Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] form " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tadpoles of some spadefoot toads are gregarious and form large moving shoals . |
| 2 | The 10th segment is usually distinct and forms the terminal segment in the higher orders . |
| 3 | Hands-on , value-driven : management is about the implementation of values which are explicit and form the basis for action . |
| 4 | Now such a mechanism must be identified which connects content and form inside the aesthetic realm . |
| 5 | In both content and form there was a parallel shift from the classical and idealized to the every-day and contingent . |
| 6 | When they were ready , send a messenger back to bring over the remainder , who would endeavour to ride on and past as silently as possible and form the barrier between town and castle . |
| 7 | Through his own efforts , he got together a group of people interested in the spiritual care of the blind as well as the deaf and formed the Leeds United Institution for the Blind , the Deaf and the Dumb in 1850 although it was not until 1875 that the foundation stone of their first centre was laid . |
| 8 | She went to the University of Nebraska , and was a star pupil , writing scathing reviews of books , theatre and opera , cross-dressing and forming passionate attachments to other women . |
| 9 | These limestones are completely tight and form lenses or nodules which vary considerably in horizontal and vertical distribution from one well to another ( Fig. 21 ) . |
| 10 | Thinking about this one morning in 1954 , I went along to the keeper of the laboratory chemical stores and asked him for something which was water-soluble and formed needle crystals . |
| 11 | It is stopped from passing completely into solution , partly by the large size of the cellulose molecules and , more , by the fact that , in natural cellulose , the whole system is tied together mechanically by the presence of the crystals , which are water-proof and form a good proportion of the whole mass . |
| 12 | It is structureless and metabolically inert but forms mechanical " springs " which are readily deformed and show perfect elastic recovery . |
| 13 | Muscles and tendons are just as important and form a much more complex pattern . |
| 14 | Lay the blind out flat with wrong side uppermost and form the lath channel by turning 1cm ( ⅜in ) up to the wrong side along the bottom edge , then turn up a further 4cm ( 1 ½in ) . |
| 15 | The section on the management of theatres and arts facilities explains that certain community-based facilities may be exempt and that , provided that subsidies are put up front and form part of the tender process , they may be allowed , yet it is appropriate that there should be tendering for the management of theatres such as the Derngate in Northampton . |
| 16 | Although the triple junctions identified in Africa , including those along the continental margin as well as those in the interior , have variously evolved by spreading along one , two or all three rift arms , the most common sequence has been for one arm to remain inactive and form an aulacogen , with spreading occurring along the other two ( Fig. 4.13 ) . |
| 17 | One is an actual building which holds a bar , restaurant , disco , or any combination of the three , that is there specifically for singles to patronise , the other is a group of people who are all single and form a club that has different social activities at different venues . |
| 18 | A horizon of humus accumulation may be present above the iron pan ( Bf horizon ) which is often continuous and forms a barrier to water or roots . |
| 19 | After 12 days of protest in Chechen-Ingushia , the National Congress dissolved the Supreme Soviet and formed an interim administration , charged with organizing presidential elections . |
| 20 | The sweet bay is an evergreen shrub or shrubby tree from southern Europe and Asia Minor , whose leathery leaves are pungently aromatic and form the basis for much classic French cooking ; bouquet garni has many variations , but a bay leaf is essential . |
| 21 | An observer summed up the typical bourgeois of Lille as a man who ‘ fears God , but above all his wife , and reads the Echo du Nord ’ , and this is at least as likely a reading of the facts of bourgeois family life as the male-formulated theory of female helplessness and dependence , sometimes pathologically exaggerated into the masculine dream , and occasional practice , of the child-wife selected and formed by the future husband . |
| 22 | In their personal lives there had been parallels that had drawn them close and formed a bond between them ; not least the loss of both their wives some ten years back . |