Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] form of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most usual form of enforcement is the issue of a writ of fieri facias ( fi . |
| 2 | The appearance of MPG Note 3 in 1988 sought to strengthen this approach , pushing resolution of the inherent conflict between opencasting and the environment in favour of this most destructive form of development . |
| 3 | As a doctor , Brian realised that his wife 's mother had evidently suffered from the most acute form of agoraphobia . |
| 4 | There is in these travel journals a movement towards the recognition that the most acute form of nostalgia is that which , in evoking the past as lost fullness , then faces it with the knowledge that the restless incompleteness felt so acutely now , in the present , was also a part of the imaginary fullness then ; the truthfulness which aims to allay nostalgia only intensifies it . |
| 5 | The most widely used form of treatment is the bell and pad . |
| 6 | The condom is the most widely used form of contraception ( 41% ) , the pill is used by the partner of 31% of our sample , while such devices as the coil and diaphragm appear to have lost whatever popularity they once enjoyed . |
| 7 | b Day patients and outpatients were not included in the calculation although this may be the most cost-effective form of treatment . |
| 8 | Until recently we have pursued an expansionary policy , investing through the recession and financing our investment by borrowing — for BP the most cost-effective form of funding . |
| 9 | The blue-greens , therefore , flourish uncropped just as they did when they were the most advanced form of life anywhere in the world . |
| 10 | Radio 1 was the most complete form of specialization on a radio station and the last before the BBC accepted that the Reith/Haley commitment to ‘ mixed ’ programming on each station simply did not correspond to listening preferences . |
| 11 | In 1766 she arrived in London to become one of the leading figures in the art world of London , not only proving remarkably successful as a portrait painter , but winning high esteem in the most prestigious form of painting — history painting , namely large-scale compositions based on historical and mythological subjects which provided a lesson in heroism , tragedy or morality . |
| 12 | It has increasingly displaced common law as the most extensive form of law in Britain and it is the most definitive of the four . |
| 13 | This , Lukes argued , is the most insidious form of power in that we can be manipulated into a course of action or believing in a set of values without realising it . |
| 14 | To be a Foodie , to be recognized by other Foodies as such — that is the most succulent form of bliss . |
| 15 | Touch is the earliest and most primitive form of communication and is an important form of non-verbal communication throughout life ; it can convey a myriad of positive and negative messages between people . |
| 16 | He argued that matter and spirit were manifestations of a single underlying substance — which meant that even the most primitive form of life had some spiritual qualities . |
| 17 | I shall argue that the attractions of foundationalism , whatever they may be , do not derive from the theory of meaning which underlies it ; in fact , the most acceptable form of theory of meaning is noticeably lacking in the features characteristic of foundationalism , and supports instead an alternative epistemology , coherentism . |
| 18 | Intra-medium decisions — where to put the ads within a chosen medium or media group — allow for a rather different form of judgement , and have available rather more coherent research standards . |
| 19 | There are also several poison arrow frogs of South America that show a rather different form of cannibalism . |
| 20 | Tampering with the seam is much the most harmful form of ball vandalism . |
| 21 | It drives us directly from foundationalism ( for it was in foundationalist terms that the argument was formulated ) to the most interesting form of solipsism , the view that you must take yourself to be the only subject of experience — in fact the subject of experience — since you can have no conception of another such . |
| 22 | Television augmented and soon overtook the cinema as the masses ' most popular form of entertainment . |
| 23 | The most popular form of insurance — burial insurance — was , however , almost universal . |
| 24 | AA 5 Star service is the most popular form of cover chosen by the motorist taking his car abroad . |
| 25 | The most popular form of payment is cash . |
| 26 | Since the introduction of the duvet to this country in the early 1970's , the duvet has become the most popular form of bedwear . |
| 27 | Photographs : are certainly the most popular form of illustration but , as yet , desktop publishing systems can not handle them very well . |
| 28 | MORE than one in three adults fill out coupons in the most popular form of gambling . |
| 29 | Before oil prices increased the most popular form of heating was a paraffin stove despite the smell and danger . |
| 30 | And they while they reckon condoms , by far the most popular form of contraception for teenagers , are sensible they are victims of their own self-consciousness because they are too afraid to buy them . |