Groundworkers usually work on a labour, plant and material basis.

They are not concerned with a substance, such as a soul, that contains no material basis.

The 17th Party congress in 1934, proclaimed that the building of the material basis for a socialist society had succeeded.

They have to be convinced, that priests need a material basis to exist and to work for them.

What experience gives us is not knowledge itself, but the ideas which form the material basis for knowledge.

Military relationship is an integral part of the Armed Forces, and its material basis.

It is the scientific use of the imagination, but we have always some material basis on which to start our speculation.

During the last few months I have been to America in order to help to raise the material basis for this university there.

After this success I have no doubt that the material basis for the other faculties will soon be forthcoming.

Finally, paper formed the material basis for the Islamic art form best known in the West, miniature painting.