Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] form [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also noticeable that many incidents of prison disorder — especially the popular form of demonstration on the prison rooftop — are clearly motivated by the very desire to make prisoners ' grievances and allegations visible in a way that would never normally happen . |
| 2 | Although incorporating some features of the previous 1963 edition , this was basically a new form of contract and by implication was intended by the JCT to be used on contracts exceeding £250,000 in value . |
| 3 | Democracy signified a particular type of society , and not merely a particular form of government , or of choosing a government . |
| 4 | Nor does the grain mediate a ‘ pure genetic transmission ’ of culture , in which ( like the song of the white-crowned sparrow ) only a single form of behaviour can be taught and learned . |
| 5 | Gross has happily classified some 3,000 under various headings : Self-Love ( ’ To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance ’ — Oscar Wilde ) ; Love , Jealousy , Libido ( ’ No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes ’ — Michael Frayn ) ; Secrets ( ’ There is something about a cupboard that makes a skeleton terribly restless ’ — anon ) and Criticism ( ’ In some cases taking up the trade of critic is only an embittered form of renunciation ’ — Albert Guinon ) . |
| 6 | Perhaps this was just a new form of indigestion . |
| 7 | From an administration point of view contra is generally a messy form of collection , especially when VAT is involved . |
| 8 | Thus an indirect form of Exchequer aid began . |
| 9 | I think its just an extreme form of friendship , you 've become extremely friendly with somebody and it can be kind , in love with your , with your girlfriend it do n't have to be in love with your boyfriend , you can have you know some body who 's a same sex and you 've got the same feelings towards them |
| 10 | Agriculture and forestry are still the dominant form of land use in Europe and have a significant , even crucial , role in determining the ecological balance . |
| 11 | As I have argued at length elsewhere , retirement is both the leading form of age discrimination and the driving force behind the wider development of ageism in modern societies . |
| 12 | This does not mean that Lenin is here denying the class war , for the ‘ peaceful ’ , ‘ cultural ’ work of ‘ organisation ’ is also a special form of class struggle . |
| 13 | But the late Elizabethans and Jacobeans cultivated with the utmost fertility both a free form of ricercar , the fantasia or ‘ fancy ’ , and the peculiarly English ‘ In nomine ’ ( see p. 240 ) , as well as dance music and song-arrangements , both for consort ( usually for viols , though also ‘ broken ’ , i.e. for mixed instruments ) and for keyboard ( usually the small table-harpsichord known as virginals , or organ ) . |
| 14 | Conditions on the factories were hard , long hours were worked and often the only form of lighting used on dark mornings or afternoons was a simple oil lamp with a guttering smokey flame . |
| 15 | There were some families in which domestic help from a widowed grandmother was really a disguised form of assistance in the other direction . |
| 16 | This type of statistical work is about inferring things from the data and is really a sophisticated form of guesswork . |
| 17 | A lecture course is often a passive form of learning : you listen acutely and take notes but are generally discouraged from asking questions or raising points because the size of the group inhibits fruitful exchanges . |
| 18 | I had a sudden pang of conscience that I really ought to tell them that the funny-looking herb on the left of their kitchen garden was not really an obscure form of ivy and on no account must they attempt to smoke its leaves . |
| 19 | Sleek , solidly built , gentle on the environment , they are often an ideal form of city transport . |
| 20 | This is often an unintentional form of steering which happens when the sail is not at the correct angle to the wind — the section of the sail next to the mast does not fill with wind and the driving force acts from a couple of feet farther back . |
| 21 | The over-running and Anglicising of the Highlands after Culloden , when even the traditional form of dress was banned , would soon lead to assimilation , and even though ‘ the inhabitants of mountains form distinct races , and are careful to preserve their genealogies ’ , Johnson concludes without emotion that ‘ while their rocks seclude them from the rest of mankind , and kept them an unaltered and distinctive race … they are now losing their distinction , and hastening to mingle with the general community . ’ |
| 22 | But you are very unlikely to be able to show a link which is directly attributable to your activities and you will be encouraging the view that media relations is simply a cheap form of advertising . |
| 23 | As I have suggested , up to a generation ago a common form of life united sixth-form and university English , regardless of whether their orientation was ‘ Oxford ’ or ‘ Cambridge ’ , since the latter made much the same assumptions about literacy and competence as the former . |
| 24 | Norway was more cautious , with several influential politicians fearing that even a limited form of cooperation might erode national sovereignty . |
| 25 | Imposing exogenously a particular form of price rigidity which happens to produce the result that Keynesian stabilization policies can work is hardly enough by itself to justify such policies . |
| 26 | Metal collars with long steel spikes were undoubtedly the favourite form of protection against throttling , although Punch ( 13 December 1862 ) also dreamt up ‘ great coats made a-la-porcupine … with spring daggers at the elbows and sharp spikes all up the back ’ in order to discourage attack from the rear . |
| 27 | Medical science was not yet equipped for investigation into near-death experiences , to which we shall refer in the final chapter ; almost the only form of resuscitation with which doctors were familiar was that following near-fatal immersion in water , accompanied , as it often is , by a rapid replay of the victim 's life . |
| 28 | In short , the novel is characteristically a realistic form of narrative . |
| 29 | It is indeed a special form of oxygen , an allotrope , but with very different chemical properties . |
| 30 | The activities specified in it invariably extend to virtually every conceivable form of business , and so no basis is provided for example for restricting the ability of the company to diversify . |