Example sentences of "[adv] an [adj] form [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Thus an indirect form of Exchequer aid began . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sleek , solidly built , gentle on the environment , they are often an ideal form of city transport . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although the number of lessons needed may make it quite an expensive form of treatment , nonetheless it is very effective and many long-standing ills may be cured by its use . |
| 8 | It is here , as our LFS analysis and our case studies indicate , that fixed-term contracts are quite an important form of engagement for temporary workers . |
| 9 | Robbery is essentially an aggravated form of theft . |