Example sentences of "form [prep] [noun sg] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This hybrid form of organisation was created by the Limited Partnership Act 1907 . |
| 2 | The other form of organisation was dubbed ‘ organic ’ . |
| 3 | With the Bubble Act still in force , such a form of enterprise was permitted only through specific parliamentary enablement . |
| 4 | This means that for every 100 units of energy in the coal which heats the boiler that makes the steam that drives the turbo generator only 30 units of energy in the form of electricity are produced . |
| 5 | Until the mid eighteenth century the language of the Church was based on Old Church Slavonic , but after the Suvorov mission sent by the Synod of Moscow in 1727 ( see above , p. 74 ) a form of Russian was adopted , known as ‘ Serb-Slavonic ’ . |
| 6 | This form of relief is designed to preserve the benefits of the Barbadian tax incentives . |
| 7 | On the other hand , there might be circumstances where an employer would be vicariously liable for a conspiracy involving his servants provided the other requirements of that form of liability are met . |
| 8 | It must be stressed at the outset , lest the importance of this form of liability be exaggerated , that the plaintiffs lost their case because the predominant purpose of the embargo was to promote the interests of the union members rather than to injure the plaintiffs , but their Lordships made it clear that if the predominant purpose of a combination is to injure another in his trade or business or in his other legitimate interests then , if damage results , the tort of conspiracy exists . |
| 9 | Understandably , this form of circuit is called a bridge rectifier . |
| 10 | In discussion of particle sizes a standard form of notation is used . |
| 11 | The breakdown of capitalism and the advent of a new form of society are conceived and explained as the outcome of the way a particular structure — the capitalist mode of production and capitalist society — works , not as the product of a historical process ; and the post-capitalist societies which can be foreseen , or which actually exist , may be as varied as were feudal societies or the absolutist states . |
| 12 | Indeed , many systems of criminal law impose a mandatory sentence for murder ( or whatever the highest form of homicide is called in that system ) . |
| 13 | The only spontaneous applause during the day was for Sir Christopher Booth , who said : ‘ The colleges ought to realise that accreditation is for NHS consultants working alone and that a quite different form of accreditation is needed for research academics working in teams . ’ |
| 14 | Abberley ( 1989 ) argues that the specific form of normality being advocated becomes disabling in itself as it inhibits expressions of difference . |
| 15 | So far as the desktop publisher is concerned there are many packages that can share data without any form of translation being required as well as a few that need some gentle tweaking . |
| 16 | Another form of mimicry was discovered by the English naturalist Henry Bates . |
| 17 | The D form of alanine is found in dermorphin — you have guessed it , the regulatory peptide of ( amphibian ) skin . |
| 18 | It was 1974 before that particular form of discrimination was removed by a new Adoption Act . |
| 19 | After trials in the pilot schools ( see below ) the following form of identification was adopted in the first question in part one : |
| 20 | The over-running and Anglicising of the Highlands after Culloden , when even the traditional form of dress was banned , would soon lead to assimilation , and even though ‘ the inhabitants of mountains form distinct races , and are careful to preserve their genealogies ’ , Johnson concludes without emotion that ‘ while their rocks seclude them from the rest of mankind , and kept them an unaltered and distinctive race … they are now losing their distinction , and hastening to mingle with the general community . ’ |
| 21 | We fully accept that there have been changes in technique during this time , as described earlier , and as table 1 shows , in all sutured ileoanal anastomosis some form of mucosectomy was performed . |
| 22 | The form of government is embodied in the Charter of the Kingdom of the Netherlands , which came into force in 1954 . |
| 23 | The developments producing this form of government were sketched in Chapter 3 . |
| 24 | If forms of life exist whose chemistry is based on silicon rather than carbon , or ammonia rather than water , if creatures are discovered that boil to death at — 100 degrees centigrade , if a form of life is found that is not based on chemistry at all but on electronic reverberating circuits , will there still be any general principle that is true of all life ? |
| 25 | This form of life was shared by the sixth forms of grammar schools and the universities to which their students proceeded , and it did not greatly differ whether the frame of reference was ‘ Cambridge ’ or ‘ Oxford ’ , or to import an Arnoldian variation on this model , Hebraic or Hellenic , directed towards ‘ criticism ’ or ‘ appreciation ’ . |
| 26 | The extreme of critical judgement is to destroy the work concerned , as bulldozers destroyed a Russian exhibition of experimental art in 1974 ; or to forbid an artist to work , as was the practice in National Socialist Germany , where another form of criticism was used in 1937 by making an exhibition of art to be repudiated by its visitors . |
| 27 | Over the last decade the political dynamic of our society has changed so much , the social fabric has been so profoundly ravished that a different form of theatre is called for |
| 28 | I understand John McGrath 's sentiments but over the last decade or so the political dynamic of our society has changed so much , the social fabric has been so profoundly ravished that a different form of theatre is called for . ’ |
| 29 | This form of trespass is known as continuing trespass , as the trespass continues as long as the offending article remains on the land . |
| 30 | A modified form of B-tree is used in IBM 's VSAM files , to be discussed later in the chapter . |