Example sentences of "be [adv] form " in BNC.

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1 First , the issue must be one on which attitudes are widely formed ( and the vast majority of issues fail such a test ) ; second , opinion on the issue must be skewed rather than evenly balanced ; and third , the public must see the parties differently in relation to the issue .
2 The test will check the presence , condition and any obscuration of the plates ; that letters and figures are not obviously incorrectly spaced ; and that characters are properly formed .
3 Some water-formed features therefore , including the sand-bars that may form parallel with a shore-line with a salt-marsh behind , are constantly formed , destroyed and re-formed .
4 What differentiates true experiments from non-experimental enquiries is the attempt , either in the laboratory or field , to produce an effect among groups which have been randomly formed ; in the simplest experiment , the researcher deliberately alters the X values of an experimental group , and sees what effect this has on their Y values by comparing them with a control group .
5 All volcanic activity involves the expulsion of some gas but major landforms are only formed through the eruption of lava or tephra .
6 But Wagner 's art , so irresistible and so much to the fore in Nietzsche 's thinking , seemed to presuppose some value other than — or in addition to — beauty : and was this not also true of Greek art , on the basis of which the theory of beauty had been largely formed ?
7 This helped to deal a crippling blow to the preformationist theory , which argued that all parts of a living organism are already formed in miniature in the seed or egg from which it comes .
8 Partnership may turn out to have a relatively long life but are not formed on that expectation .
9 So acyclovir phosphate and triphosphate are not formed in healthy cells , whose DNA synthesis is therefore not affected .
10 Attitudes towards employment , retirement , and early retirement are not formed in a vacuum .
11 But they are not formed into sequences having different significance according to their manner of combination and the basic items they contain .
12 Westermarck ( 1891 ) believed that satisfying sexual relationships are not formed between people who have spent their childhood together .
13 Ideals are not formed in an aseptic vacuum , but in the chemical brew of interacting personal lives and events .
14 Clearly memories are not formed instantaneously , as if by throwing a switch , but are built up over a period of hours after the event to be memorized has occurred ; during this build-up the form in which any memory is stored changes .
15 This is a common feature of the rational expectations hypothesis and it provides an obvious way of testing the hypothesis , for if on estimating equation ( 3.18 ) we found ‘ widely different ’ coefficients on , widely different estimates of α t , then it would suggest that either equation ( 3.6 ) is untrue or expectations are not formed rationally .
16 They are not forming stimulus-response associations .
17 They informed the Headmaster in April that " the 39 Articles are not to form any part of the tuition of the Schools and are not to be enforced " .
18 They 're about to form the basis of a sofa .
19 They 're about to form the basis of a sofa .
20 Produce letters that are recognisably formed and properly oriented and that have clear ascenders and descenders where necessary .
21 I can quite understand his point of view , noticing the volatile ingredients for a riot are rapidly forming ( forty miles to go , and only one giant chocolate-chip cookie among the three hundred remaining in the queue ) .
22 Cursive Writing executed without raising the pen from the vellum or paper , so that the characters are rapidly formed with a running hand .
23 The student can understand that the discipline is not given in any absolute sense , but has been socially formed and reflects interests both of rival factions within the disciplinary culture and of the wider society .
24 Core electrons are not normally involved in the bonding of the molecule , and so when they are ejected the resulting ions are usually formed in their vibrational ground states .
25 The curls are still forming and washing makes them drop .
26 According to research conducted both by Daryl Foster , the Kent coach and Jim Davies , the Essex physiotherapist , the flogging begins in a fast bowler 's mid-teens , when the bones are still forming , and continues unabated , the present county structure permitting scant time for recovery from the thump and grind .
27 The cylindrical rooms which are logically formed within the tower at several levels are usually of quite small diameter — indeed , decreasing diameter the nearer they are to the top of the tower .
28 When you work long hours with people , bonds are inevitably formed .
29 Sets are often formed by sorting .
30 In this way , researchers can never explain why it is that wants or preferences manifested by individuals in social and political action are originally formed .
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