Example sentences of "form of [noun] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They challenge two assumptions commonly made , either implicitly or explicitly , in conventional organisation theory : ( a ) that an institution adopts that form of organisation which best fits its technology , environment , and other contingent factors , the ‘ best fit ’ being in terms of that organisation structure most suited to co-ordinating the tasks performed by members of that institution ; ( b ) that members of the institution have entered freely into a contract with that institution to provide a service to that institution in return for reward , and that they accept as legitimate both the institutional goals and the means of co-ordination used to achieve those goals ( rational/legal authority ) . |
| 2 | They see those practitioners of cruelty in their laboratories , those operators in the slaughter houses , as only the most extreme example of an omnipresent form of alienation which unfortunately embraces almost all human beings today . |
| 3 | As these works illustrate , a third distinguishing feature of modernism is an interest in the nature and form of art which occasionally extends , self-reflexively , towards the novel 's scrutiny of its own strategies . |
| 4 | The argument is , therefore , that a form of behaviour which effectively negotiates the end of a conflict can be evolutionarily stable . |
| 5 | These may take the form of problems which even if proved empirically to influence resource needs do so in such particular , local , and sometimes subtle ways that statistical models are unlikely to be sensitive enough to be helpful . |
| 6 | This came about through the fact that although Mondrian made use of the Cubist grid-system of Composition , he had already begun to develop a new form of painting which finally culminated during the war in the purely abstract idiom of De Stijl and Neo-Plasticism . |
| 7 | Hegel articulates a philosophical structure of the appropriation of the other as a form of knowledge which uncannily simulates the project of nineteenth-century imperialism ; the construction of knowledges which all operate through forms of expropriation and incorporation of the other mimics it a conceptual level the geographical and economic absorption of the non-European world by the West . |
| 8 | A form of activity which clearly comes under the heading of subtle and covert resistance is industrial sabotage . |
| 9 | In the same year , the disciple known as James , brother of John , was arrested and beheaded — a form of execution which only the Romans were allowed to perform . |
| 10 | It indicates the means whereby a form of Christianity which entirely circumvented the Pauline orthodoxy of Rome began to establish itself in Western Europe . |
| 11 | But if we do not take their most far-reaching claims too seriously , and if we attempt to combine their insights with those stemming from more conventional social science , we can develop a form of sociology which once more has the extensive scope of the early pioneering studies . |
| 12 | During the 14th century , Japanese poets began to develop the form of verse we now call the haiku . |
| 13 | It is this form of drama which best lends itself to topic work and intercurricular project work . |
| 14 | Both these instances are of verbal trickery , using a form of words which most often have one meaning but which , in strict logic , can have another . |
| 15 | So ended the formal history of the Angevin dominions — Henry III and his successors were to retain only their south-western French lands de jure and de facto , held as fiefs of the French crown in liege homage , a form of tenure which normally implied feudal service . |