Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] form [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Democracy signified a particular type of society , and not merely a particular form of government , or of choosing a government . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Perhaps this was just a new form of indigestion . |
| 5 | From an administration point of view contra is generally a messy form of collection , especially when VAT is involved . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | There were some families in which domestic help from a widowed grandmother was really a disguised form of assistance in the other direction . |
| 9 | This type of statistical work is about inferring things from the data and is really a sophisticated form of guesswork . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Norway was more cautious , with several influential politicians fearing that even a limited form of cooperation might erode national sovereignty . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In short , the novel is characteristically a realistic form of narrative . |
| 16 | It is indeed a special form of oxygen , an allotrope , but with very different chemical properties . |
| 17 | Markets and fairs remained perquisites of the manor even at Lewes , the capital of East Sussex , where otherwise a rudimentary form of self-government was well established . |
| 18 | Indeed , as the new offence is defined , it creates what is essentially a statutory form of assault . |