Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] form [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our old age we have found a more or less peaceful form of co-existence . |
| 2 | Even poetry would not address such matters except in the more or less orthodox , more or less devotional form of Paradise Lost . |
| 3 | Only political units which were small and remote from the international conflicts which agitated the greater powers , as were the Swiss cantons and some of the city-states of Germany and Italy , could hope to dispense permanently with some more or less effective form of kingship . |
| 4 | In practice , much academic interpretation — whether New Critical , archetypal , deconstructive , or whatever — is really , in his terms , a more or less refined form of description or ‘ scansion ’ . |
| 5 | There are also indoor pelota courts , called trinquets , which , to the lay eye anyway , can look like royal tennis courts , and where yet other forms of pelota are played , usually professionally ( I well remember , from my youth , that the then world real tennis champion was a Basque , a celebrated player who no doubt grew up democratically playing pelota and then switched easily enough to the very exclusive game of real or royal tennis ) . |
| 6 | What is in question is the comfortable argument that socially acceptable forms of work organisation always just happen to be those that are the most efficient . |
| 7 | An incidental effect was that more subtle forms of propaganda began to appear , from which it was difficult for a jury to infer that the defendant intended to stir up racial hatred . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most telling lesson of the past forty years has been the recognition that very different forms of life are built around essentially similar molecular mechanisms . |
| 9 | They offer a convenient , secure and widely accepted form of payment at more than 7 million outlets in the UK and overseas , displaying the Access , MasterCard and Eurocard symbols . |
| 10 | We are looking at the training arrangements and are anxious to ensure that our future forces receive the best and most relevant forms of training in the most efficient and cost-effective way . |
| 11 | This is in practice the most important and most powerful form of control , |
| 12 | One of the purest and most potent forms of skincare today |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That 's the way many people describe their sciatica — one of the commonest and most debilitating forms of neuralgia . |
| 15 | However , sending a letter to a large sample of people can be quite a costly business , not only in stationery and postage , but also in finding out the recipients ' correct names and addresses , if one is to avoid the very impersonal and rather off-putting form of address , ‘ The Occupant ’ . |
| 16 | The most complex and highly evolved forms of colonialism in the insect world are those created by the relations of the wasps and bees , the ants . |
| 17 | Thus on balance marginal and less protected forms of employment have not grown at any marked rate in the market capitalism phase that Lane distinguishes . |
| 18 | The Children Act 1989 will replace care orders in truancy cases with ‘ education supervision orders ’ , likely to be seen as a more constructive and less punitive form of order ( see below ) . |
| 19 | Together , these studies suggest that although individuals with the less active form of ALDH and more active forms of ADH are less likely to become alcoholic , they have a greater risk of developing alcoholic liver disease if they do drink than people with the normal form of ALDH and less active forms of ADH . |
| 20 | Whilst paying lip service to the sporting values of the public schools , suburban man was busy with less physically and morally taxing forms of exercise . |
| 21 | More recently , studies of modern objects by archaeologists working in the sub-discipline of ethno-archaeology have sought to provide ‘ general and testable ’ laws of stylistic behaviour , strongly influenced by an extreme and exquisitely inappropriate form of positivism which took hold of the discipline in the 1960s , and appears to have been retained long after most other social sciences threw off its shackles ( e.g. Binford 1972 ; 1978 ; Gould and Schiffer eds 1981 , see Hodder 1982a and b for a critique ) . |
| 22 | This vast geographical area — stretching from China to the Balkans and from India to the northern tip of the Caspian Sea — is inhabited by peoples of infinitely diverse cultural , religious and ethnic origins , whose only common feature ( apart from occupying territories along the old silk route to the East ) seems to be their desire and ability to elevate rug-making from a functional craft to an expressive and deeply satisfying form of art . |
| 23 | Most employees in this country are now reasonably certain of their supply of food , drink and shelter , and more subtle forms of comfort have become important goals . |
| 24 | And more extensive forms of record-keeping are required in order to build up fashionable supplements to GCSE such as profiles , and records or certificates of achievement . |
| 25 | Featuring ancient and more modern forms of railway traction , many of the working exhibits were once common around the Taunton railway scene . |
| 26 | It can afford motivation as hardly anything else can , and its influence can help both society and individuals to a fuller and more satisfying form of life . |
| 27 | The other argument says that we are a higher and more socialised form of beast and that our urges are informed by something more subtle than base instinct . |
| 28 | First , the use of IT is growing rapidly and potentially has great scope in improving the technical efficiency of services and more personalised forms of delivery . |
| 29 | The joint stock company , the characteristic device for the mobilization of capital , became more and more the usual pattern of business organization and the freely transferable share a more and more common form of property . |
| 30 | Importantly , speedier and more sophisticated forms of transport and electronic communications make it increasingly possible for these two forms of work to be in contact despite their physical separation or ‘ stretching ’ over time and space . |