Example sentences of "very [adj] form of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , in addition , the judiciary then substitute their opinion as to the precise meaning that each of these terms should bear for that of the initial decision-maker , the result will be a very extensive form of review . |
| 2 | As trends move away from very hierarchical forms of management the challenge is to find , not so much the furthest point away from you to which to delegate , but the most appropriate . |
| 3 | We emphasised in section 5.1 that bills are a very liquid form of asset . |
| 4 | This seems a very strange form of happiness ! |
| 5 | He says , all I was doing in Totem and Taboo , was trying to explain Totemism , a very specific form of religion . |
| 6 | But this may look like a very odd form of neutrality to the weaker child . |
| 7 | It is a very professional form of sport-entertainment . |
| 8 | The fact is , it is a very resilient form of life and will proliferate mostly in poor , but also in quite good water quality . |
| 9 | First , it is difficult to account for the very different forms of state intervention and political representation if one follows the instrumentalist position , and it is also difficult to explain how it is that the whole capitalist system coheres and is reproduced if the capitalists do not control and dominate the bureaucratic and political levers of the state , as modern instrumentalists now accept . |
| 10 | Even states with very different forms of life and different moral world views do in fact behave in similar ways . |
| 11 | Perhaps the most telling lesson of the past forty years has been the recognition that very different forms of life are built around essentially similar molecular mechanisms . |
| 12 | But our experience is that this sort of ad this sort of presentation interviewing those sorts of things , they 're very different forms of presentation . |
| 13 | Eliot 's concern that his own urban society be well founded on a necessary myth was accentuated by the realization that this society was now annihilating other very different forms of civilization . |
| 14 | Graham Greene , in Panama a few years earlier , noticed a similar style of popular consultation and accessibility being used by General Omar Torrijos and his government , and suggested that the country " had evolved a very different form of democracy " from Britain 's , but one with its own validity . |
| 15 | It is my guess that metabolic competition is a very old form of protection from infection — crude , destructive but very effective . |
| 16 | I take it that some very primitive form of life arose spontaneously on earth from chance combinations of atoms . |
| 17 | The differences are not simply ones of climate and agricultural potential , but also of land tenure patterns , with a very specialized form of tenure called crofting ( 2 ) predominating in the north and west . |
| 18 | or yelling at women who come into the bar in a way that even the same people sober might well agree is n't a very acceptable form of behaviour . |
| 19 | Other cheaper and very hard-wearing forms of floor covering well worth considering are sisal , coir or coconut matting or hair and woolcord . |
| 20 | The distinction appeared to be maintainable while the courts applied a very limited form of review . |
| 21 | And Clara saw that Mrs Hanney 's ignominy was complete , for this programme , the name of which her mother so evidently did not forget , was considered by her mother to be the very lowest form of entertainment available , designed for the exceptionally stupid and depraved . |
| 22 | The neurophysiological basis of such reactions is unknown , but some analysis of very simple forms of learning has been made ( Horridge , 1962 : Hoyle , 1965 ) . |
| 23 | It is just conceivable , however that , even at this time he may have started to indulge in a very simple form of god worship entirely on his own as a single individual , group worship following much later . |
| 24 | This is a very simple form of communication , and one that we use ourselves . |
| 25 | One prominent tendency in recent Marxist thought , therefore , has been to replace the relatively simple and precise evolutionary scheme of Marx 's 1859 Preface by a more complex and indefinite picture of the history of society in which , beyond the primitive communal stage , two broad types of society are distinguished — pre-capitalist and capitalist each of which may develop very diverse forms of economy , politics and culture . |
| 26 | They know how to cope and they have very sophisticated forms of irrigation . |
| 27 | Lévi-Strauss reads then a very modernist Kelsenian ‘ legalism ’ into pre-modern societies and hence misses their very characteristic form of power relations . |
| 28 | Doctors and other health workers , who went to work in the zones controlled by the FMLN during the civil war , learnt very effective forms of treatment from the peasants they worked with . |
| 29 | 7 different types of the drug ( Depo-Provera ) are still being sold as very effective forms of contraception with no side effects . |
| 30 | The debates could be a very effective form of control where broad political issues were at stake ; but much Community legislation is highly technical and not readily comprehensible without considerable understanding of the Community background and of the special sectors which would be affected . |