Example sentences of "the form [prep] [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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1 | It came in the form of imports from the ports of Dunkirk , Le Tréport , Dieppe , and Rouen , or from home-grown stocks dispatched from stations in the Vexin , Valois , and Picardy . |
2 | Yet what remains of first-century jurists in the form of quotations from their works fits well with Gaius ' account . |
3 | ICI has found a successful way of dealing with this waste without causing any harm to the public in the form of emissions from incineration , so perhaps there is good news to come . |
4 | The text takes the form of extracts from the author 's holiday diaries between 1946 and 1990 and reflects on changes over that period . |
5 | This occasionally resulted in amendments — more often it took the form of assurances from ministers about future intentions . |
6 | Campaigners against the project point out that a mixture of economic recession and growing enthusiasm for energy efficiency may deprive Hydro-Quebec of the bulk of its potential revenue from the scheme , in the form of orders from US power supply companies , who are believed to be reconsidering the need to import power from Canada . |
7 | And that , in turn , is likely to feed back on the Government in the form of pressures from the most irresistible of all Tory constituencies , the City . |
8 | Its programme was brief and it was circulated in the form of points from a petition to the three " progressive " Parties . |