7 sentences with 'basically'
Example sentences and phrases with the word basically and other words derived from it.
• « Fats are basically composed on the basis of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, being also the most concentrated source of energy and playing the role of combustion materials, such as carbohydrates. »
• « Arab invasions quickly destroyed Byzantine power in the Near East and North Africa, and although fragments of Justinian's reconquest remained in Byzantine hands until the 8th century, "Byzantium" was basically synonymous with the contiguous territory of the Balkans, Greece and most of Anatolia by then. »
• « Conservatism was totally opposed to the idea of universal legal equality, let alone suffrage (i.e. the right to vote), and basically amounted to an attempt to maintain a legal political hierarchy to accompany the existing social and economic hierarchy in European society. »
• « In the early modern era, luxury goods were basically reserved for the nobility and the gentry. There was simply not enough social wealth for the vast majority of Europeans to buy many things they did not need. »
• « By the late 18th century, both Europeans and their local agents (i.e. the Ottomans) were basically above the law in Ottoman territories and also enjoyed freedom in most forms of taxation. »
• « Since the Renaissance, Western musicians had basically worked on the same set of scales. As a result, listeners were "trained" from birth to expect certain sounds and certain rhythms in music. Schoenberg deliberately subverted these expectations, inserting dissonances and unexpected notes into many of his works. »