Example sentences of "[vb base] in the form [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They appear in the form of a pair of vermilion ‘ chops ’ on our family note-paper and on quite a number of original Chinese paintings inscribed to us by the artists . |
| 2 | They often appear in the form of socks and underwear left on the bedroom floor , lawn-mower left out in the rain , toilet seat left up , or bank account overdrawn . |
| 3 | Huntley , a burly 51-yearold , has created a constant reminder of who they are and what they want in the form of glossy profiles , complete with pictures , inserted beneath a glass plate on the leather topped table in his office . |
| 4 | Moreover , the distribution of money ( say in the form of transfer payments ) increases individuals ' incomes . |
| 5 | The paper had to wait , It announced , ‘ until our much talked about ‘ profits ’ materialize in the form of hard cash . ’ |
| 6 | So comparing alternatives which are alike save in the form of organisation , we see that the theoretical expectation that superior motivation , the plus-factor available to the co-operative form , should enable it to out-produce the conventional form is borne out in practice . |
| 7 | This may therefore give rise to increased endogenous triglyceride synthesis and release in the form of VLDL . |
| 8 | These strategies are now incorporated into weapons design in the form of ‘ logic bombs ’ — computer viruses built into weapons systems sold for export , which are programmed to go off when targeted on the system 's country of origin . |
| 9 | " I shall also give a warning to those present , to the effect that , in my view , nothing could be worse for the treatment of cholera than the warm baths , mustard-plasters and compresses recommended by Dr Dunstaple , which can only further reduce the water content of the blood No medicine could be more dangerous in cholera collapse than opium , and calomel in the form of a pill is utterly useless . " |
| 10 | There has been a real enough change in the form of capitalist property but the notion that the workers ‘ control ’ industry through their pension funds or life assurance contributions is manifestly absurd . |
| 11 | Records of their two sons , however , and of their daughter , also named Maria Dorothea but known as Miemie , remain in the form of wills and marriage or death certificates . |
| 12 | In many parts of the moor contemporary burial and religious sites remain in the form of barrows , cists , stone circles and stone rows . |
| 13 | So some of the sulphur which has been blamed for causing environmental problems , may before long emerge in the form of ‘ Andricite , ’ plaster and wall-boards in our houses — courtesy of ICI . |
| 14 | The banks will typically seek to restore their liquidity by drawing down some of their funds which they keep in the form of call or short term deposits with the discount houses . |
| 15 | For a start , there is considerable freedom of entry for all involved , unlike the formal sector where barriers exist in the form of qualifications , contracts and other institutional restrictions . |
| 16 | The remnants of this practice still exist in the form of the viva voce , where a student 's work is assessed by examiners . |
| 17 | And help in the form of money and labour is also welcome ! |
| 18 | Even higher costs come in the form of lost land and buildings . |
| 19 | Guest passes come in the form of rather fetching hospital wrist bands . |
| 20 | Microelectronic applications to production machinery usually come in the form of control devices ; so , on the factory floor at least , new technology is essentially bound up with control over the pace of production and the quality of output . |
| 21 | Wood floorcoverings come in the form of hardwood blocks , square mosaic panels made up of individual fingers of wood , or planks ( often of veneer on a plywood backing ) . |
| 22 | Most of the pains come in the form of bills for water , gas , electricity , rates/rent etc . |
| 23 | Consents to pollute come in the form of emission or effluent standards which prescribe the temperature , amount , and kind of polluting matter which may be discharged from a particular source . |
| 24 | The third room displays Florentine pietra dura ( hard stone ) work in the form of cabinets , tabletops , pictures and decorative objects . |
| 25 | Sometimes organisms acquire the particular materials they need in the form of the element ; oxygen , for example , is taken in largely in the form of oxygen gas . |
| 26 | Both poor and rich fen occur in the form of ‘ schwingmoor ’ i.e. as a floating mat of vegetation over water . |
| 27 | Instead they brew up such social hatred and stigmatisation until their modern burnings occur in the form of arson and firebombings , the latest attack inflicted upon The Bridge of Dreams new age shop in Lincoln being a sad example ( Lincolnshire Echo , January 28 ) . |