adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a basic exercise (=simple)
▪ He showed me some basic exercises for strengthening leg muscles.
a basic ingredient (=an important ingredient)
▪ This mixture of spices is a basic ingredient of the curry sauce.
a basic instinct
▪ The need to survive is the most basic instinct that we have.
a basic outline
▪ I remembered the basic outline of the story, but not how it ended.
a basic requirement
▪ Water is a basic requirement of life.
a basic understanding
▪ The aim of the examination is to test basic understanding of the written language.
a basic/fundamental concept
▪ The children are taught the basic concepts of mathematics.
a basic/fundamental principle (=a very important principle to which other ideas are added)
▪ Applicants should show that they understand the basic principles of marketing.
a basic/fundamental/underlying assumption
▪ There is a basic assumption in international law that a state will protect its citizens.
a fundamental/basic right
▪ The law recognises a man’s fundamental right to defend his home and his property.
a primal/instinctive/basic/natural urge (=a natural urge that all people have)
▪ Every animal has an instinctive urge to survive.
basic amenities (=basic things that people need, such as heat and running water)
▪ houses that lack basic amenities
basic disagreement (also fundamental disagreementformal)
▪ There was fundamental disagreement on what steps should be taken to resolve the problem.
basic knowledge (=knowledge of the basic aspects of something)
▪ These things are obvious to anyone with even a basic knowledge of computers.
basic payBritish English, base pay American English (= not including overtime pay or bonuses)
▪ The basic pay is so low you end up doing lots of overtime.
basic research (=the most important or most necessary area of research)
▪ He wants to conduct basic research into the nature of human cells.
basic skills
▪ The basic skills can be acquired very quickly.
basic structure
▪ These genes are involved in determining the basic structure of cells.
basic techniques
▪ The girls are taught the basic techniques of childcare.
basic training
▪ All navy cooks undergo basic training as sailors.
basic training
basic/base salary (=the basic amount that someone is paid)
▪ You get a basic salary, and then other benefits on top.
basic/elementary precautions
▪ Your home could be at risk if you don't take some basic precautions.
basic/essential vocabulary
▪ The book teaches you the basic vocabulary that you need to know when you're on holiday.
central/basic/fundamental etc tenet
▪ one of the basic tenets of democracy
serious/major/basic/minor etc flaw
▪ a slight flaw in the glass
simple/plain/basic/sheer common sense (=very obviously sensible)
▪ Locking your doors at night is simple common sense.
the basic design (=not including all the small details)
▪ The basic design of the two churches is very similar.
the basic pattern
▪ The basic pattern of her working day rarely changed.
the basic wage (=what someone earns before overtime pay, tips, or bonuses are added)
▪ The basic wage paid at the factory is the lowest in the auto industry, but with bonuses, the total compensation is the highest.
the basic/bare necessities
▪ A lot of families cannot even afford to buy the basic necessities of life.
the basic/key facts
▪ The report outlines the basic facts concerning the case.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ Most of the trekkers' huts have a table, chairs, some basic beds and even more basic mattresses.
▪ Hamann's appeal to language and experience as the ground of reason rests on a still more basic disagreement with Kant.
▪ The difficulty with T7 is even more basic.
▪ It was much simpler and more basic.
▪ Or perhaps by a more basic urge.
▪ Two more basic ingredients of leadership are curiosity and daring.
▪ Words, however, must build on this more basic sense of our own personhood and understanding of the world.
most
▪ Here you are covered for your tank and any furnishings which are damaged, even on the cheapest, most basic policy.
▪ The telephone is still the most basic medium for connections across a fishnet organization.
▪ Some database programs, for example, allow use at the most basic level and produce the required results.
▪ Those same cooks forget from year to year the most basic techniques of getting the bird to the table.
▪ She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal.
▪ The most basic stockbroking service is an execution-only account.
▪ Washington seems unable to agree on even its most basic task, which is to fund the government.
very
▪ My parents were tenants and the house was very basic - the sink was outside and the cooker was on the landing.
▪ Such work presents new understandings in answer to very basic questions.
▪ These very basic differences become manifest in groups.
▪ This gives us some idea of what Turing machines can do at a very basic level.
▪ Comments: Requirements are very basic.
▪ It is at this very basic level that fires make a good subject for television news.
▪ Except for very basic slapstick, humour travels uncertainly. 4.
▪ Table 28-I, on the other hand, indicates a number of very basic manufacturing industries wherein economic power is highly concentrated.
■ NOUN
assumption
▪ It was easy to see what their basic assumption was.
▪ This is a different basic assumption than what is required for a peak performing team.
▪ The two basic assumptions behind the method were set out in a classic paper by W.S.
▪ Like the stomach surgeon, a psychiatrist can make all sorts of basic assumptions when a patient lies down on the couch.
▪ One of the basic assumptions of the radiocarbon method has turned out to be not quite correct.
▪ A basic assumption was that they would be the experts on everything.
▪ By culture we refer to the shared values, beliefs and basic assumptions about what we are doing.
▪ Their basic assumptions are very clear.
concept
▪ But most religious thinkers accommodated themselves fairly rapidly to the basic concept of evolution.
▪ With stakes this high, we have not dared to tamper with the basic concept of motherhood.
▪ The aftermath of the Apollo I fire had left many questioning the basic concept of an attempted Moon landing.
▪ There is no other secret to success than this basic concept.
▪ Consequently the basic concepts have been division of labour, organisational structure, job descriptions, but above all - hierarchy.
▪ People experience modernity without understanding its foundations, its basic concepts.
▪ When the basic concepts have been established the assumption of certainty will be removed.
▪ They are scrambling definitions of basic concepts like quality, time, and values.
education
▪ The specific provision at Southwark includes a basic education programme located on one particular housing estate.
▪ Gandhi appointed him president of the society for basic education.
▪ On one estate basic education and general classes are held in various premises after staff have developed contacts through outreach.
▪ The basic education level of the general population has risen dramatically in recent decades.
▪ These reforms had envisaged reorienting the ten-year basic education programme away from its highly academic content, towards more practical and vocational aspects.
▪ A basic education Escuelita de Bluefields, a school for all ages, opened last summer.
▪ With a list ranging from vocational and leisure courses to adult basic education, there's something for just about everyone.
▪ Teaching modern production skills to those with a good basic education is simply much easier than teaching the illiterate.
fact
▪ Causation, it can be supposed, is less clearly conceived by us than other basic facts.
▪ A handout or employee brochure with the basic facts can be distributed.
▪ That basic fact established, then you knew where you were.
▪ The basic facts are not in dispute.
▪ The Morgan test would not appear to require much more than a knowledge of the basic facts of life.
▪ You need to learn some basic facts about nutrition and the balance of different nutrients that you need at meals.
▪ For one thing, you are forgetting the basic fact that light travels at finite speed.
food
▪ On Oct. 1 the government removed price controls on all goods except basic foods.
▪ Rice was their basic food and their most important food crop, far ahead of maize, taro or sago.
▪ The unions threatened a further general strike on Aug. 22-23 if basic food subsidies and wages were not increased.
▪ State regulation of the price of all basic foods?
▪ Many believe the tax unfairly penalises poor blacks by increasing basic food prices.
▪ The basic food of herbivores is plants, so even the largest carnivorous animals are indirectly dependent on plants.
▪ The Lappish diet is restricted to these basic foods and the result has been both anger and concern.
▪ In Teheran, there have been power cuts, and even basic food stuffs have been short.
form
▪ It is indeed simple, but its basic form is limited.
▪ However, the offense will retain its basic form, a fact with which Abdul-Jabbar is comfortable.
▪ Two basic forms of organisation were found to operate.
▪ The basic form of composition is a circle, symbol of unity, embracing all three angels.
▪ Face-to-Face Contact Direct, face-to-face contact between individuals is the most basic form of political communication.
▪ Even an inexperienced cook can make a pot-au-feu in its basic form.
▪ Associative learning provides explanations for basic forms of learning.
idea
▪ The basic idea was to take one bat away for a night and starve it while the others were all fed.
▪ The sine function, hyperbolic tangent, and other non-linear variations on these basic ideas have also been used.
▪ The basic ideas dominating the educational philosophy of Highlander are two-fold.
▪ Thus it was Genda who first thought up the basic idea that six months later culminated in the Midway operation.
▪ This section looks briefly at some of the basic ideas and illustrates them with the results of some laboratory experiments.
▪ Most caddies today have a basic idea of what is good for their player during a round to provide slow-burning energy.
▪ Such a narrative certainly conveys the basic idea.
information
▪ However, what's desperately needed is basic information.
▪ It provided basic information on Soviet missile testing and, development.
▪ The basic information they needed had been discovered more than two centuries before.
▪ Many genealogists are surprised to find that some of the most basic information is not on the Internet.
▪ But many poor countries lack even basic information about existing education and health programmes.
▪ The morphological structure of a language determines the basic information which must be expressed in that language.
▪ She was horribly short on even the most basic information about the people she wanted to speak to.
▪ It includes basic information for the newcomer either as a solo performer or as a team flyer.
level
▪ Filtration works at two basic levels.
▪ This gives us some idea of what Turing machines can do at a very basic level.
▪ Only at a very basic level of respect for all persons as persons has this been so.
▪ People expect-even demand-a certain basic level of service and product excellence.
▪ The Oregon experiment was introduced to ensure a basic level of health care for poor and elderly people.
▪ At the most basic level, then, the health of women and girls in developing countries continued to be neglected.
▪ We have set very clear targets which will return us to a basic level of performance in the next two years.
▪ At its most basic level, the electronic edition functions just as a dictionary does.
necessity
▪ Food is the basic necessity of life and without it economic progress is impossible.
▪ Rearing a child to maturity requires large expenditures on the basic necessities of life.
▪ For the first time, in many cases, working people were able to purchase more than basic necessities.
▪ Even basic necessities, such as pencils and paper, were often completely lacking.
▪ If a charge is made to some one on income support, this reduces the income available to pay for basic necessities.
▪ Ultimately a growing population of families unable to meet the basic necessities of life invites uncontainable crime and disease.
▪ They were starved of food and basic necessities.
▪ It led all the others, being both a producer of basic necessities and a provider of luxuries.
need
▪ Maslow, if we recall, suggested that this is one of our basic needs. 4.
▪ Romances, then, appeal to a basic need for mental escape and to our sense of practicality.
▪ The social system has certain basic needs which must be met if it is to survive.
▪ With basic needs in increasingly short supply, the social fabric of Cairo is showing signs of fraying.
▪ Even their most basic needs are sometimes ignored.
▪ Man's basic need has not changed over the five centuries that this book covers.
▪ They are for much of their young lives dependent upon family for their basic needs.
pattern
▪ Growth of this basic pattern is required to generate the mature limb.
▪ Here is the basic pattern of all sympathy engrams.
▪ The species within each type represented different modifications of the basic pattern, each adapted to a particular way of life.
▪ Here is the basic pattern Of the engram which will contain the chronic psychosomatic illness in any patient.
▪ In this way, the basic pattern in the egg could be transferred to the cells.
▪ This basic pattern was further complicated as hospital closure programmes progressed and patients were moved back to their health authority of origin.
▪ This is a very basic pattern but it can alter a plain garment dramatically.
▪ Measure for Measure takes this basic pattern and develops it in a new direction.
pay
▪ It has been a great success in giving around 2m people-8 % of workers-new basic pay rights.
▪ The lighting engineer boosts his £15,000 basic pay with bonuses for being on call at Newcastle upon Tyne all through the night.
▪ But it was not included as basic pay when the club's accounts were published.
▪ They established considerable control over recruitment and promotion, and even collected special levies to supplement their basic pay.
▪ The solution is simple: high basic pay for high performance during limited hears.
▪ The unions' move leaves unchanged the central issues of basic pay and a pay formula.
pension
▪ Your basic pension may be increased if you are supporting a dependent spouse or children.
▪ However, to get any basic pension you must satisfy two conditions.
▪ Graduated pension is increased annually in the same way as the basic pension.
▪ In money terms, the value is about 60 percent of the level of basic pension to which their husband is entitled.
▪ Firstly, women can only receive a pension based on their husband's contributions if he himself is in receipt of a basic pension.
▪ Nearly 60% of pensioners receive at least 75% of their income from state benefits, particularly the basic pension.
▪ When you retire, you will get the basic pension instead of the widow's pension you were getting.
principle
▪ The author focuses in on very basic principles, which makes this book easy to read, even by first time users.
▪ This is a basic principle of capitalism.
▪ Robodyne Systems has already demonstrated the basic principle, albeit on a much bigger physical scale.
▪ Indeed, Piaget asserted that the basic principles of cognitive development are the same as those of biological development.
▪ The basic principle behind all the various systems is that of the x, y co-ordinate.
▪ Mills valued this dimension in his essay on basic principles and again in the essay on craft or methods.
▪ This is becoming more complex and the only way to meet these challenges is to base management on well-understood basic principles.
▪ The basic principles of large units, deep ranks, and good characters doubly apply to Goblins.
problem
▪ The basic problems, however, remain much the same.
▪ Until the basic problems of invisibility and her own feeling of worthlessness were addressed, the situation would continue to recur.
▪ Maybe that was the basic problem, she told herself wearily as she now stared blindly up at the ceiling.
▪ Taking an aspirin or two may help also, though only by masking the pain, not by solving the basic problem.
▪ But then you need to deal with the basic problem.
▪ The Stolypin reforms, Soviet historians would maintain, had not solved the basic problem which made revolution inevitable.
▪ Our basic problem was that there was no way that we could all sit down with Frank and talk about it.
question
▪ This basic question may be broken down into a number of smaller ones.
▪ Every psychotherapy process, early in its development, defines the basic questions it is trying to answer.
▪ It can do so by focusing on five basic questions which are expressed in Figure 4.1.
▪ The basic questions will be the same: When will elections be held?
▪ In formulating answers to the two basic questions, one factor was paramount.
▪ At the heart of all of the basic questions about normality we shall find we are spinning our wheels.
▪ Therefore, the basic question was: what were business secrets?
rate
▪ The spot rate is also known as the basic rate or telegraphic transfer rate.
▪ If you pay the basic rate, every £1.00 you give is suddenly worth £1.33.
▪ But for the basic rate taxpayer, the problem of annual management charges eroding a diminished dividend yield remains.
▪ From Jan. 1, 1993, a basic rate of 25 percent would be charged on most goods and services.
▪ Each £100 investment will cost a higher rate taxpayer only £60, and a basic rate taxpayer £78.
▪ We have cut the basic rate of Income Tax from 33p to 25p, and the top rate from 83p to 40p.
▪ Provided the gift is at least £600 it will be regarded as having been paid net of basic rate tax.
▪ When making that payment, Tradeco must deduct income tax at the basic rate and pay that to the Revenue.
requirement
▪ The basic requirement is that glazing in certain critical locations must be safe.
▪ Nor are dialects subject to judgment, so long as they meet the basic requirement of having clearly defined rules.
▪ This is a very basic requirement of any measuring device.
▪ Anyone who meets a few basic requirements can get a permit to carry a concealed gun.
▪ Each of them, however, raises certain basic requirements of a conceptual and empirical kind.
▪ Certainly there may be the odd chart or graph thrown in for luck but the basic requirement is for high quality text.
▪ Playing to a consistent length is one of the basic requirements to perform to a high level.
▪ Psychological resources must also be taken into account to see if the basic requirements for daily life can be met.
research
▪ Others were part of basic research on living tissue, and their benefits could not have been realised at the time.
▪ Taylor offered his group a rare opportunity: the freedom to do basic research for a handsome corporate salary.
▪ Jones is also determined to increase funding for basic research, which he says the previous government allowed to run down.
▪ Our mission is three-fold: To undertake basic research to advance knowledge for its own sake.
▪ More effective drugs had their origin in the basic research on chemical transmission of nerve impulses described in chapter 4.
▪ It does, however, present a number of operational difficulties that require basic research before it can be widely used.
▪ This need not apply to basic research and design.
rule
▪ It contains sixteen basic rules, which include some for overall control and some which collect data.
▪ Most people nowadays are aware of some of the basic rules of healthy living.
▪ Far too many women are defeated by this supposedly basic rule of motherhood, including the most educated and ambitious.
▪ They broke the basic rule of presentation which applies in politics as much as it does in other fields.
▪ Shelter from the storm was a basic rule of humanity and yet not to be misunderstood as an invitation.
▪ In this section we bring the basic rules together.
▪ The basic rule was always the same.
salary
▪ Managers may earn bonuses up to 25 percent of their basic salary in some hotels.
▪ There is a generous stock-option scheme, and performance-related pay that can, in some cases, double basic salaries.
▪ Blackwell and Deane received a basic salary plus poundage according to the level of military spending.
▪ A spokeswoman for the Savoy Group said that anything a concierge earned on top of his basic salary was' entirely his affair.
▪ Managers receive rent-free accommodation and a basic salary.
▪ Expatriates' salaries are generally built up from a number of separate elements starting with basic salary.
service
▪ The main tasks of the non-metropolitan districts were concerned with housing and basic services such as street cleaning and refuse collection.
▪ But a serious lag in the development of infrastructure has followed rapid annexation, and many annexed areas still lack basic services.
▪ In hospital environments basic services such as cooking and laundry were organized centrally and cleaning was undertaken by domestics.
▪ Thousands of families live there without basic services because government agencies are barred from supplying electricity and water to disputed areas.
▪ Table 10.1 illustrates this with reference to revenue expenditure on basic services by the ten district councils in the Greater Manchester area in 1987/8.
▪ There are basic services, including good public transportation, sanitation, a sound infrastructure.
▪ Dormitory centres Within the catchment area of a burgh; basic services available; some growth potential and encouragement to industry.
▪ This money helps people out of work because of disability or injury and provides basic services to the poorest of the poor.
skill
▪ A basic skill that gives them the greatest start in life.
▪ Successful programs teach students basic skills to help them say no to drugs.
▪ They're just mastering the basic skills of walking and talking, which open up a whole new world for them.
▪ In an attempt to know how well students are learning these basic skills, school systems administer standardized achievement tests.
▪ There is certainly room for a programme on coaching and basic skills, but Rugby Special is not it.
▪ Foundation-level basic skills or university Access / foundation courses are generally free.
▪ Access to Management Normally these cover basic skills in managing people, resources and finance and are for aspiring or new managers.
▪ This manifests itself most obviously at the technical level where the same basic skills can be applied in different markets.
structure
▪ We had to get the basic structure right, the basic information flows in and then bring the consultants in.
▪ November 1989 brought more shifts in the basic structure of the world system than had been seen since the summer of 1945.
▪ For the United States was built on at least two basic structures, the old capitalism and the new.
▪ Another important branch of philosophy relevant here is metaphysics, which tries to discover the basic structure of reality.
▪ Imposing such a burden would alter the basic structure between state and federal governments, which is critical to our constitutional scheme.
▪ In terms of basic structure there is no doubt that Dame Sirith belongs to the same genre.
▪ These stain hair without interfering with its basic structure.
tenet
▪ Taking each in turn, their basic tenets and relative political attractions can be highlighted.
▪ One of the basic tenets of the campaign finance system is disclosure.
▪ Another basic tenet of the free market is the free flow of labour.
▪ Trying to force people into unwanted roles violates the most basic tenet of Western culture.
▪ They boiled down to three basic tenets.
▪ Here Whitman sets forth his basic tenets and suggests the central movement that is to follow.
▪ Mostly, they have failed to acknowledge one basic tenet of the high-tech world: We know too much.
training
▪ In the main, however, the selection procedure is rigorous enough so that basic training does not have to be used for assessment purposes.
▪ Group-based training need form only a small part of the complete basic training course.
▪ The basic training is amazingly quick.
▪ I think they all take a course in it during basic training.
▪ L Detachment at the time consisted of around one hundred men, most of whom had been through the basic training course.
▪ Prevention is better than cure, and you should use a lot of deep stances during your basic training.
▪ This is the reward for hours of basic training.
▪ The continuing theme during basic training will be interviewing skills, without which the advisory process may not get under way.
truth
▪ The value of the political talks so far has been to expose three basic truths.
▪ Communism forgot that basic truth and the system collapsed.
▪ There is a basic truth in his assertion, for before his time the use of marble was rare in Roman architecture.
▪ What have been taught as their basic truths seem no longer to hold.
▪ Another over-eager cat has discovered one of the basic truths of garden life: never try to kill a toad.
▪ Such leaders understand very basic truths about human beings.
▪ And if religion was rational, and basic truths were plain, what justification could there be for compulsion?
▪ The basic truths of it, once you have learned them, are difficult to forget.
type
▪ These improvements are of two basic types.
▪ Laptops come with three basic types of pointing devices: a track ball, a mini-joystick or a touch pad.
▪ The outcome is that adjectives expressing the more basic types of property can generally be expected to appear prenominally but not postnominally.
▪ There are two basic types of smoke alarm.
▪ There were two basic types of machine-gun.
▪ There are three basic types of fixed dispenser the swivel, the lift pump and the gravity feed.
▪ Within this general description there are two basic types namely the batch and continuous loader.
▪ This has become the generic term for any system used to search on the Internet, and there are two basic types.
understanding
▪ They attend sporadically, and their basic understanding of history is usually sketchy.
▪ Different aspects of basic understanding are needed in different areas of the world.
▪ The first and third years of the course provide a basic understanding of the industry.
▪ It is important to have some clear basic understanding of the nature of bereavement and the grief that follows it.
unit
▪ Kogan and Becher have argued that, beyond the individual academic, the department is the basic unit of academic life.
▪ In language the basic units are distinctive sounds and words.
▪ The sentence belongs to writing, forming there the basic unit of textual structures.
▪ The change in price from the first to the second sale of each house is the basic unit measured.
▪ Its accessories enable the basic unit to use the cleaning and sterilising power of steam for cleaning, too.
▪ These terms are meant to indicate that the basic units of writing are pictures divorced from sound.
▪ The basic unit of bucket, up-pipe and pebbles with oxygenators in place makes a simple fountain on its own.
▪ The basic units for any steel-framed building are columns and beams.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ basic cooking utensils
▪ basic healthcare for children
▪ Basic human rights are still denied in many countries.
▪ a basic knowledge of scientific principles
▪ I can't really speak Spanish, I just know a few basic words.
▪ In addition to teaching basic academic skills, we offer a large variety of activities for students.
▪ It's only six years old, but already my home PC is basic compared to today's models.
▪ People were standing in lines to buy basic goods such as bread, cheese, and milk.
▪ Some of the hotels in the mountains are pretty basic.
▪ Tax money pays for basic services.
▪ The basic ingredients of this cake are eggs, flour, and butter.
▪ The basic model costs £30,000, which includes insurance and car tax.
▪ the basic principles of mathematics
▪ The farm lacks even basic equipment.
▪ The government regards housing as a basic need.
▪ The hospital lacked even the most basic medical equipment.
▪ There are two basic problems here.
▪ Water -- indeed, everything basic to life here -- must be brought in by truck.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And basic literacy levels are higher for a more diverse group of young people.
▪ But they do not alter the basic fact: markets now operate more fluently, reliably and consistently.
▪ But we still deal from our basic collection, buying and selling.
▪ It is important to have some clear basic understanding of the nature of bereavement and the grief that follows it.
▪ The basic ideas dominating the educational philosophy of Highlander are two-fold.
▪ The basic mechanism is to build an edge from left to right.
▪ The horse has a basic and essential need for affection; both to give and to receive it.
▪ Thus the state should be mainly a night watchman, a low-profile policeman who ensures the basic safety of every individual.