Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [conj] form " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pressure from Bruce Millan , EC regional commissioner , has resulted in the Treasury reluctantly accepting that the funds provided by Brussels are additional to government spending rather than part of it and should be steered to specific projects rather than forming part of the spending pool . |
| 2 | It is true that the cases of indirect wording and external interpretation considered earlier are cases in which the validity of a disposition rests on intention rather than form . |
| 3 | If you can aim squarely , hold the club correctly and form a good stance , then you give yourself the best chance to strike the ball correctly . |
| 4 | The major national breweries themselves began to either acquire or be acquired by non-brewing companies so as to form larger conglomerates such as Allied-Lyons ( formed when Allied Breweries took over the catering group J. Lyons in 1978 ) , Grand Metropolitan ( formed when Grand Met Hotels took over Truman Hanbury and Buxton in 1971 and Watney Mann in 1972 ) and Imperial ( formed when Imperial Tobacco acquired Courage Breweries in 1972 ) . |
| 5 | It may be generally true that the natural language use which constitutes the goal of learning is realized by a focus on meaning rather than form , and is a matter of top-down rather than bottom-up processing , but the process of arriving at that goal , the development of the authenticating ability , calls for an effective internalization of form and capability of analysis which will allow for their use across a wide and unpredictable range of different contexts . |
| 6 | SE ( Bornstein et al. , 1975 ) attempts to get round some of these problems by attempting to parallel meaning rather than form . |
| 7 | It is expected that a draft of the proposed Railway Clearing House submission will have been completed prior to the meeting so as to form a basis for discussion . |
| 8 | You know they joined it right at the beginning , they , they 're the ones where the momentum 's come from erm they 're the ones asking the rich peasants to join them , the middle peasants and they 're the ones leading the revolution , th they are the riff-raff if you , you know , want to take one view erm they have n't got anything to lose because of their position er er er er as erm a rich peasant may say , you know , what is there to keep me from joining yo you people have neither tile over your heads nor speck of land under your feet , and it 's true they have got nothing to lose but these are the ones that are pushing the ideas forward and forming the associations . |
| 9 | From the early 1920s Chiang devoted much of his attention to suppressing his communist rivals rather than forming a united front with them to resist the Japanese , but they established a strong base in the northwest following the Long March of 1934 . |
| 10 | Later , as the sac-like evagination develops , the bases of the epithelial cells become drawn out into long processes , so imparting a spongy texture to the tissues of the wing-pad , and the basement membranes of the lower and upper epithelia become apposed for most of their area so as to form the so-called middle membrane ( Fig. 30 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ … the main idea is that social phenomena are seen as existing in relation to each other , and continually developing in and through such relations so as to form at various phases contradictory forces that generate qualitatively new formations . |
| 12 | A , it 's part of , it 's linked to the fact that erm , the Council 's quite erm concerned to get , you know , community groups active in the town and responding to things as well as just the Council , Council Officer 's , but it 's also linked to the fact that we as Council Officer 's ca n't be overtly political , it 's far to say , and you know , what happens is groups get set up to resist things like last year when the hospital lost the fifty million pounds , there 's enough people on it now to say that it 's you people here that formed the bulk of thos e groups . |
| 13 | Catch him in Birmingham tonight and form your own judgment on the supposed heir to Bevan , Foot and Kinnock . |
| 14 | Other features derived from blues are the use of a rift ( the two-note idea which starts the song off and forms the basis of the refrain ) , the use of call-and-response ( between vocal and guitar ) , and the instrumental styles , especially that of the guitar . |
| 15 | It is not a vicious animal compared to most snakes and will avoid contact with humans rather than form a confrontation ; although it is very lively and alert . |
| 16 | A statement forms part of the res gestae of a case if it is made contemporaneously with or shortly after any act or occurrence in issue in the proceedings so as to form part of the same transaction . |
| 17 | The best argument for the statue being a fixture was its careful siting in the West Lawn so as to form an integral part of the architectural design of the west elevation of the house . |
| 18 | But given that they can have their position specified , and can interpret this position so as to form the pattern , then this provides a very powerful means of generating patterns . |
| 19 | Firstly , gas is lighter than air and leakages dissipate in the atmosphere rather than forming a local hazard . |
| 20 | Two booklets said that the president of the USA was a Communist and suggested that I should ‘ … buy a gun now and form a secret minuteman team ’ . |