Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] form [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They offer a convenient , secure and widely accepted form of payment at more than 7 million outlets in the UK and overseas , displaying the Access , MasterCard and Eurocard symbols . |
| 2 | We are looking at the training arrangements and are anxious to ensure that our future forces receive the best and most relevant forms of training in the most efficient and cost-effective way . |
| 3 | This is in practice the most important and most powerful form of control , |
| 4 | One of the purest and most potent forms of skincare today |
| 5 | Touch is the earliest and most primitive form of communication and is an important form of non-verbal communication throughout life ; it can convey a myriad of positive and negative messages between people . |
| 6 | That 's the way many people describe their sciatica — one of the commonest and most debilitating forms of neuralgia . |
| 7 | However , sending a letter to a large sample of people can be quite a costly business , not only in stationery and postage , but also in finding out the recipients ' correct names and addresses , if one is to avoid the very impersonal and rather off-putting form of address , ‘ The Occupant ’ . |
| 8 | The most complex and highly evolved forms of colonialism in the insect world are those created by the relations of the wasps and bees , the ants . |
| 9 | Thus on balance marginal and less protected forms of employment have not grown at any marked rate in the market capitalism phase that Lane distinguishes . |
| 10 | The Children Act 1989 will replace care orders in truancy cases with ‘ education supervision orders ’ , likely to be seen as a more constructive and less punitive form of order ( see below ) . |
| 11 | Together , these studies suggest that although individuals with the less active form of ALDH and more active forms of ADH are less likely to become alcoholic , they have a greater risk of developing alcoholic liver disease if they do drink than people with the normal form of ALDH and less active forms of ADH . |
| 12 | Whilst paying lip service to the sporting values of the public schools , suburban man was busy with less physically and morally taxing forms of exercise . |
| 13 | More recently , studies of modern objects by archaeologists working in the sub-discipline of ethno-archaeology have sought to provide ‘ general and testable ’ laws of stylistic behaviour , strongly influenced by an extreme and exquisitely inappropriate form of positivism which took hold of the discipline in the 1960s , and appears to have been retained long after most other social sciences threw off its shackles ( e.g. Binford 1972 ; 1978 ; Gould and Schiffer eds 1981 , see Hodder 1982a and b for a critique ) . |
| 14 | This vast geographical area — stretching from China to the Balkans and from India to the northern tip of the Caspian Sea — is inhabited by peoples of infinitely diverse cultural , religious and ethnic origins , whose only common feature ( apart from occupying territories along the old silk route to the East ) seems to be their desire and ability to elevate rug-making from a functional craft to an expressive and deeply satisfying form of art . |
| 15 | Most employees in this country are now reasonably certain of their supply of food , drink and shelter , and more subtle forms of comfort have become important goals . |
| 16 | And more extensive forms of record-keeping are required in order to build up fashionable supplements to GCSE such as profiles , and records or certificates of achievement . |
| 17 | Featuring ancient and more modern forms of railway traction , many of the working exhibits were once common around the Taunton railway scene . |
| 18 | It can afford motivation as hardly anything else can , and its influence can help both society and individuals to a fuller and more satisfying form of life . |
| 19 | The other argument says that we are a higher and more socialised form of beast and that our urges are informed by something more subtle than base instinct . |
| 20 | First , the use of IT is growing rapidly and potentially has great scope in improving the technical efficiency of services and more personalised forms of delivery . |
| 21 | The joint stock company , the characteristic device for the mobilization of capital , became more and more the usual pattern of business organization and the freely transferable share a more and more common form of property . |
| 22 | Importantly , speedier and more sophisticated forms of transport and electronic communications make it increasingly possible for these two forms of work to be in contact despite their physical separation or ‘ stretching ’ over time and space . |
| 23 | The eroticisation of this relationship is a familiar trope , not only in art criticism but also in other and more popular forms of writing and visual culture . |
| 24 | There has been no point in British history at which the prevailing method of government has been completely swept away , allowing those in power to sit down and create from first principles a new and clearly delineated form of government . |
| 25 | Indeed , some writers have suggested that the development of cheap , fairly reliable and fairly safe forms of contraception , together with the liberalization of the laws on abortion , have been among the most important gains to women in recent decades . |
| 26 | We have to confess that Evangelicalism has sometimes , perhaps even often , expressed itself in a hard , legalistic framework leading to a dull and often joyless form of Christianity . |
| 27 | They , too , have an interest in sustaining levels of welfare spending ( and even existing forms of delivery ) , possibly to a greater extent than local consumers of services . |
| 28 | It 's quite commonly said that twenty years ago the universities and colleges decided to treat students as adults and leave them to organise their own affairs erm and the argument about what to do in this area is n't an argument about whether it 's a serious problem , but about what are appropriate and even effective forms of intervention . |
| 29 | But coinage has , until recently , been the most common and frequently used form of money because it is so convenient , portable and durable . |
| 30 | The Greeks regarded rational discussion as the lowest and least reliable form of theology : the true theologian saw and experienced the content of his theology , which was inseparable from contemplation . |