Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] form [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The South-West forwards tried to play a similar mauling game , but with Teague far short of his true form they seldom made much headway and only occasionally produced clean possession for Hill .
2 In their pure form they have neither corporate nor competitive strategies as defined above .
3 Indeed , for all but those organisations which know precisely how much additional manpower they need and for how long , in their simple form they are a particularly unsuitable means of employing temporary workers .
4 There are considerable differences over the interpretation of the three methodological practices , but in their general form they are common currency amongst Marxists .
5 And in its current form it would seem to be leading , at both regional and local level , to an increasingly unequal national geography ( Martin , 1988 ) .
6 Therefore , if the Directive is adopted in its current form it will reduce the available protection for certain electronic databases to the lower 10 years unfair extraction right period .
7 In its concentrated form it is hazardous to handle especially as many commercial formulations are stabilised with caustic soda .
8 In its legal forms it legitimates or ignores the voices under its control .
9 In its cheaper forms it still suffers from the classical trouble of intolerable leakage in bad weather , especially because of the much higher loads put into the hull by modern rigs .
10 In its various forms it could be used to finance private roads , regulate traffic on the M25 and bring order to inner-city roads .
11 If we wish to preserve a landscape in its present form we must actively direct it towards that end .
12 Chemically , it is similar to cellulose and in its pure form it is flexible and permeable .
13 In its revised form it has precisely the same aim : to provide a bridge between those who find themselves divided by the renewal movement .
14 In its weakest form it can be a moistening of the eyes on hearing a moving poem or line of music .
15 They believed , you see , that the tortoise was an animal of great purity — in its hard-soft form they saw the meeting of Yin and Yang , of Heaven and Earth .
16 This step is the preparatory part of the process and in its ideal form it produces an electron in one of those well-defined states of motion which we have learnt to think of as represented by a vector in a vector space .
17 In its archetypal form it involves tuning in psychically to past lives , to artefacts hidden in the countryside and to issues not resolved in the past .
18 In its upright form it represents the vertical thrust of life across sedimentary layers of earthly matter .
19 A poor Provençal family might find their great son 's version of a familiar dish lacking in savour , although in its original form it would have made , with a saucerful of olives and perhaps a dish of fresh figs , an entire meal .
20 In our normal form we will insist that if two expressions are both available as outputs on the same channel , or for assignment to the same variable , then they are different .
21 On her best form she is a cut above the rest , but Carson 's mount , Princess Sobieska , could be a dangerous rival .
22 On his present form we really would have been better sticking with Chappie .
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