Example sentences of "[prep] its [adj] form " in BNC.
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1 | What there was in Genesis was a clear statement concerning the Creator Spirit hovering over the waters , and this provided the model for Van Helmont 's conception of matter , with water as its primary form . |
2 | The Community long ago adopted VAT as its standard form of indirect tax . |
3 | Unilever , the Anglo-Dutch multinational company , has standardised on Lotus Development Corp 's Lotus Notes software as its company-wide form for computer conferencing : Lotus will now have up to 30,000 Unilever Lotus Notes users worldwide . |
4 | Thus , for example , a matrix of order 6 having three equal eigenvalues{ ga } , two equal eigenvalues{ gb } , and an unrepeated eigenvalue{ gg } , would have as its canonical form unc where each x may be zero or unity ; it occurs only within the submatrices containing groups of equal eigenvalues . |
5 | My aim will be to illustrate different ways of approaching literature through its linguistic form , ways involving the direct application of linguistic theory and linguistic methods of analysis in order to illuminate the specifically literary character of texts . |
6 | Empson 's work thus comes close to the theories discussed in the last chapter , which approach the literary text through its linguistic form ; it differs from most of these , however , in being less systematic and theoretical , and in particular in being less influenced by developments in modern linguistics . |
7 | What is problematic about this is the common assumption that it is caused by , and in turn indicates , some relationship of efficiency between the object and its use , such that this is the prime reason for its particular form , being either the natural outcome of adaptation , or the product of deliberate design processes for industrial goods . |
8 | The novel is mainly devoted to exploring the implications of these propositions for its own form . |
9 | The alternative distribution programme on a plane , the spiral , requires a minimum of five events for its spiral form to become evident . |
10 | This process produced the unit ā more about its possible form of publication is given in Chapter 6 . |
11 | Our concerns go far beyond those that we anticipated in our debates on the Gracious Speech , which took place before we had sight of the text of the Bill although even at that stage we had our fears about its final form . |
12 | Most notable is the observation that the reliance on subjects to express the actual curriculum can be seen as a rationalisation of its present form . |
13 | It has been extensively restored but retains much of its original form ( 273 and 384 ) . |
14 | He would be unwise to underestimate the disruptive potential of its particular form of divine discontent . |
15 | Moreover , the functions it took on within the capital ā including the setting up of an armed militia , the publication of an uncensored newspaper , the imposition via the printers ' union of its own form of censorship , and above all the coordination of strike action ā gave it the appearance of rivalling the authority of the government itself . |
16 | Despite its rhetorical form , the question seemed to have real meaning . |
17 | In this size there can be little double that this is Victorian parasol handle , despite its right-angled form . |
18 | In short , New York is stuck with a tax base that looks too narrow to support the city 's budget in anything like its present form . |
19 | There are two reasons : firstly , in the summer of 1990 major work started on the church which could restore it to something like its original form ; this would make it interesting , because pilgrim churches are rare . |
20 | It is then developed in seven statements to a climactic definition of the nature of the fire of love ; they are brought to a triumphant conclusion by juxtaposing a negative statement with its positive form to indicate ways in which the third degree of singular love fulfils and transcends the longing of the earlier stages : The phrase from The Song of Songs ( 5:2 ) which heralds the arrival of the beloved , here conveys a sense of a transformed newly awakened consciousness where longing and the unquiet ego are quenched . |
21 | Over several decades he brought a level of energy , commitment and enthusiasm to athletics which helped transform the sport into its modern form . |
22 | The Longfin Anthias , Pseudanthias ventralis , is only about 7cm long at maturity , but packs a tremendous amount of beauty into its tiny form . |
23 | During evolution it could have been modified into its present form . |
24 | This consolidates the document into its current form and throws out all the previous rubbish . |
25 | This is the first step in the conversion of acyclovir into its anti-viral form . |
26 | A digital to analogue ( DāA ) converter then turns the signal back into its original form . |
27 | Masefield 's extreme selectiveness in the choice of words turns description into its own form of narrative , reflecting the responses of the characters to immediate circumstances but also giving individual life to those circumstances . |
28 | A pub is branching out into its own form of Sunday trading , and grabbing its customers while they 're young . |
29 | In the Council Hall the new draft was subjected to such criticism that it was returned to the Commission to be revised into its earlier form . |
30 | The attitude that the United Kingdom Government will take to that directive will depend upon its final form . |