Example sentences of "[adv] a form [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here Goldmann is opening the question that is closed for Marx and Lukács ; is science merely a form of ideology ? |
| 2 | No doubt some bolt-protected routes have valuable qualities , but in general , particularly in the easier grades , they offer merely a form of fool 's gold . |
| 3 | It was Paine 's belief that England lacked a constitution , as he stated at p. 370 that ‘ the continual use of the word ‘ constitution ’ in the English parliament shows there is none and the whole is merely a form of government without a constitution , and constituting itself with what power it pleases ’ . |
| 4 | Or is fascism merely a form of totalitarianism ? |
| 5 | It is quite possible , then , that my employer fully expects me to respond to his bantering in a like manner , and considers my failure to do so a form of negligence . |
| 6 | I mean , it 's not a great , from a computing point of view , it 's not great having some erm you know vast faceless organisation which is going to make sure everything 's alright , because it means that when something goes wrong , it takes weeks and weeks and weeks to get it sorted out , because you have to fill in a form in triplicate , get it signed |
| 7 | Democracy is not always taken to signify only a form of government , or of choosing a government : it may be a term applied to a whole society . |
| 8 | A well-known publisher , Anthony Blond , writes ‘ The design and appearance of a general book matters but not too much : after all , printing is only a form of communication and rarely an end in itself . |
| 9 | The gain is in the emotion of love not in the greed of wanting some other person 's love which is only a form of acquisitiveness and immediately defiles love . |
| 10 | Just a form of jetty just a grating which is a form of jetty and we put a a derrick up on the end of it . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just a form of brain death ’ , said one lifer scornfully , and indeed for many men the repetitive , soul-destroying nature of much of the work would indeed seem only to add to the pains of imprisonment . |
| 12 | ( Note that the terms ‘ solution ’ and ‘ dissolution ’ are used widely in discussions of karst landforms , but this is just a form of shorthand since , as was discussed in Section 6.2.3.3 , limestone weathering involves complex chemical reactions . ) |
| 13 | Then , as time went on and hypnosis gained credibility and was thought of as more than just a form of stage entertainment , more and more hypnotherapists began to use present-life regression in their work . |
| 14 | Of course er crack is just a form of cocaine , the worst form of cocaine . |
| 15 | therefore housework is not a form of work . |
| 16 | Is it not a form of self desecration not to cultivate this primeval delight in flowers ? |
| 17 | Yeah , not not a form of opening government . |
| 18 | Is this not a form of stereotyping at least as damaging as racist and sexist attitudes ? |
| 19 | But again , too evident delight in surmounting a difficulty which was after all self-imposed suggests that the Resident 's obscuration of the nature of his influence was primarily not a form of reticence or uncertainty , but of display . |
| 20 | It is from Paul , and Paul alone , that a new religion begins to emerge — not a form of Judaism , but a rival and ultimately an adversary to Judaism . |
| 21 | ‘ It is not a form of homosexuality . |
| 22 | The general form relied on the argument that the riots were not a form of protest against the insufferable social conditions of inner-city areas or the actions of the police , but a ‘ criminal act ’ or a ‘ cry for loot ’ . |
| 23 | In Schorske 's words , only in Austria was aestheticism ‘ not a form of protest versus bourgeois civilization ’ but ‘ an expression of that civilization , an affirmation of an attitude to life in which neither ethical nor social ideals played a dominant part ’ . |
| 24 | On one view , expert determination is not a form of dispute resolution at all . |
| 25 | Since the feminist perspective is necessarily critical , feminist philosophy is not a way of articulating women 's experience in parallel with men 's : it is not a form of relativism . |
| 26 | It is not a form of saving , as you lose the premium money if you survive the term . |
| 27 | It would be less passive , but still a form of projection , if in the above illustration I were to add , ‘ And doctors … if you would n't mind making notes … to help our discussion later ’ . |
| 28 | Tourism is still a form of colonisation , and our real holiday souvenir is , all too often , an attitude of superiority and control . |
| 29 | In other words , after a certain point , education becomes more a form of consumption for the individual than a form of investment for increasing his earnings further . |
| 30 | And some of the things that led up to it erm , yo you had like a form of spring cleaning yo you know |