Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] form a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oil had leaked in and formed a rainbow sheen on the surface . |
| 2 | It 's just a question of finding the right people to bring in and form a fashion-design group . |
| 3 | Another door , covering the bars of the fire , could be let down and formed a useful ledge . |
| 4 | The Conservatives may have tried to go it alone and form a minority government , but some kind of party-splitting coalition government could well have been more likely . |
| 5 | If a student is to study a number of different subjects or courses , what guarantee is there that they will all come together and form a coherent whole ? |
| 6 | It certainly is a trial — a trial in living together and forming a partnership . |
| 7 | The gravel tidy prevents the two media from mixing together and forming a tightly packed , ineffectual filter . |
| 8 | This great structure , which forms the frontier between Europe and Asia , shows two continents coming together and forming a new super-continent . |
| 9 | A number of businessmen living on the North Wales coast , travelling to and from Manchester daily , joined together and formed a club . |
| 10 | His podgy , clean-nailed fingers locked together and formed a vaulted shrine over the few pages of notes that contained my Mother 's life . |
| 11 | Mix until the mixture pulls together and forms a ball . |
| 12 | We hope that you will build upon these so as to form a continuing association with your University . |
| 13 | Then great standing stones brought to mark the way at intervals , and on a bank leading up to a mountain ridge or down to a ford the track cut deep so as to form a guiding notch on the skyline as you come up . |
| 14 | The edges of adjacent planks were not fastened together mechanically but stood open so as to form a V-shaped groove . |
| 15 | If you are in doubt , keeping the puppy on your left side , and facing forwards , loop one end of the chain through the other , so as to form a circle . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He describes his own ( very Darwinian ! ) experiment in which he allowed the stolons of Saxifraga sarmentosa ( a classic ‘ guerrilla ’ growth form ) to encounter an artificial vegetation that he had constructed : ‘ Many long pins were next driven rather close together into the sand , so as to form a crowd in front of … two thin lateral branches ; but these easily wound their way through the crowd . |
| 18 | It therefore becomes imperative that the scriptures be interpreted so as to form a consistent whole . |
| 19 | The lateral sclerites usually comprise two plates on either side , closely hinged together so as to form a fulcrum between the head and prothorax . |
| 20 | Immediately underneath the stone lay a cist containing several rude cinerary urns , and alongside of it were found a gold fibula and an armilla of a peculiar type made from a broad band of gold beaten out so as to form a convex centre , on each side of which was a fluted ornamental border , and a raised rim returned at the edge . " |
| 21 | Narrowly dyadic relationships of this kind show no tendency to proliferate outwards so as to form a wider network , and , since they are usually short-lived , anthropologists have not often given them much attention . |
| 22 | They considered that a building or product can not be regarded as a complex structure if it has been wholly constructed or manufactured by one person , so as to form a single indivisible unit . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At first they seemed so close together as to form an impassable barrier , but as they drew nearer it became clear that they were several yards apart . |
| 25 | At the same time , the principle of excluding the Jews from German society was itself widely and increasingly popular , and Hitler 's hatred of the Jews — baleful in its threats but linked to the condoning of lawful , ‘ rational ’ action , not the unpopular crude violence and brutality of the Party 's ‘ gutter ’ elements — was certainly an acceptable component of his popular image , even if it was an element ‘ taken on board ’ rather than forming a centrally motivating factor for most Germans . |
| 26 | Yet rather than forming a point between structure and agency , perhaps the role of community groups could be better represented in terms of a continuum between civil society and the state . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But it also shows the alternative way , with independent countries trading and co-operating , rather than forming a European super-state . |
| 29 | Firstly , gas is lighter than air and leakages dissipate in the atmosphere rather than forming a local hazard . |
| 30 | 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 . |