Example sentences of "to take the form of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ancestral spirits were believed to take the form of guardian dolphins or sharks , who guided canoes , effected rescues , and assisted in fishing . |
| 2 | Private money tends to take the form of individual donations from friends and organisations associated with Highlander . |
| 3 | The old categories of political economy continue to take the form of practical generalisations about a continuously changing , living , economic reality . |
| 4 | Now the local populace are hardly pleasant , as ( and you may notice this very quickly ) they all seem to take the form of disembodies eyes , bouncing skulls and Steve in a cameo role as The Village Drunk , among others . |
| 5 | Of late , however , oral questions ( popularised by the broadcasting of proceedings and , some would say , radically affected in character by that ) , have tended to take the form of a mini-debate , with statements and arguments merely palely disguised by some such prefix as ‘ Is the Minister aware that … ’ . |
| 6 | The role of consciousness in the socialization process is not clear ; socialization , at least when it is successful , appears to take the form of filling a ‘ tabula rasa ’ . |
| 7 | It is a shame that Iain Brown 's outstanding scholarship , evident in the extensive captions , was not allowed to take the form of a numbered catalogue but he has nevertheless produced an attractive companion publication for the show ( Monumental Reputation . |
| 8 | The skills of miners … are not easily transferable to other industries ; protest is less likely to take the form of moving to another industry . |
| 9 | The next national issue to take the form of open public discontent was in the summer of 1987 when a group of about 700 Crimean Tatars staged an unprecedented demonstration in Red Square . |
| 10 | The various nations and nationalities of the USSR , at the same time , had their specific concerns , and the neglect of these during the Stalin and Brezhnev years had led them to take the form of ‘ public disaffection , which now and then escalated into conflicts ’ . |
| 11 | His analysis also allows him to argue that the rationality which typifies our social institutions , and our transactions within them , is tending to take the form of strategic ( i.e. cognitive-instrumental ) rationality , rather than a genuinely interactive communicative rationality . |
| 12 | Not that they had anything against cats as cats , but witches were believed to take the form of cats , so it was all quite reasonable , really . ’ |
| 13 | Whilst we agree that demand for boat moorings is likely to grow , we believe the solution does not have to take the form of the ‘ designer ’ marinas of the 1980s , where extensive residential and leisure development were required to finance the capital investment in pontoons and related marina works . |
| 14 | In order to be ‘ Court of Justice proof ’ , this amendment will have to take the form of a change in the primary text of the Treaty or of the inclusion of an additional protocol . |
| 15 | In mass communication , feedback is more likely to take the form of audience research or sales figures , phone calls or letters . |
| 16 | According to the Middle East Economic Digest of July 19 , about US$1,200 million of the total was to take the form of grants , with the remainder composed of loans at concessional or close-to-market rates of interest . |
| 17 | The " United Front from Below " was to be based primarily on " the immediate demands of the workers " and was to take the form of joint agitation at local level , rather than of organizational unity on a national scale . |