Example sentences of "[adv prt] to form a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sand had been shipped in to form a deeper and wider beach , to accommodate up to two hundred people . |
| 2 | Tip in the rubble or ballast and tamp down to form a firm base , leaving sufficient depth for mortar and slabs |
| 3 | A shaped metal guard flips down to form a complete protective circle around the cord , useful around trees |
| 4 | And now , in these last few days , he had watched its golden leaves fluttering down to form a glowing carpet at its foot , as the autumn winds tossed the great boughs this way and that . |
| 5 | In Fig. 9.4 the original floodplain of the river is represented by the terrace A , while , after one rejuvenation , a second terrace B was formed into which the river is again cutting down to form a third terrace C. Each terrace disappears upstream at the point to which the head of rejuvenation has receded : this can be more readily appreciated from a section down the valley ( Fig. 9.5 ) . |
| 6 | All that is required now is for each tip to be lifted in turn from the worktop , and the strong tape folded over to form a complete pocket at each corner . |
| 7 | Those members of the Nikola Petkov Bulgarian National Agrarian Union ( BZNS ) who had remained in the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) after part of the BZNS split off to form a separate party before the October 1991 elections [ see p. 38539 ] now set up their own separate BZNS within the UDF . |
| 8 | Nationalisation saw the basic pattern retained , although the Scottish elements of the London Midland & Scottish and the London & North Eastern Railways were hived off to form a Scottish Region , and the North East based on York also became a separate region . |
| 9 | The first multiparty general election since 1959 was held on May 12 , 1991 , and resulted in a victory for the Nepali Congress Party which went on to form a new government under Girija Prasad Koirala . |
| 10 | Creating your own designs on the screen does not actually involve any drawing because it is done by plotting a series of points or co-ordinates , which the computer automatically joins up to form a two dimensional shape it is a bit like joining the dots in a dot to dot picture , except that you have to decide where the dots will go and the computer does the joining up ! |
| 11 | The floaty , translucent , viscose jacket costs £195 ; the gathered skirt , with its lycra waistband which can be rolled up to form a strapless dress , is £169 , and the long overtop costs £105 . |
| 12 | Around the volcanic vent itself , a jumbled mass of highly irregular pumice fragments , most of them very large , piles up to form a conical heap round the vent . |
| 13 | The finished string of a few hundred amino acids will , in a suitable liquid medium at a suitable temperature , fold up to form a three-dimensional globular structure , the active protein . |
| 14 | Proteins are strings of 20 kinds of amino acids , which usually fold up to form a large globular molecule . |
| 15 | When the string folds up to form a globular structure , however , the bonds are not covalent , and the resulting structure is flexible . |
| 16 | If the flow rate should increase for any reason , the lava may burst out over the levees , flooding out to form a new branch of the main flow , and this ‘ break out ’ will itself rapidly become established between levees . |
| 17 | Clearly working under the pressure of the speed of events in central Europe , the West Europeans have decided to go all out to form a united economic bloc , if possible by the end of next year , but at all costs by January 1992 when the EC internal market is due to be completed . |
| 18 | If you run It backward you will see the pieces suddenly gather themselves together off the floor and jump back to form a whole cup on the table . |
| 19 | German companies rallied round to form a holding company just to buy Daimler shares . |
| 20 | A child may be able to count the five ducks but have to recount if they are moved round to form a different pattern . |