Example sentences of "as form a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 3DMENU is a simply but effective menuing system that 's ideal for organizing your disk collection as well as forming a friendly front-end to access all your programs .
2 Nevertheless , despite this work spanning almost half a century , it can be understood as forming a coherent and systematic theory .
3 But there is an additional condition : we should be able to see a prominent feature of style as forming a significant relationship with other features of style , in an artistically coherent pattern of choice .
4 This is advantageous in saving space on paper , where a sizeable percussion group is required , as well as forming a compact arrangement quickly grasped by the eye of the conductor .
5 According to general relativity , space and time together can be regarded as forming a four-dimensional space called space-time .
6 Priddle and Heywood ( 1980 ) regard antarctic lakes as forming an evolutionary series which has developed over the period of about 20 000 years since the ice-sheet was maximal ; this is in any case a convenient way of describing them .
7 It is significant that Queen Pu-abi herself was richly provided with the material , which featured in her head-dress hung around with gold-bound discs of lapis lazuli , as well as forming an important component of her choker and infilling the cloisonné decoration of her finger-ring .
8 It therefore becomes imperative that the scriptures be interpreted so as to form a consistent whole .
9 The edges of adjacent planks were not fastened together mechanically but stood open so as to form a V-shaped groove .
10 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 .
11 We hope that you will build upon these so as to form a continuing association with your University .
12 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 . "
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 connectives may be separate and distinct throughout the body as in Machilis and Corydalis , or in the thorax only as in the Orthoptera , Coleoptera and many Lepidopteran larvae , but usually they are so closely approximated as to form a single longitudinal cord .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 The four short barrels on each forward edge of the turret are smoke dischargers arranged in such a pattern as to form an instant smokescreen in front of the vehicle in an emergency
18 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 .
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