Example sentences of "[verb] to some form " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways the idea of a coal and steel community took off because people committed to some form of common future for Western Europe occupied positions of authority in several countries : Schuman , Monnet and others in France , Adenauer in West Germany , Alcide de Gasperi and Carlo Sforza in Italy , Paul-Henri Spaak in Belgium , and Joseph Beck in Luxembourg . |
| 2 | There ought to be a right to protest in public , it might be argued , and where the bona fide exercise of this right happens to lead to some form of disorder , it is wrong to visit the perpetrators with severe sanctions . |
| 3 | Penetration in many instances is not related to a property of the organism itself , in most instances it 's re related to some form of injury in which the organism is moved from it 's normal skin location to a deep tissue location . |
| 4 | For example , it is helpful to include a continuous on-screen message to tell a user where they are , particularly if it can refer to some form of structural hierarchy in the information . |
| 5 | The protest had to be contained and drawn to some form of conclusion without any further loss of face or foreign investment . |
| 6 | There were suggestions that the Khartoum government might now be willing to contemplate secession for the south , eventually leading to some form of federation with the north . |
| 7 | There is a set of rules which inform and direct human behaviour , and the transgression of any of these usually leads to some form of superhuman intervention in the form of illness and mishap . |
| 8 | I am sure , however , that the idea of the entire SBG being given away or sold to some form of socialised ownership would not be too popular in that quarter . |
| 9 | The basic question is whether the reports , research results , anecdotal evidence and folklore refer to some form of known energy which can be easily integrated into the fund of established knowledge , or whether they indicate some other , more mysterious , perhaps more fundamental , energy , which operates in an altogether different way . |
| 10 | Without turn-out , tutus and pointe shoes the dancers ' bodies still have the same physical apparatus as before and if bodies are to dance at all they must submit to some form of discipline . |
| 11 | Text recognition systems developed to date have been mainly concerned with the pattern recognition level , and the use of higher level information is often restricted to some form of lexical analysis . |
| 12 | Typical of these is the use of hidden cameras linked to some form of eye-scan monitor so that a reader left in a waiting room with a magazine can be watched , to see how the magazine is read and which bits of a particular page or ad are most carefully looked at . |
| 13 | Although many deaths arise from natural causes , and many others from illnesses and diseases , each year sees a large number of deaths caused by ‘ accidents ’ , and also a number caused by acts or omissions which amount to some form of homicide in English law . |
| 14 | Two thirds of the appeal decision letters referred to some form of policy , and in these cases the policy usually became the main determinant of the outcome of the appeal ; only 26 per cent of such appeals were successful . |
| 15 | The Chinese want to put pressure on Vietnam , and Peking has made clear that it will continue sending arms until the Vietnamese-installed government of Hun Sen agrees to some form of power-sharing that includes the Khmer Rouge . |
| 16 | She has often darkly alluded to some form of abuse in her own formative years , and there 's a strong sense that she 's singing these songs to someone in particular . |
| 17 | Most social anthropologists probably adhere to some form of ‘ soft ’ cultural relativism , whereby the thrust of explanation of human ideas and behaviour is placed within the framework of the particular sociocultural institutions of a society . |
| 18 | This was arranged so that most projects started with an introduction based upon ‘ extant material , whether it 's fine art , or fabric design or whatever ’ , then through analysis and exploration of the ideas and processes involved to some form of critical studies and evaluation , so that : |
| 19 | She reckons that more than 70% of schoolgirls are subjected to some form of sexual harassment by their male teachers , and that a significant number are physically exploited or even raped . |
| 20 | This brief résumé of methods of allocation omits an important area which is rarely controlled through financial allocation , yet which certainly needs to be subjected to some form of central control . |
| 21 | There are many recorded instances of mass deaths of lemmings after a phase of population expansion , when they have apparently become subjected to some form of social stress that leads to their attempting to migrate across impassable barriers ( Elton , 1942 ) . |
| 22 | The process of report and interrogation took quite a time , and Rostov began to suspect that if he and the others were to be subjected to some form of tribunal before their fate was decided , then at least it would pass for a fair one . |
| 23 | Changing to some form of European or American insurance system would significantly increase costs . |
| 24 | Accordingly , a substantial number of today 's retirement pensioners need to claim assistance and submit to some form of test of need . |
| 25 | Without it there could be a free for all and if abolition goes through the employers may well find themselves having to resort to some form of cooperative or wages club in its place . |
| 26 | And are n't most mothers in the 90s planning to return to some form of work outside the home by the time their youngest child is at school full-time ? |
| 27 | The unwillingness to move to some form of more powerful and comprehensive agency in Britain along the lines of the Quality Commission proposed by the Labour Party ( Cook 1990 ) has left quality issues largely in the hands of the professionals . |
| 28 | If this fails , the union can turn to some form of industrial action . |
| 29 | In contrast to other schools of Judaism , they seem to have subscribed to some form of reincarnation . |
| 30 | All four of the major political forces supporting the Nationalist military effort subscribed to some form of totalitarianism , while references to " unity " and " continuity " suggested that a return to the status quo prior to 1931 was envisaged . |