Example sentences of "[prep] the form [prep] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But outside the heart of the wood the Green Men brought berries and fertility in the form of birds to the villages and farms of the people . |
| 2 | His activities had been known to some antislavery figures long before , but in 1814 his Mitigation of Slavery was published along with an extensive and favourable account by the Scots abolitionist William Dickson in the form of Letters to Thomas Clarkson . |
| 3 | But being outside the pressures of life in the city he has time to think , and to formulate his thoughts on all the issues of the day in the form of letters to the editors of the more influential newspapers . |
| 4 | ‘ The Color Purple ’ is written in the form of letters to God but transcribes as a diary which is a style close to the way Celie speaks , although her later writing matures , it does not lose its frank appeal ! |
| 5 | The evidence is undeniably circumstantial ; the rare examples of actual letting usually come in the form of licences to demise . |
| 6 | The understandable concentration of research on the needy and on the failures of community support meant that little attention was paid to the positive contribution to the community made by many older people in the form of services to family and community . |
| 7 | Simple restitution by way of returning expropriated lands and property had been ruled out on practical grounds , and instead claimants would receive compensation in the form of vouchers to be used to buy privatized state property ( the scheme was designed to limit the government 's cash liability ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This year the International Committee on Wound Management developed a consensus statement on the subject of wound healing in the form of answers to several questions . |
| 10 | Legal advice , in the form of answers to readers ' questions , is also contained in the magazines , and there are statements of law in other CA publications . |
| 11 | The direct costs of the take-over process , in the form of fees to banks and professional advisers , have already been noted . |
| 12 | When Margaret died in 1790 , she bequeathed Sunk Island in the form of shares to a bewildering number of relatives , and as she died childless , here the name ‘ Gylby ’ dies out . |
| 13 | While the scheme makes some provision for grants , most of the payments are in the form of loans to those deemed eligible and able to meet the repayments . |
| 14 | Andrei Lukanov , Bulgaria 's last Prime Minister under the communist regime , was arrested on July 9 , accused of misappropriation of funds in the form of loans to communist parties in developing countries . |
| 15 | On the day of the Kronstadt uprising , 23 February 1921 , Lenin appealed to the Ukraine to step up its aid , in the form of foodstuffs to the workers of Petrograd and Moscow . |
| 16 | Such lists will embody both specific decisions concerning preferred words and also , by example , decisions relating to the form of words to be used ( for example , singular or plural , nouns or adjectives ) . |