1.   The basis was laid for the flowering of secular literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

2.   A recent survey of mutual fund investors would suggest so, raising the possibility they may be laying the basis for a major disappointment.

3.   But now a serious sense of European citizenship, and the rights that go with it, seem to be laying the basis of a supranational identity here.

4.   Grannis also said the absence of any clear inflation evidence suggested that the Fed might not raise rates, laying the basis for a possible rally.

5.   In humans, it laid the basis for spoken and sign language and in chimps it laid the basis for a more gesture-based language.

6.   It was the study of these relatively simple biological processes that laid the basis for much of modern biology.

7.   It was the English astronomer Richard Carrington who first suggested a link between the sun and auroras, laying the basis for accurate predictions.

8.   McLuhan never knew Dick Morris, but he laid the basis for understanding him.

9.   This month the warring parties signed an accord negotiated by Assistant Secretary of State Richard C. Holbrooke that laid the basis for a peace agreement.

10.   Three scientists who laid the basis for much of the present understanding of the interconnection between brain cells were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine.