Example sentences of "[verb] some form of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse still , one third of premature babies due or suffer some form of handicap throughout life . |
| 2 | About 1 in 10 young children suffer some form of head injury , with learning problems in later years . |
| 3 | One possibility is that , with all its institutional faults , the spiritual church offers some form of communication with that part of women that maintains contact with the power of fertility . |
| 4 | But if you do n't want to stretch your luck or your circle of friends , you might think that using a trade association offers some form of protection . |
| 5 | Moderators will expect to see some form of unseen testing within these schemes . |
| 6 | During his visit Hammadi reportedly attempted to persuade Iran to press SAIRI into accepting some form of power-sharing deal . |
| 7 | There were comparable difficulties elsewhere , particularly in Georgia and Uzbekistan , and indeed there were few parts of Soviet territory that did not experience some form of nationalist self-consciousness combined with pressure for a greater degree of cultural and economic autonomy . |
| 8 | Of the 10 patients with indeterminate colitis — three developed pelvic sepsis one because of a leak from the pouch and six have developed some form of pouch related fistula ( p=0.01 v ulcerative colitis group ) . |
| 9 | She was insistent in case there should be a separation that he should make some form of , of proper financial arrangement for them , a legally binding agreement . |
| 10 | The majority of votes , however , were cast for parties which do want some form of accommodation , if only on different terms . |
| 11 | The situation was considerably better among Baptists where half the ministers had received some form of higher education . |
| 12 | A Department of Employment survey in 1988 of individuals attending courses or receiving job-related training , found that just 4.5 per cent of economically active men aged 50–59 and 1.9 per cent of those aged 60–64 had received some form of course or training in the four weeks prior to the interview . |
| 13 | Thus it is quite plausible to suggest that see evokes some form of inference here . |
| 14 | For if you are not exercising aerobically using some form of whole body continuous movement ( brisk walking , jogging , cycling ) for 30 minutes at least three to four times a week , then by definition , you are sedentary . |
| 15 | This type of thing is usually implemented using some form of checksum system . |
| 16 | Previously , the 1969 and 1977 NOP surveys had broached this problem , with a question asking people whether they had considered using some form of credit but had not actually done so — and exploring their reasons . |
| 17 | Many hauliers have spent years operating vehicles actually owned by the haulage company , but the benefits of expanding business using some form of contract hire agreement can not be ignored . |
| 18 | Moving signs , while using some form of sequence information , can either be temporally redundant ( i.e. have position features which are similar at the start and finish of the sign ) or be temporally salient ( i.e. have position features which are different at the start and the finish of the sign ) . |
| 19 | Kieman , Reid and Jones ( 1982 ) , in a survey of special schools using some form of signing , claim 34 per cent of schools responding have a PGSS programme and 33 per cent of children had some PGSS in their education . |
| 20 | The reasons for using some form of external assistance in recruiting key people are often quite clear : the confidentiality , the know-how and the experience are all obvious factors ; why bring in a headhunter rather than use an advertising consultant is sometimes more difficult to explain . |
| 21 | The majority of women aged 35 and over were using some form of birth control . |
| 22 | If you 're not already using some form of contraceptive , you 'd better see to it , although normally I 'd agree that it 's a joint responsibility , since it seems that I 'm so atrociously lacking in control where you 're concerned … damn you , Maria . ’ |
| 23 | An estimated 270 million women are currently using some form of contraception , but this figure and the table below are likely to underestimate — by a wide margin — the numbers of women using traditional methods . |
| 24 | Of the 106 authorities who responded and could be used for analysis , seventy-eight were described as using some form of standardised intelligence test and nearly all were using examination procedures to measure attainment in English and arithmetic , though the variety of standard , ‘ tried out ’ and internal tests was wider . |
| 25 | ( How agents perform this prodigious feat of mimicry without actually using some form of the correct model remains decidedly mysterious to this author . ) |
| 26 | A huge amount of mail poured into Rough Trade 's offices demanding some form of release of the legendary Smiths radio sessions . |
| 27 | If we were to insist that prayer involves some form of dialogue then it would presuppose that we already know what is meant by the concept of God . |
| 28 | A buy-out usually involves some form of leverage , in that financing is provided by banks and investment institutions . |
| 29 | A number of states took steps to implement some form of gun control in 1989 following the shooting in Stockton , California , in January of five school children by a deranged gunman , Patrick Purdy , using an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle [ see p. 36520 ] . |
| 30 | To avoid the type of problems introduced above , among others , many commentators who accept at least some redistribution as a relevant policy objective advocate some form of automatic tax-transfer system as the only adjunct to an otherwise ‘ minimum state ’ guaranteeing law and order and little else . |