Example sentences of "in their [adj] form " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laws of war emerged in their modern form from the last part of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | The personal social services in their modern form developed from the late 1940s . |
| 3 | In an interview on Danish radio , the former liberal minister of finance said that , although the proposals in their current form had ‘ improved a lot ’ since the commission started discussing Mr MacSharry 's plan three months ago , they still presented a danger of destroying farming as a professionally run industry . |
| 4 | Education business partnerships , though recent in their current form , have antecedents which it would be foolish to ignore . |
| 5 | He calls them a blueprint for disaster in their current form and wants them amended . |
| 6 | Some resisted outright and a few , Kingston upon Thames for example , remained in their pre-1965 form more than 20 years after the Crosland circular . |
| 7 | It is also possible that two of these constituents in their liquid form substitute for water as a suspension medium for organic compounds . |
| 8 | For anyone involved in the game at the grass-roots level , the divisions books are invaluable — they give a pretty comprehensive run-down of every club in the country by division — and only cost £3.50 in their revised form , £9.99 for the National Leagues book . |
| 9 | Finally , HCO 3 - secretion may result not from direct activation of acid-base transport systems but from movement of weak acids in their protonated form in the opposite direction , that is from lumen to cell . |
| 10 | It is important to remember that in their negative form ( i.e. combined with ‘ not ’ ) they never have the weak pronunciation , and some ( e.g. ‘ do n't ’ , ‘ ca n't ’ ) have different vowels from their non-negative strong forms . |
| 11 | In their pure form they have neither corporate nor competitive strategies as defined above . |
| 12 | Deeply though a great deal of crime fiction today is rooted in the blueprint detective story , there is now only a small public for such books in their pure form and , I think , there are not so many writers who want to produce them . |
| 13 | In an ASCII format , documents are displayed in their lowest form on screen and ca n't easily be read . |
| 14 | Work out the following giving your answers in their lowest form . |
| 15 | The point that the author makes with this particular spelling would be lost if the words were reproduced in their standard form . |
| 16 | Primary sources also exist in their traditional form , and they are , inevitably , the crucial material in the investigation of many diplomatic or political questions . |
| 17 | Thus in many African " marriage " institutions , in their traditional form , the husband and his kin made substantial payments in cattle to the male kin of the bride . |
| 18 | Indeed , for all but those organisations which know precisely how much additional manpower they need and for how long , in their simple form they are a particularly unsuitable means of employing temporary workers . |
| 19 | Even the family allowances , though based in their present form upon the experience and conditions of the inter-war years — when Seebohm Rowntree 's surveys in York suggested that one male in four earned less than was necessary to maintain a man , wife and two children above the poverty line — consist of a simple system of payments and enter into budgetary habits and expectations no more and no less than the fiscal allowances , of which I once suggested to a CPC conference they might be regarded as an extension . |
| 20 | I now turn to traits which seem not to contribute to the fitness of the individual even in their present form . |
| 21 | Nevertheless it seems to me that this is a time when we have a chance to examine the utility of A levels in their present form , a chance that may have been missed by the terms of reference of the Higginson Committee . |
| 22 | They argue that a continuation of Green Belt restrictions in their present form will turn the countryside into a ghetto for rich commuters while local people pay for this rural idyll in homelessness and unemployment . |
| 23 | This tendency must inevitably cast doubt on the probability of any of the great religions , in their present form , ever being of really beneficial service to all humanity . |
| 24 | Coopers & Lybrand does not believe that the ED 's proposals ‘ should be issued either in the short term or in their present form ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Without Urban Programme funding it is unlikely that these schemes would have been undertaken in their present form , especially those requiring capital funding . |
| 26 | They pre-date modern income taxes and have developed in their present form since the Poor Relief Act 1601 ( Foster et al . |
| 27 | Existing species were not created in their present form at the beginning of life on this planet . |
| 28 | The issues raised are fundamental , casting doubt on the continued existence of member states in their present form . |
| 29 | Although the complex is situated in unit one , its alignment relates to unit two , and thus the earthworks in their present form ( but not necessarily the house they enclose ) should date from the same period as unit two . |
| 30 | I am doing my utmost to persuade my colleagues in the Council of Ministers that it would make no sense , for the European Community as well as this country , if the directives were promulgated in their present form . |