Example sentences of "formed the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most respected of our club members , on our committee of management , Pavel Pavlovich Gaganov , an elderly man ad highly esteemed , had formed the innocent habit of following anything he had to say with the vehement addition , ‘ No , sir , you ca n't lead me by the nose ! ’ |
| 2 | The Ogadeni tribe , once the backbone of his army , has deserted him : its members have formed the Somali Patriotic Movement . |
| 3 | Ramsey had formed the view that a bishop is an apostolic teacher . |
| 4 | It may well be the case that an egregious idiocy has formed the basis of a political tradition — examples of this are plentiful — but ridiculing an historical phenomenon does not explain it . |
| 5 | It is in this context that Marx and Engels finally turn the tables on the ideas of philosophers who , like Hegel , had argued about the primacy of ideas , especially the idea of the State , as though these ideas had formed the processes of history rather than the other way round . |
| 6 | Finally , the difference in the nature of slavery and wage labour which Marx and Engels discussed in many places has formed the basis of all recent discussion on the subject . |
| 7 | Thus the family , neighbourhood , or work-place groups of older and younger men and a sprinkling of women , which seem to have formed the basic unit of attendance between the wars and before , broke up . |
| 8 | He had been involved with Buddhism to the point of almost becoming a monk , and had formed the mixed media troupe called Feathers , after studying mime under Lindsay Kemp . |
| 9 | Since things returned to normal , he and Gordon Greenidge have formed the most prolific opening partnership Test cricket has known ; before the series they had opened the innings over 120 times , about twice as many as any other Test first-wicket partnership , although they had produced only thirteen century partnerships . |
| 10 | These proposals and many more formed the basis of legislation following the 1987 general election — as too did the model report from Dame Mary Warnock that I commissioned into human fertilization and embryology . |
| 11 | Brian Faulkner , having lost control of the Unionist Party , had formed the new Unionist Party of Northern Ireland which could only field two candidates and won less than three per cent of the poll . |
| 12 | But , despite initial successes in the eastern campaign , the military setbacks of the first winter in Russia marked the end of the ‘ sunny Hitler weather ’ — the run of the easy triumphs which had formed the corner-stone of the ‘ Führer myth ’ . |
| 13 | In Munich , the Stalingrad disaster prompted the group of students who , largely inspired by moral and religious idealism , had the previous year formed the ‘ White Rose ’ movement and circulated anti-Nazi leaflets in Munich University , to stage a suicidally brave public demonstration of their detestation for Hitler and Nazism in a defiant manifesto displayed all over the university buildings : |
| 14 | Older horses who do n't try and run away from bot-flies , usually have not had the use of shelter sheds when they were young , so have formed the habit of no longer attempting to evade these injurious insects . |
| 15 | Hours of daily practice on the firing range had formed the callus . |
| 16 | Through the three days of their charter , Gomez was the only one of the four Latinos with whom Trent had formed the slightest relationship . |
| 17 | Charles Luker then gave a speech of reminiscences stressing the need to be grateful for ‘ those who had formed the Club and those who had kept it going for its first 50 years ’ . |
| 18 | wolf suggests that it is this sector that provides the catalyst for rebellion and he shows how , in six major revolutions in the world , it is the middle peasantry who have formed the pivotal group for peasant action . |
| 19 | A consortium of eight nuclear organizations had also formed the Nuclear Electricity Information Group , a propagandist organization which began a hard sell for nuclear power . |
| 20 | The odd thing about this new lava plug is that it went straight up , like a piston in a cylinder , wearing on top a thick cap of mud and clay , which had originally been deposited in a crater lake and had formed the ground surface prior to all the upheaval . |
| 21 | Brown Owl , moving quickly , placed Brownie after Brownie in position , until she had formed the first human letter : — |
| 22 | Their reports have been published and have hitherto formed the basis of the Secretary of State 's proposals for the National Curriculum . |
| 23 | Teacher placement in industry have formed the backbone of the UBI activities since the project was set up in 1977 , but formal schemes date back to the early 1960s , with LEAs such as Leicestershire acting as pioneers in the field when the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) first piloted the three week Introduction to Industry Scheme for teachers . |
| 24 | Although there is no evidence that Horace Walpole ( who died on 2 March 1797 ) ever attended College meetings it is pleasant to think that he may have formed the undiscovered link between Lord Camden and the as yet unlocated Veterinary College . |
| 25 | By 1978 they had formed the International Crustal Research Drilling Group and a team of a dozen or so , along with graduate students and drillers , was at work in Iceland . |
| 26 | The peeling away of Upper House 's grubby skin has exposed dozens of small but fine details which have formed the basis for the workshop 's designs . |
| 27 | The citizens of Pisa by then had recently taken over its government from the archbishop — they had formed the commune of consuls in the early 1080s which was to be a model for innumerable cities in Tuscany and Lombardy and Umbria to follow in the next two generations , the characteristic Italian commune . |
| 28 | Having formed the habit of buying lots of fresh fruit and vegetables , fish , white meat and low fat alternatives to dairy products , we need to cook interesting and attractively presented dishes . |
| 29 | Once iron is formed the limit of fusion is reached — no further energy can be liberated from it . |
| 30 | You have formed the symbols and therefore you can change them . |