Example sentences of "formed the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once formed the stony surface , often termed desert armour , will tend to protect the surface , very much as the coarse material in a stream bed makes it often less erodible than the banks . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By the time ZTT was formed the new pop sensibility had been subtly transformed into a commercial sensibility — the way to make sense of the pop process was in terms of market competition and success . |
| 4 | Brown Owl , moving quickly , placed Brownie after Brownie in position , until she had formed the first human letter : — |
| 5 | Blisters which had formed the first time now burst , weeping clear fluid onto the burner which hissed like an angry snake . |
| 6 | Having formed the first phrase and its complement as the first sentence of our theme , we must turn to the problem of what to do in the second sentence . |
| 7 | 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 ! ’ |
| 8 | Potassium channels formed the probably formed the evolutionary prototypes for all of the for the calcium and sodium channels which came later on . |
| 9 | At about that time a number of hotel-schools who had been involved in looking at accreditation with EURHODIP [ a group which has developed a European hotel diploma ] had formed the European Foundation for the Accreditation of Hotelschool Programmes [ EFAH ] . |
| 10 | This places his discourse firmly in the domain of public cultural policy and returns us directly to the concerns of the Newbolt Committee , indeed to one of its major areas of anxiety : " Whether the class.consciousness which has hitherto formed the chief force of [ linguistic ] stability in Great Britain , will continue to influence the masses , has yet to be seen . " |
| 11 | If a healthy personality is to be formed the psychic image of the child must merge with the reality of what the child actually is . |
| 12 | It was announced on Nov. 6 that former Prime Minister Col. Kasdi Merbah , who had resigned in October from the central committee of the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) [ see p. 37795 ] , had formed the Algerian Movement for Justice and Development . |
| 13 | Four Eritrean groupings opposed to the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) transitional government in Asmara were reported on Sept. 28 to have formed the Eritrean National Pact Alliance ( ENPA ) , accusing the Front of seeking to establish a dictatorship . |
| 14 | ( Soviet Moldavians were ethnically Romanian , most of their republic having formed the Romanian region of Bessarabia prior to its annexation by the Soviet Union in 1940 . ) |
| 15 | The Romanian government maintained cordial relations with the Soviet Union , taking a cautious approach to the situation in the neighbouring Moldavian SSR , most of the territory known having formed the Romanian region Bessarabia before its annexation by the Soviet Union in 1940 [ see p. 37257 ] . |
| 16 | Better that we get rid of these people in the Labour Party if they do not want our involvement let them go and form their own party , as a trade union ordinarily formed originally formed the Labour Party ! |
| 17 | The trial judge directed the jury if at the time he collected the coins the defendant had formed the dishonest intention of keeping them for himself he was guilty of theft . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | To that end , they have formed the Distributed Support Information Standards Group and say the standards it will seek to establish will address the concerns of organisations responsible for service , support and management of networked systems . |
| 22 | The four opposition parties which had formed the Democratic Bloc in May [ see p. 38982 ] voiced opposition to the constitutional proposals . |
| 23 | In 1792 , however , Lewis was elected surveyor to Christ 's Hospital and in the following year he was appointed to the corresponding post at the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals ; and from then on these institutional responsibilities appear to have formed the principal element in his career . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This is a kind of degradation which indicates that when they were formed the Mercurian surface may have been warm enough for it to be slightly plastic . |
| 26 | These incentives , together with controls on the location of industry , have formed the main body of regional policy measures developed to promote industrial growth in the assisted areas . |
| 27 | In this connection it is perhaps significant that the boundary between the parish and Snodland was the old track or Ridgeway , now largely destroyed by chalk quarries , which , keeping to the highest and driest line over the downs is thought to have formed the main east-west route at this period , crossing the River Medway at Holborough as Mr Margery suggested . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The four main opposition parties announced on June 30 that they had formed the National Democratic Front to co-ordinate their election campaign . |