Example sentences of "forms of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 24 hours later extracts were prepared and the acetylated forms of chloramphenicol separated by thin layer chromatography .
2 Before discussing possible explanations of football hooliganism , it is necessary to clarify the different forms of behaviour incorporated within this term , where these activities typically occur , and what kinds of people most commonly engage in them .
3 It is possible to attempt to justify poor practice by claiming that it 's response to parents wishes : silent classrooms brought about by severe discipline , numerous paper exercises completed to provide evidence of industry and antiquated forms of behaviour paraded as good manners are just some examples .
4 And I think that the argument has been that on the whole discipline the use of discipline simply to punish drinking is n't going to be appropriate , although there may be forms of behaviour produced by excessive drinking that it 's appropriate to act against .
5 There are two forms of inequality related to occupational pensions which also serve to disadvantage very elderly women , especially widows .
6 By offering better wages in Israel it placed an obstacle in the way of local industry , which did not benefit from subsidies or other forms of assistance enjoyed by Israeli industry .
7 Indigenous working-class cultures of racism have thus been internally fragmented by strong sexual and generational divisions , as well as being externally mirrored in the forms of resistance mobilized by immigrant communities against them .
8 Natural selection merely justified the marginalization of primitive races by the later forms of humanity developed by some inherently progressive force .
9 This can be illustrated from a wide variety of cases : the uses of literacy for social control in nineteenth century Canada , for instance , where any ‘ critical ’ element was carefully excluded ( Graff , 1979 ) ; the restriction of the content of written forms to religious tracts by the Methodist missionaries who introduced literacy to Fiji in the nineteenth century ( Clammer , 1976 ) ; the examples from British literacy campaigns that show how illiteracy developed in schools because of the class-based nature of schooling ( Mace , 1979 ) ; the uses of literacy for religious and symbolic purposes in Ghana ( Goody , 1968 ) ; the greater trust placed by thirteenth century knights in England on seals and symbols as means of legitimating charters and rights to land and their suspicion of the written document as more likely to be forged and inaccurate ( Clanchy , 1979 ) ; the development in Iranian villages of forms of literacy taught in Koranic schools into forms of literacy appropriate for commercial trading in a rapidly modernising and urbanising economy ( Section 2 ) .
10 The forms of protection described in 4.9.2 and 4.9.3 are valid where horizontal barriers ( shelves ) or vertical barriers ( bulk-heads ) are not present .
11 Blackall rejected the Filmerian claim that only absolute monarchy was legitimate , and acknowledged that God had allowed different forms of government to develop in different places at different times .
12 Or are we simply being made aware of the interrelatedness of life and the fact that when one form of life suffers other forms of life suffer in some degree ?
13 The Maastricht Treaty has the stated aim of creating a ‘ European Union , founded on the European Communities ‘ supplemented by the policies and forms of cooperation established by this Treaty ’ .
14 These experience-centred procedures echo forms of organization used in other resistances ; Rowbotham ( 1973 ) notes their connections with libertarian socialism , for example .
15 Such forms of control suffer from many of the problems already detailed , particularly lack of specialist expertise .
16 What is more , current social work and health policy seeks to move away from institutionalized forms of care provided by elderly persons ' homes and hospitals , concentrating instead on maintaining ageing people within their own homes .
17 The two basic forms of irony found in these tales are verbal irony and dramatic irony .
18 The feeling persists that sport is still of peripheral concern when the parties make their manifesto pledges ; that in the struggle with the arts for the hearts , minds ( and pockets ) of politicians , it comes a poor second , but that government is more than happy to accept the millions of pounds in various forms of tax generated by this ‘ art of the masses ’ .
19 More recently , however , some American authors have argued that there is a case for separate forms of tax linked to particular purposes .
20 They tended to be built round ministers who disliked the slowly developing penchant for what were called ‘ liturgical ’ forms of worship associated with Gothic chapels .
21 Again , these misconceptions are important , because the ‘ common origin' idea is the basis for some forms of therapy used with chemical sensitive patients .
22 His analysis emphasises that , as with the other forms of disorder considered in this book , soccer spectator disorder requires a conjunctural explanation .
23 We must nevertheless be cautious in assuming that the changing forms of association identified by these authors are simply products of their romanticising imaginations .
24 Consequently the forms of paternalism signified by feudal relations are more likely to be a recent tradition rather than a distant memory .
25 However , X-ray analysis has shown that all these forms of carbon consist of small graphite-like crystals .
26 It is more likely that what connects creativity to madness is some aspect of the thought styles which psychotic and original forms of thinking have in common and which , in the psychiatric domain , can be observed across the arbitrary diagnostic categories of psychosis .
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