Example sentences of "[adv] to form a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the four remaining parts of the lower dome have been built high enough to form a complete circle within the walls of the square , this circle provides the basis for supporting the actual dome . |
| 2 | Modelling indicates that in the open conformation of S. faecalis HPr , if Met51 were to be replaced by Gln51 , then the resulting longer side chain would be close enough to form a direct hydrogen bond to N 2 of His15 . |
| 3 | Is it the opportunity to slip in some data that are not strong enough to form a peer-reviewed paper or the liberty to digress and speculate which entices authors ? |
| 4 | A few days later , ash from the same eruption had reached Rio de Janeiro , 2,960 kilometres away , but here the fall was very scanty indeed — not thick enough to form a measurable deposit — and consisted only of the finest , dust-like particles . |
| 5 | The photosetter churned out the columns of type as a film , which had to be pasted up manually to form a complete page for the printing plate cameras . |
| 6 | A group of six pentagons folds naturally to form a serrated hemisphere . |
| 7 | Image processing techniques can be used to add the components together to form a composite image of the rock and to measure the proportions of the various minerals . |
| 8 | The story of Elton John meeting his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin through a small ad in Melody Maker is one of the music industry 's most famous legends , but the chances of two developing talents — a music writer and a lyricist — being brought together to form a successful partnership are n't good . |
| 9 | Mix all the ingredients together to form a firm paste . |
| 10 | The building blocks have n't come together to form a self-replicating chain like RNA . |
| 11 | The characteristics of these adjectives correspond to occurrence in the underlined position of the structure in ( 21 ) where the verb and the adjective are immediately bound together to form a complex property-nucleus which then enters into construction with the object : ( 21 ) |
| 12 | At the far end was a place where the backs of four high buildings came together to form a small courtyard . |
| 13 | There is a process of two individuals joining together to form a new life , often personified by children . |
| 14 | The question was whether , in the harsher climate of the late 1970s and early 1980s , the fragments could be welded together to form a new force in British politics . |
| 15 | Despite the quirky characterisations of Mr Amis , my mind returned , albeit lazily , to Brian Harley and his omnipotent putter , but I could not see how to fit the various pieces of evidence together to form a coherent whole . |
| 16 | Like Dexter , she had had enough of grappling with the bundles of facts she had accumulated , facts that did not slot together to form a coherent pattern ; but dissolved and reformed into new patterns every time she touched them . |
| 17 | The drafter may be tempted to adopt a 'scissors and paste " approach , drawing individual clauses from a number of precedents and putting them together to form a finished product . |
| 18 | Those parliamentarians across Europe who wish to see Europe united as an association of freely trading and co-operating independent states must take advantage of this breathing-space to gather together to form a common front . |
| 19 | The drawing suggests how separate information fields can combine together to form a large field . |
| 20 | The essential property of carbon atoms that makes them so suitable for life and for industrial synthetics , is that they join together to form a limitless repertoire of different kinds of very large molecules . |
| 21 | The local structure is governed by chemical forces , while on the other hand the long-range order reflects the way structural units on the local scale pack together to form a three-dimensional solid . |
| 22 | The three different unit sizes can be arranged together to form a natural stone effect . |
| 23 | Community life can not continue successfully unless there is some such orderly structure of mutually reinforcing expectations and ‘ roles ’ , some organization of interlocking parts which click together to form a harmonious whole . |
| 24 | A number of prominent politicians failed to win election at constituency level but nevertheless entered parliament on their party 's national lists ( where " scrap votes " , i.e. those cast for unsuccessful constituency candidates or county lists , were added together to form a national total ) . |
| 25 | And when two black holes collided and joined together to form a single hole , the area of the horizon of the final hole would be greater than the sum of the areas of the horizons of the original black holes . |
| 26 | In addition , the gill openings on either side of the head have fused together to form a single opening across the throat . |
| 27 | Two pieces of string can join together to form a single string ; ================================================================= in the case of open strings they simply join at the ends ( Fig. 10.3 ) , while in the case of closed strings it is like the two legs joining on a pair of trousers ( Fig. 10.4 ) . |
| 28 | Another way of putting this is that if we impose the restriction that by adding X and Z together to form a single variable ( X + Z ) , and carry out the regression : if β 1 really is equal to β 2 in the process generating Y t then the estimates of β and β 1 from equation ( 3.20 ) , in a large sample , should not differ very much from the estimates from equation ( 3.19 ) . |
| 29 | The ommatidia are packed closely together to form a multi-faceted compound eye . |
| 30 | Stir in yeast , make a well in the centre and slowly pour in the onion liquid and one teaspoon of the olive oil , stirring constantly to form a smooth dough . |