Example sentences of "have formed a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He has formed a close relationship with a woman during his six months in Bosnia and now wants to end his 19-year marriage , the Sun newspaper reported today .
2 Like several Scots teams , Killin has formed a close bond with airmen who crew the two Wessex helicopters at Leuchars .
3 He is still one of the most deadly aerial players in front of goal and has formed a good combination with Robert Fleck .
4 He has formed a joint venture with an English firm , Period Homes Partnership of Crediton , Devon , which aims to marry the best of British exterior design with the more creative use of internal space achieved by American home designers .
5 Air Products has formed a joint venture with Union High Polymer for the manufacture of emulsion polymers in the Republic of Korea .
6 Telekom Malaysia Bhd , Kuala Lumpur has formed a joint venture with state railway company Keretapi Tanah Melayu Bhd to install an optical fibre telecommunication system along the railway corridor in Peninsular Malaysia : the project will be handled by a joint venture company , Fiberail Sdn Bhd , in which Telekom owns 60% , the railway 40% .
7 Silicon Graphics Inc is getting into the fun-and-games end of the business in a big way and has formed a joint venture with Industrial Light & Magic , a division of George Lucas 's Lucas Digital Ltd special effects production company : the new venture will create digital imagery for the entertainment industry .
8 Siemens AG has formed a joint venture with the city of Shanghai and the Chinese Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications to produce digital mobile phones and base stations : it aims to make 300,000 phones and 500 base stations each year .
9 The development of SVQs has formed a major part of our work in this sector over the last year .
10 East Hanover , New Jersey-based Ultimate Corp has formed a strategic alliance with Bell Atlantic Corp 's Bell Atlantic Network Integration , the aim being to combine the Bell Atlantic unit 's expertise in enterprisewide network integration with Ultimate 's experience in mainframe down-sizing , network monitoring and management , the companies declared .
11 This issue has formed a key element in the historical debate over the idea of higher education .
12 Thatcher ) , who has succeeded in abandoning her resistance to German blandishments and has formed a common front with Chancellor Kohl in demanding the immediate and unconditional recognition of Croatia .
13 Turnbull admitted it has formed a large part of forwards ' practice where the pack try to shift as many as 16 others , which concentrates the mind wonderfully on body positions .
14 Yes , Yes , Yes : - ) I must have formed a mental block on the exact details due to the severe trauma involved !
15 From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House .
16 It 's from the Bible , actually , and it would have formed a small part of what I wanted to say to you this morning ; ‘ Do n't make friends with people who have hot , violent tempers .
17 In addition he has stressed the crankish nature of many of its supporters and the fact that it drew that support from only a very small section of the working class — even though they may have formed a significant proportion of the BUF 's small membership of between 5,000 and 40,000 members throughout the 1930s .
18 The restrictions of office life might have formed a permanent barrier to any expression of their feelings for each other , but their relationship had grown appreciably closer when they had both stayed for part of one summer at the home of a friend , Margaret Behrens , in Mentone — although even here Valerie Fletcher still called him " Mr Eliot " .
19 In retrospect , for example , many Gaullists concluded that he should have formed a Gaullist movement of the kind that he formed , too late , in 1947 — a movement that could have channelled popular adulation into usable political support .
20 Frost , like thickly appliquéd lace medallions , patterned the bedroom window , and water in a cup by the bedside had formed a solid block of ice .
21 Hobbes had formed a close friendship with Gassendi during his meetings with him in Paris , in the circle of scientists and philosophers which centred round Mersenne .
22 Steam from the water had clouded the mirrors in the bathroom ; condensation had formed a dewy veil over the tiles .
23 At one time Dalgety was up 16p as Elf Aquitaine , the French oil group , confirmed it had formed a joint company with Australian Robert Holmes a Court to hold a 5.5 per cent stake in the Dalgety agricultural and food group .
24 HAVING BEEN a close follower of The Lone Groover and loon pant ads in the NME of the '70s , I had formed a lasting impression of The World 's Greatest Rock Weekly as an impenetrable fortress of wit , intellect and sneering clever-gits .
25 However , reports in October claimed that up to 1,300 Army officers had formed a secret group in support of the former CCP general secretary Zhao Ziyang and in opposition to the Yang brothers .
26 China had formed a Leading Group on Intellectual Property , headed by State Councillor Song Jian , and on Oct. 20 , the China Daily reported that China would join the Berne Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention before the end of 1992 [ see also pp. 38339-40 ] .
27 As a frequent visitor to Scotland I have formed a great admiration for the Scottish farmer 's skills , particularly in animal husbandry and the attention that he pays to the production of a crop of whose product I am a not infrequent consumer .
28 Now paired with the joker-in-chief , Palmer said : ‘ We have formed a great relationship off the pitch .
29 The British Foreign Secretary , Palmerston , wrote in a despatch of December 1833 that there could be " No reasonable doubt … [ but ] that the Russian Govt. is intently engaged in the prosecution of those schemes of aggrandizement toward the South which , ever since the Reign of Catherine , have formed a prominent feature of Russian policy " .
30 It would be unfair to say that I have formed a low view of the Foreign Office ; rather I have formed the view that Foreign Office activities have in some way become totally disconnected from the human race .
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