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Let ${Rₙ}_{n=1}^{∞}$ be a commuting approximating sequence of the Banach space X leaving the closed subspace A ⊂ X invariant. Then we prove three-space results of the following kind: If the operators Rₙ induce basis projections on X/A, and X or A is an $ℒ_{p}$-space, then both X and A have bases. We apply these results to show that the spaces $C_{Λ} = \overline{span}{z^{k} : k ∈ Λ} ⊂ C(𝕋)$ and $L_{Λ} = \overline{span}{z^{k} : k ∈ Λ} ⊂ L₁(𝕋)$ have bases whenever Λ ⊂ ℤ and ℤ∖Λ is a Sidon set.