Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] form [prep] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Photographs : are certainly the most popular form of illustration but , as yet , desktop publishing systems can not handle them very well . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Meat and animal-based foods were put forward as the most nutritious form of sustenance and this propaganda changed the shape of generations . |
| 5 | Some advertise in the local papers — to my mind quite the most profitless form of contact or recruitment . |
| 6 | He sees consciousness as a more subtle form of matter and movement and the source of what we perceive both of the external world and of ourselves , our so-called inner processes lying in the non-manifest , pre-physical realm . |
| 7 | It would provide the multitudinous popular committees and activities with a more advanced form of organisation and structure . |
| 8 | Much more closely associated with the state than was the case in the Christian churches that owed their allegiance to Rome , Russian Orthodoxy helped to promote both a more communitarian form of politics and a feeling that Russians were a ‘ special people ’ with a particular destiny to fulfil in terms of world civilisation . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | However , where word processing is simply a more efficient form of typing and requires no great understanding of design or layout , desktop publishing demands that these things be understood . |
| 11 | However , where word processing is a simply more efficient form of typing and requires no great understanding of design or layout , desktop publishing demands that these things be understood . |
| 12 | Moreover , death is just ‘ the tip of the iceberg , ’ the most severe form of disease but a delayed and infrequent manifestation . |
| 13 | It condenses in a vivid image the most extreme form of violence and domination imaginable : the treatment of a social being as an animal , and the incorporation of its substance into one 's own body . |
| 14 | Swags and tails , done by draping and folding , are another fairly elaborate form of heading and can look enormously impressive . |
| 15 | Opera soon ceased to be a severely intellectual form of art and with the opening of the first public opera-house in Venice in 1637 it ceased to be an exclusively aristocratic one , though it seldom flourished without princely or aristocratic support . |
| 16 | Unit Trusts are becoming an increasingly popular form of investment and as a High Interest Cheque Account holder you are entitled to a 1% bonus allocation when you make a lump sum purchase of £500 or more of Midland Unit Trusts . |
| 17 | The LM 's are a particularly gentle form of treatment and any over-stimulus can be controlled by extra dilution of the medicine which your practitioner will be pleased to advise you about . |
| 18 | It is therefore in the interests of bureaucrats to go for increased staffing levels as a means of constructing such coalitions , and the implications of this clearly point to increased waste and inefficiency , since , having bid for a maximum budget , within that budget , instead of adopting the most efficient form of production and delivery of services , ‘ bureaucrats ’ can be expected to choose the most labour-intensive . |
| 19 | The fact is , it is a very resilient form of life and will proliferate mostly in poor , but also in quite good water quality . |