Example sentences of "the form [prep] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Israel would receive ECU150,000,000 in the form of balance-of-payments loans , and the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip would receive the remainder in the form of grants to be disbursed through banks and agri-export and commercial organizations . |
| 2 | RCI supplies sales automation software for the AS/400 and Unix markets , but has undergone restructuring in the form of management changes and product rationalisation . |
| 3 | A growth in divestment was a prominent feature of the 1980's , with parent companies making disposals both to other groups and to existing managers in the form of management buy-outs . |
| 4 | The definitions contain encyclopaedic information , syntactic information and semantic information in the form of sense relations that describe the relationship of any one word to a number of others . |
| 5 | This was achieved , however , on the basis of enormous subsidies — both direct in the form of support prices and indirect in the form of a whole range of grants and allowances — which sustained a high-cost agriculture when judged in international terms . |
| 6 | There is agreement , certainly in the mental health field ( Huxley , 1991a ) that case management works best when its purpose is clearly articulated in the form of service goals ; the outcome measures used actually assess progress in these target areas ; the theoretical model and content of the programme are consistent with the service goals ; and case management is focused on a narrowly defined target group of those most in need . |
| 7 | Most of this housing took the form of Tyneside flats , an unusual type of construction in which what appears to be one reasonably large terrace house of a kind very commonly built in industrial cities in Northern England in the late nineteenth century , is in fact two flats . |
| 8 | Well , we have seen electrical cars in the form of milk floats for many years , and of course they 're particularly suited to intermittent use , stopping and starting every few yards . |
| 9 | Much of the White Paper 's legislation is in the form of framework directives which provide a basis for future detailed legislation . |
| 10 | There was a very restricted physical education ‘ establishment ’ in the form of specialist colleges for teacher-training . |
| 11 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |
| 12 | Only then will it be possible to suggest that much of the invisible ownership landscape is there in the form of landscape features and is of greater antiquity than has been formerly thought . |
| 13 | The theory is based on the underlying concept of conditional independence which applies equally to discrete data summarised in the form of contingency tables and to continuous data summarised by regression and correlation coefficients . |
| 14 | Bacteria in the root nodules of legumes ( Rhizobium ) have the capacity to fix nitrogen from the air , which then becomes available for use by the host plant in the form of ammonium compounds . |
| 15 | The chanting had taken on the form of animal howls and disgusting collections of words screamed out by the blood-frenzied mob . |
| 16 | Nicknames assumed ( and still assume ) many forms — they can be logical or illogical — some describing physical peculiarities , others mental or moral qualities ; they may take the form of animal names , being thus descriptive of appearance or disposition . |
| 17 | A voire dire was held concerning the admissibility of evidence intended to be called by the prosecution , namely , evidence in the form of video tapes and sound recordings obtained by undercover police officers in a bogus jeweller 's shop , purporting to be willing to purchase stolen property and conversations and statements arising therefrom . |
| 18 | The investment was worth £500,000 and was made in the form of preference shares . |
| 19 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Out of a total of 15 million investment provided by a number of financial institutions , the SDA contributed £500,000 in the form of preference shares . |
| 20 | Different classes of share will be created and issued by the company to the management and the investors in order : ( a ) to allow a large share capital to be created without unduly diluting the management 's interest ; ( b ) to reduce the investors ' risk by providing a part of the share capital to be in the form of preference shares , which will enable the company to redeem as quickly as the cash flow and profits allow ; ( c ) to set up a " ratchet " mechanism which will allow for the management shareholding to increase with the success of the company . |
| 21 | Preference shares still enable accepting shareholders to obtain roll-over relief and defer the charge to tax on capital gains but at the same time offer current fixed income in the form of preference dividends . |
| 22 | Communication with the customer/user takes the form of operating instructions which are contained in an instruction book . |
| 23 | Today they give us a meagre amount of the cash which they had previously taken off us in the form of grant cutbacks , ’ he said . |
| 24 | In return they receive interest on their shares , and a dividend on their purchases in the form of trading stamps . |
| 25 | From 1841 onwards much more information is available in the form of census enumerators ' books . |
| 26 | Even where decentralized budgeting projects have been introduced , these have often taken the form of pilot projects or trials ( Progress in Financial Management in Government Departments , 1984 , especially Appendix 2 ) , whilst the authority delegated to budget holders has often been severely constrained ( not least by centrally determined manpower ceilings and pay scales ) . |
| 27 | Providing additional resources for the state in the form of excise duties . |
| 28 | Bonds may be registered or they may be issued in the form of bearer securities . |
| 29 | The answer is that relativity and quantum mechanics allow matter to be created out of energy in the form of particle/antiparticle pairs . |
| 30 | The answer is that , in quantum theory , particles can be created out of energy in the form of particle/antiparticle pairs . |