once, let me say that I did not give up hypnotism because I desired to avoid dealing with the basic motives of the human soul, but rather because I wanted to battle with them directly and openly.

  23. It is both more interesting and more useful to study carefully the basic causes of these movements than to chime in with the lamentations of the professional mourners over morals, who prophesy with unction the moral downfall of humanity.

  24. But since the constructive method results in something far removed from scientific theory the great antiquity of the basic concepts therein must speak in favour of its extreme correctness.

  25. The heat developed by the fermenting material vaporizes the acetic acid, and this vapour corrodes the lead, forming basic lead acetate.

  26. Verdigris, or basic copper acetate, is a valuable pigment.

  27. The basic portion of the glass mixture differs according to the kind of glass required.

  28. Phosphorus is then converted into phosphate and retained by the lining, which is subsequently removed, ground up finely, and sold as "basic slag.

  29. The original Bessemer process was, therefore, modified by Thomas and Gilchrist, and the converter for this kind of iron is lined with dolomite and lime (basic lining).

  30. Remembering that glass is composed of the salts of silicic acid, the reader will readily understand that the mixture from which it is made must contain acidic and basic constituents.

  31. Yet all through there runs, both in the living and in the skeletal remains, so much of a basic identity that no separation into any distinct original "races" is possible.

  32. They speak strongly for the basic identity of the old Igloo people with those of at least parts of the Seward Peninsula and parts of the northwest coast.

  33. The general basic prototype of the Eskimo, according to all evidence, is so closely akin to that of the Indian that the two can not be fully separated.

  34. But the more basic humero-femoral and radio-humeral indices are practically the same; showing fundamental identity.

  35. The nearest physical relatives of the Eskimo are evidently some of the Chukchi, with probably some other north Asiatic groups; their nearest basic relatives in general are, according to many indications, the American Indians.

  36. The materials at hand give no substantiation to the possibility of the Eskimo belonging to more than one basic strain of people.

  37. This basic geologic concept states that unless a series of sedimentary rock has been overturned, a given rock layer is older than the strata above it, and younger than all of the layers below it.

  38. Much of the basic information which the geologist uses to reconstruct the geologic history of a region comes from his examination and interpretation of bedrock outcrops.

  39. Period--a basic unit of the geologic time scale into which the eras are divided, such as the Pennsylvanian Period of the Paleozoic Era.

  40. The (0) may have a multiple value; in other words, the inherent formal modification of the basic notion of the word may affect more than one category.

  41. Noelting and Herzberg have also observed that the fastness to light, even of basic colors, e.

  42. Among the "basic colors" we search in vain, however, for a really fast dye on any fiber.

  43. The "basic colors" have a well known type in magenta.

  44. It has a strong and rapidly growing private sector, yet the state still plays a major role in basic industry, banking, transport, and communication.

  45. Tajikistan thus depends on aid from Russia and Uzbekistan and on international humanitarian assistance for much of its basic subsistence needs.

  46. The government is beginning to show progress on its basic policy of diversifying the economy away from oil and gas.

  47. Import restrictions and inefficient resource allocations have led to periodic shortages of basic goods and foodstuffs.

  48. The almost total lack of basic infrastructure in the countryside will continue to hinder development.

  49. Because of the climate, agricultural development is limited to maintaining self-sufficiency in basic products.

  50. Similar answers in the form of questions Nekhludoff found in scientific books to his one basic question.

  51. And it cannot be different, because mutual love is the basic law of human life.

  52. The development of the key and the basic industries will give plenty of work to the people and will raise their wages as well as their standard of living.

  53. Of course, when the key and basic industries are developed, the various other industries will spontaneously spring up all over the country, in a very short time.

  54. Any theory of nature which for one moment loses sight of these great basic facts of experience is simply silly.

  55. It results from these investigations that the formulae of the third case and the orthodox formulae are on a level as possible formulae resulting from the basic character of our knowledge of nature.

  56. These observations on earth constitute the basic principle of the famous experiments designed to detect the motion of the earth through the ether.

  57. The pages that follow provide basic information about two subjects that can be richly rewarding whether you follow them for profit, as Shell does, or for pleasure, as millions of people around the world do.

  58. This principle has come to be regarded as a basic one in the foreign relations of the United States, and while no European power has formally acknowledged it, more than one have had to bow before it.

  59. This is the basic difference between great men and little ones--the little ones are concerned solely with to-day; the great ones think only of the future.

  60. Take so basic a matter as paying one's debts, for example: it is a part of the Chinaman's religion to get even with the world on every Chinese New Year, which comes in February.

  61. There are, of course, certain basic and fundamental reasons for white leadership that I need not elaborate.

  62. There is, of course, nothing new about the basic theory of the second-stage drive.

  63. The basic ideas are simple enough," Reine said, "once you see how they fit together.

  64. The basic unified field equations were the first step.

  65. And although there is no hesitancy in admitting the basic agreement of the most primary facts of mathematical knowledge with the essential character of the intellect the existence of well-defined limits for such congruence cannot be gainsaid.

  66. It is certain, however, that silica apparatus must never be too strongly heated in contact with basic substances.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "basic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.