Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] form " in BNC.
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| 1 | His work has often incorporated a story-board-like element , smaller ‘ pictures ’ marching in squared-off boxes around the borders of his canvases or forming a predella-like frieze along the bottom . |
| 2 | This personality disorder is characterised by a lack of guilt and an inability to keep rules or form lasting relationships . |
| 3 | Their problem seems to be not one of the inability to choose goals or to form strategies for achieving them , but an incorrigible propensity to choose the wrong ones and an awesome efficiency in achieving them unless adults intervene . |
| 4 | These are the tracks to which a whole generation dated and danced , the driving rock numbers and sweet teen love songs that formed such an unforgettable soundtrack to our lives . |
| 5 | Hence character combinations that form words are considered to be more probable than character combinations which are not words . |
| 6 | Chapter 7 shows how the nature of management strategy has been influenced by the success of the government in changing the ‘ rules of the game ’ — the set of political signals that forms the environment for managerial decision-making and determines the broad costs and benefits of different courses of action . |
| 7 | In real time , the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down . |
| 8 | Because one is using Euclidean space-times , in which the time direction is on the same footing as directions in space , it is possible for space-time to be finite in extent and yet to have no singularities that formed a boundary or edge . |
| 9 | In addition to rate and resource limitations there are contradictions and conflicts within the set of jobs and goals that form a teacher 's working agenda . |
| 10 | The need for such detail , however , is not confined to Americans interested in the subject ; it encompasses all those who seek to make some sense of the institutions and complex relationships that form the British polity in the 1980s . |
| 11 | The presence of words that form a compound in consecutive positions other than by intention is improbable , hence from knowing the existence of a compound tennis courts one would give priority to these individual words over their alternative candidates . |
| 12 | But she clung on to the post , her body sinking to the floor , oblivious to the groans that issued from her own throat , and the words that formed on her lips . |
| 13 | The branches that form the walls are light and springy but they are backed by stout tree trunks . |
| 14 | The queer feeling came over her , that choking feeling in her throat which she experienced in the night , when she was lying awake trying to recall and piece together dim , fleeting memories of another time in which she had lived , when things had been both happy and sad , when angry broken sentences would not meet and so explain the odd pictures that formed in her mind . |
| 15 | We assessed whether DP-1 was present in DRTF1/E2F complexes that form on different E2F binding sites using the class 1 and class 2 consensus E2F binding sites which were defined by binding site selection and occur in the transcriptional control regions of certain cellular genes . |
| 16 | d , DP-1 is in DRTF1/E2F DNA binding complexes that form on divergent E2F binding sites . |
| 17 | Whilst recalling his early hardships Chaplin also provided a clue as to how he had overcome them for he spoke of how he had ‘ slaved like a nigger to master the difficult steps that formed the routine of the eight Lancashire lads ’ . |
| 18 | Word level restrictions may be imposed on the lattice by only allowing character sequences that form words ( thereby allowing semantic and other higher-level to be applied ) . |
| 19 | If they traverse a patch of sunshine , the soldiers link legs and form a roof over the path so that the workers , who are less well armoured , are protected from the damaging heat . |
| 20 | Not only is this format the simplest and earliest means of storing numeric data in the computer , it is also used for store addresses and forms the basis for encoding the individual subportions of more complicated arithmetic data-types , such as the fraction and exponent of the floating-point format described in 2.2 . |
| 21 | Take the same amount of red fondant trimmings and form a similar-sized cone . |
| 22 | It took a few minutes before his eyes had adjusted to semi-darkness and the great sweep of the headland became visible , its shapes and forms mysteriously altered under the high stars . |
| 23 | ‘ If an associate sees a problem ’ , says ‘ they inform their manager and peers and form a CAT ( corrective action team ) . |
| 24 | Priddle and Heywood ( 1980 ) regard antarctic lakes as forming an evolutionary series which has developed over the period of about 20 000 years since the ice-sheet was maximal ; this is in any case a convenient way of describing them . |
| 25 | However , a more realistic approach is to see trips as forming a chain , linking activities through the day . |
| 26 | If economic agents are assumed to be rational optimizers when forming expectations , why should they not also be rational optimizers when drawing up contracts ? |
| 27 | A complete Pterygote ovipositor , according to the interpretation of Scudder ( 1971 ) , consists of ( 1 ) a pair of small coxites of the 8th abdominal segment , each bearing ( 2 ) a gonapophysis , which forms an anterior ( ventral or first ) ovipositor valve ; ( 3 ) a pair of small coxites of the 9th segment , which bear ( 4 ) the paired gonapophyses that form the inner ( posterior or second ) ovipositor valves , as well as ( 5 ) a coxal extension or gonoplac , forming the dorsal ( lateral or third ) ovipositor valve . |
| 28 | Naturally the inherent constraints of the archaeological evidence , our caution about the relationship between the archaeological record and the activities that formed it , and the limited research which has been carried out determine the cohesion and balance of a work of this type . |
| 29 | Solid baulks pegged into equally stout legs form the seat and the no-nonsense trellis is the perfect host for climbers that form a frame for the composition . |
| 30 | The popular health system was one of the first organized by the popular movement and the revolutionary groups that formed the FMLN in 1980 . |