Example sentences of "[prep] a form [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Facing the Red Cross building to your right , is the vinárna or tavern called U Palcátu , named after a form of blunderbuss used by the Hussites . |
| 2 | The purpose of this wing was to test aircraft that came out after a form of garage servicing ; this was before the garage system introduced by Bennett in the earlier days of Pathfinding at RAF Wyton . |
| 3 | For all its stress on history and totalization as process , Sartre 's argument is structured through the creation of a form of synchronicity . |
| 4 | Scott argues further that insufficient attention has been paid to the potential for collaborative action on the part of shareholders , which he regards as indicating the possibility of a form of ownership control despite the absence of minority holdings large enough in themselves to amount to a control position . |
| 5 | The expectation that the Afro-Caribbean and Asian minorities would simply blend into a homogeneous British or even English stew , perhaps adding some harmless spice , was revealed as not only hopelessly unrealistic but symptomatic of a form of racism which regarded ‘ Britishness ’ and ‘ Westernness ’ as the only touchstones of cultural value . |
| 6 | Although the 1988 Matignon Accords formed the basis of a ceasefire in the struggle for the New Caledonian independence , there was increasing discussion during 1990 of the possibility that the planned independence referendum — scheduled for 1998 — could be abandoned in favour of a form of independence in association with France . |
| 7 | This poetic teaching which enacts a surrogate experience of the operation of grace is extended in Rolle 's recommendation of a form of prayer which , though obviously popular in the Middle Ages , he yet made peculiarly his own , devotion to the name of Jesus . |
| 8 | Here the term ‘ language- game ’ is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity , or of a form of life . |
| 9 | Can we , at a deeper level perhaps , identify elements of a form of life , with its own values , which is distinctive of the academic community in general ? |
| 10 | In classical political thinking , " democracy " was the name not merely of a form of government but of a whole society , and it was habitually associated , by its enemies and critics as well as its friends , with the principle of social equality . |
| 11 | Lord Goff said that it was the denial of choice that was the critical factor , rather than the denial of a form of education that may or may not be available in other of the authority 's schools . |
| 12 | The building , about 1440 , at the Mont-Saint-Michel , of a form of bastion not dissimilar to that to be developed in Italy , underlines how this matter of overcoming the defensive problems created by the development of artillery was being dealt with . |
| 13 | This allows him , for instance , to speculate on the plausibility of a form of reincarnation , which enjoys a large following in the psychic , paganism and the occult . |
| 14 | Finally at the highest level , the limits of reason are exposed when a critique is mounted of a form of thought as such . |
| 15 | A critique of a form of thought will attempt to mark out its location , describe its boundaries , indicate its limitations and bring out its implicit assumptions and any ideological undercurrents . |
| 16 | For external critique is intended to show up the limitations of a form of thought as such . |
| 17 | One example comes from the Sivananasiddhiyar the most important sacred text of a form of Hinduism common among the Tamils of Southern India , Saivism : |
| 18 | The constant narrowing down , redefinition and drawing of ever more refined distinctions lead to a position where the argument has no general significance at all : Greek society , defined in a particular way , represents the advantages of a form of literacy defined in the same way . |
| 19 | Campbell also speaks of a form of loneliness which was a special feature of Jesus ' ministry : the loneliness of the leader . |
| 20 | If economic reform was the ‘ key to all our problems ’ at the outset of Gorbachev 's administration and political reform increasingly the means by which it was to be accomplished , the ultimate objective remained the achievement of a form of socialism which advanced decisively on those that had preceded it . |
| 21 | The tram is one example of a form of transport that flourished and then faded . |
| 22 | She suspects me of a form of vanity in sidling up to the existential questions . |
| 23 | It is a church whose authority lies in its age and its preservation of a form of worship which can be traced back through two millennia . |
| 24 | Its development of a form of NFP harnesses the twin developments of declining scale in printing and growing scale advantages in a global network of information . |
| 25 | The next major item on the University 's agenda for reform is the establishment of a form of quality management and control . |
| 26 | Not only did government growth require little positive commitment , the acceptance of a form of Keynesianism termed by Rose and Peters as one-eyed Keynesianism' , seemed to be telling politicians that public expenditure growth was a good thing . |
| 27 | The Conciliation Project Unit discovered that general adoption of a form of conciliation in family disputes would be more expensive than resolution through the various courts with family jurisdiction . |
| 28 | Concerned specifically with the issue why there is no circularity involved in a justification of deduction which employs deductive reasoning , he contrasts explaining the validity of a form of inference — for which purpose we can use any of our knowledge — with persuading someone of the correctness of a rule — which requires that we avoid circularity . |
| 29 | The GCC states — in the diplomatic as in other fields , generally inclined to support Iraq — had lobbied vigorously during the run-up to the Security Council vote for the emergence of a form of words incorporating censure of Iran . |
| 30 | The , the , the moves towards a form of credit card care , where ambulance workers will be asking you the , the number of your credit card before erm treatment will be given in hospital . |