Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] form [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 All normal men find that the same sort of actions and feelings , basically the various forms of benevolence , possess this quality .
2 In the summer , blues and pinks predominate but there are always plenty of white flowers , especially the white forms of cosmos and Campanula persicifolia , to set off the other colours .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 . ’
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 From the fifth century onwards the Byzantine forms of church plan were evolved from the Early Christian examples .
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