Example sentences of "[adj] form [prep] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.

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1 Before oil prices increased the most popular form of heating was a paraffin stove despite the smell and danger .
2 A more regular form of distortion was the use of zoom lenses , changing focal length during a shot , in the 1960s .
3 The modern , nuclear form of family was the norm ; large households with an extended range of kin were unknown .
4 Refusal to open the door to any form of devolution was a gamble .
5 Small wonder , then , that even among miners and manufacturing workers the most common form of protest was the food riot .
6 The intellectual form of superiority was the one most accessible to me both at home and at school .
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