Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] some [adj] form " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people hold that this is the case , that they must be superseded by some other form of basic unit for society . |
| 2 | But the list might give some idea of the maximum proportions of people who might think of some other form of credit as a potential alternative , when actually offered any particular type of credit . |
| 3 | Maybe he 's just an invisible presence , or lodged in some mechanical form . |
| 4 | Having sweated to produce a loudspeaker capable of reproducing the full frequency range , the experimenters refused even to consider the possibility that the test subjects might be rebelling against some new form of distortion instead of appreciating the improvement . |
| 5 | In most cases they do not ; they take in the element they require already compounded into some other form . |
| 6 | So we are talking in general terms about being willing to share our time , energy , space and care , particularly with people who have been recently bereaved through some major form of loss , maybe for a shod period of time while they readjust , maybe for a long time as the person or people involved learn to face life 's vicissitudes alone . |
| 7 | If they had not had medical knowledge , their mental problems would have surfaced in some other form . |
| 8 | The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' . |
| 9 | As an illustration , consider a state of mind , which Moore would certainly think intrinsically bad , consisting in some precise form of enjoyment of a specific piece of sadistic pornography . |
| 10 | She wrote a memorial to his brother George , now Prince Regent , Nelson 's friend , reminding him of the codicil which the national hero had made to his will leaving her and Horatia to the nation , and asking for it to be recognized in some tangible form . |
| 11 | In modern terms , the big muscles of the father would have to be translated into some coded form , which would later , in his sons , be translated back into big muscles again . |
| 12 | Fears that American frustration over the continuation of the war in Korea might lead to some reckless form of escalation persisted . |
| 13 | If you are on the Pill , and suspect you have candidiasis , you should ask your doctor about changing to some other form of contraception . |
| 14 | It is always embedded in some social form , in conventions such as letter writing , charters , catechisms , business styles , academic ‘ texts ’ etc. , and it is always learnt in relation to these uses in specific social conditions . |
| 15 | Chafe 's view is that the event is held in some abstract form which allows the recreation of sub-chunks and propositions on the basis of the needs of the story situation at that time . |