Collocations withform
These are words often used in combination withform.
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abbreviated form
Broadcasting directly to a personal pager again requires natural language, but in a far more abbreviated form to allow for a pager's limited message length.
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abstract form
Elementary pattern matching may therefore be recast in abstract form, with a semantics given by translation.
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acceptable form
I'd love to create a form, an acceptable form, where people can sing and talk and it can be drama and music.
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accepted form
Situational variation has long been an accepted form of intra-lingual variation in speech act realisations.
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advanced form
Although departementalisation was considered an advanced form of political integration, the costs of an assimilationist policy became palpable in the 1950s and 1960s.
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aggressive form
This seems an important finding: cooperation as a rule of conduct in social dilemmas can resist subversive, defectionist deviations provided it comes in an aggressive form.
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alien form
He also has an alien form which is covered by his human form to keep his secret.
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altered form
The reader learns that apomixis can be viewed as an altered form of sexuality that might involve paternal gene silencing.
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alternate form
However, in this instance strophic form is the predominant component, as opposed to the more equally weighted elements in alternate form.
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alternative form
An alternative form of prophylaxis is to use an antiviral agent such as amantadine or rimantadine.
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archaic form
Our archaic form of railway valuation has been extremely slipshod, ever since it first existed.
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architectural form
These built upon now established traditions of architectural form and language and reached an ordered harmony; genius loci and aura are thus made evident.
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basic form
In its most basic form the viable system model resembles a simple flow chart connecting the five levels of the system hierarchy.
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benign form
It is, of course, a benign form of deception, but one voluntarily accepted.
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capsule form
In capsule form, he made a very satisfactory case for public ownership.
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census form
Obviously, the census form is still shaped by politics and ideology as much as by analysts' desire for accurate and complete data.
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classical form
In turn, the disciplines in their classical form have become stabilized by the system of occupational roles.
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common form
Intercommunal or inter-ethnic ones, waged over natural resources, are a common form.
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completed form
This is valuable because programs in completed form are much easier to work with in the proofs we need to do.
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concentrated form
Whatever the various reasons, it is clear from the archives that patronage correspondence does not tend to survive, at least in concentrated form.
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concrete form
His recent concrete form is the first he has actually built.
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consent form
Only nine subjects actively refused to participate in the study; the others were lost to follow-up or failed to return the consent form.
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corporeal form
However, we always know that the characters and other elements of the story are symbols, the embodiment of ideas and truths which otherwise would not have a corporeal form.
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crude form
In light of this, the preceding tune emerges as a deliberately crude form of rustic style.
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different form
To verify this condition, it is convenient to rewrite it in a slightly different form.
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distinct form
Such power operates particularly strongly on the body, forming a distinct form of power: bio-power.
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distinctive form
Each of the clusters represents a distinctive form of organizing online.
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diverse form
An expansion of higher education—albeit of a more diverse form than we have traditionally seen—is to be welcomed.
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dominant form
The dominant form of expression, clustered bacterial cells arranged in an abundant matrix, was recorded after 2 days of incubation without shaking.
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entry form
If you have asked us on the entry form for an estimate of the cost of our making these improvements, we will provide one at the same time.
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evaluation form
With respect to this study, the reliability or consistency of the individual completing the evaluation form was called into question.
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expressive forms
Nevertheless, throughout the world, music is one of the most ubiquitous expressive forms available to all kinds of peoples.
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extreme form
In its extreme form scabies can develop into a severe hyperkeratotic form where several thousands of mites can be found in the lesions.
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feminine form
Morphologically, the feminine form is unmarked, and the masculine form is the derived/marked form.
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final form
This is the large, long substructure of the final form, with rounded corners and two tiers and a nine-step central staircase.
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form of advertising
This is an analysis of popular culture in the form of advertising slogans and how people react to them.
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form of aggression
A perception that the physician has somehow cheated on that expected reciprocation is prone to evoke a most strident form of aggression.
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form of arthritis
Those people—for example, someone who had a very severe form of arthritis—would easily satisfy the test.
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form of bias
The difference may be seen as a form of bias against the public sector investments that are required to balance out more indirect costs than private investments have to do.
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form of blackmail
Are we willing to reduce the sentence of an offender if he accepts the operation, or is this a form of blackmail?
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form of cancer
There are no confirmed findings demonstrating the protective effects of high consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables against this form of cancer.
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form of capitalism
In the years of opposition, the focus of the main opposition critique was not market capitalism per se, but rather the bureaucratic authoritarian form of capitalism.
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form of censorship
I utterly reject this dictatorial concept, which is only another form of censorship.
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form of coercion
They opposed any form of coercion, including measures directed at all citizens and at physicians.
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form of colonialism
This awareness, in turn, invites critical appreciation of the fact that development cannot be reduced to a different form of colonialism or presented as the tyranny of modernity.
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form of communication
This indicates that the twins were clearly able and willing to engage in this more complex form of communication.
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form of currency
Money is typically redeemable in cash, in the form of currency, but currency is not essential to the existence or functioning of money.
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form of decoration
This form of decoration is often used for panels or on floors, but is especially effective on curved surfaces, such as ceilings and vaults.
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form of dementia
Vascular dementia may be the most common form of dementia in the elderly.
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form of discrimination
At the same time, however, a new form of discrimination has been introduced, because nursery-school teachers may now retire at age 56 years.
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form of dividend
They distort the process of company management because they encourage short-term consumption in the form of dividend payments, instead of long-term investment.
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form of domination
Some societies had historical experience of tribute and accepted taxation as a consequence of a new form of domination.
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form of entertainment
In some respects, the anthologies constitute a poignant, sober form of entertainment wrapped within a framework of moral protest.
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form of exercise
Like any form of exercise, political conversation gains in effectiveness the more it is engaged in.
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form of exploitation
And because this very basic norm of mutually advantageous co-operation is wilfully broken, we say that such free-riding constitutes a form of exploitation.
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form of expression
The dominant form of expression, clustered bacterial cells arranged in an abundant matrix, was recorded after 2 days of incubation without shaking.
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form of gambling
Like any other form of gambling, it is a very inefficient way of raising money.
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form of governance
In adopting a traditional state power, the federal government was adopting an utterly different form of governance and citizenship.
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form of grant
The need for an additional incentive in the form of grant for inland clearance depôts, including depôts serving development areas, is still under consideration.
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form of harassment
The regulations for deductions from benefits if additional income is earned through employment are regarded as a form of harassment.
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form of identification
Shame, then, seems to pre-suppose some form of identification.
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form of injustice
I believe that if we are against any form of injustice we should stand forthright and state the things in which we believe.
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form of inquiry
Not only did the new science of chemistry require conformity regarding the form of inquiry and outcome as the price of admission to the discipline.
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form of insanity
Influenced by medical opinion, which was inclined to view drunkenness as a temporary form of insanity, state officials insisted on normal burial.
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form of intimidation
A mass of people on a picket line is itself a formidable form of intimidation.
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form of leisure
The form of leisure can, of course, enhance people's lives, and enable them to live a fuller life.
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form of manipulation
A particularly striking example of this form of manipulation is the treatment of food retailers within the manuscript.
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form of mediation
Basically, a coordination artifact entails a form of mediation among the agents using it, and effectively embeds and enacts some coordination policies.
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form of meditation
His 'fragmentary and inconclusive' narration is a 'form of meditation on history and the passage of time' (ibid.).
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form of nationalism
Can we think of a form of nationalism that can respect the priority of universal justice while retaining much of what is morally significant about nationalism?
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form of oppression
Given the often terrifyingly eventful lives that our participants had led, the daily routines of education and employment could seem at best unexciting and at worst another form of oppression.
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form of ownership
The manipulation of images becomes a form of ownership facilitating the process by which they are collected and installed within personal systems of meaning.
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form of participation
However, before assuming that this is the case it is worth comparing officeholding with another form of participation.
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form of pollution
Second, the natural dissipation of pollution stocks is also wealth-creating, in the sense that there is a decreasing liability in the national balance sheet in the form of pollution stocks.
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form of prejudice
The difference between more harsh forms of prejudice is that this style of speech seems appropriate and relevant ingrained in the belief that it does no real harm.
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form of protectionism
Based on the concept of allocative efficiency, standard trade theory regards regionalism as a form of protectionism.
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form of protest
The central form of protest is no longer political but aesthetic - the capacity to apprehend differently, to create a different cognitive map.
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form of psychotherapy
When the treatments to be compared in a trial are not all chemical but include, for example, some form of psychotherapy, these precise techniques are not easily applicable.
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form of punishment
Nine and a half years in solitary confinement is a barbarous form of punishment.
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form of radiation
We are now in connection with many people who are suffering from this form of radiation.
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form of rebellion
By the latter, the report means those who continue with a particular form of rebellion, or who continue to react against their environment.
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form of recreation
Their only pleasures are drink and tobacco, the former being subjected to temperance campaigns to remove even this form of recreation from the workers' lives.
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form of relaxation
Another form of relaxation therapy is the celebration of the seasons with monthly events.
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form of repression
But the general futility of internment as a form of repression was actively shown on that occasion.
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form of resistance
The use of weighted clothing is a form of resistance training, generally a kind of weight training.
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form of retaliation
I hope that it will not be necessary to have recourse to any form of retaliation.
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form of retribution
There are also more severe cases of xiwajenaq, also often involving falls, that are interpreted as a form of retribution.
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form of self-expression
Composition is a powerful form of self-expression in the individual and this should be at the centre of our work.
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form of socialism
They certainly were not advocating some form of socialism or anarchism.
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form of solidarity
In the absence of powerful dissenting voices, they have even been able to present this as a form of solidarity with the 'socially excluded'.
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form of taxation
Paradoxically, then, social democracy, when combined with high levels of corporatism, ends up using a regressive form of taxation more than we would expect.
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form of therapy
The ideas we reject are not nonsense or neurotically conceived pseudo-ideas per se which philosophy as a form of therapy should cure.
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form of transportation
Trustworthiness of the engineers was also paramount in attempts to establish railway locomotives as a safe, reliable, and cheap form of transportation.
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form of tuberculosis
I should also like to call attention to a somewhat neglected form of tuberculosis, that is lupus, or tuberculosis of the skin.
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form of tyranny
Another panelist observed that many people see globalization as a form of tyranny, and as such, may be on the verge of collapse.
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form of warfare
Everybody will wish to express his sympathy with and gratitude to the troops in the area in this very unpleasant form of warfare.
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form of worship
It is a kind of meditative offering, a form of worship, replete with feeling.
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functional form
This demonstrates one of the primary advantages of specifying a problem in functional form, that of its simplicity.
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generic form
This is not surprising if it is true that the former signals a generic form of figurative resemblance between semantic domains.
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geometric form
For example, a simple sketch can be used to access knowledge-based systems such as simulation programs, case libraries, or geometric form making.
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grammatical form
Second, clarification requests must have the power to focus the child's attention on the grammatical form of his or her speech.
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hybrid form
A third, hybrid form is a doubled construction.
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ideal form
The majority of societies regard polygyny (multiple wives) as the ideal form of marriage.
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in manuscript form
These were in addition to the list of tracts chiefly on anatomy and surgery that he composed and circulated to students in manuscript form.
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insidious form
Meanwhile, an insidious form of infiltration is going on.
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intermediate form
We find an intermediate form of the demagnetization constraint and prove that the intermediate form dominates the original demagnetization constraint.
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larval form
The primary function of this larval form is to serve as a brood chamber for the next stage, or stages, in the parasite's life cycle.
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lethal form
Our regulations still ignore this ubiquitous and lethal form of pollution while wasting millions of pounds controlling pollutants of far less consequence.
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linguistic form
Narrativity is a type of discourse with which temporal existence, temporality in existence, is transformed into a linguistic form.
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liquid form
In its liquid form, it has played an essential part in the appearance, development and maintenance of terrestrial life.
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literary form
There are comparisons across time and across national border, across literary form and musical style.
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mild form
A case where such a mild form of inbreeding could be crucial is when mutations are extremely recessive.
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modified form
Ternary words are interpreted and handled as tuples in binary modified form, with the zeroes playing the role of commas.
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mutant form
However, in many applications, a null allele is not the most physiologically relevant mutant form of the gene.
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myriad forms
Is this process entirely culturally mediated and, if so, how to explain the divergences between the ultimate, myriad forms which manifest themselves as identity?
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narrative form
Narrative form integrates situations and context, and less salient cues, to infer whether an emotion indicates suffering or something else.
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novel form
It may also be due to the fact that it was a relatively novel form of performance for her.
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organic form
This gave quite an organic form with a clear directionality.
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organizational form
In this case, because the organizational form is so rare, it is not widely considered the natural or customary way to achieve collective ends.
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original form
However, not only were the plays translated, they were also severely adapted and modified, so much so that they sometimes barely resemble their original form.
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outward form
His was a figure of tremendous, repressed pain; his outward form muffled a raucous, screaming silence.
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parallel form
For example, the parallel form may be advantageous when designing a filter with multiple passband.
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particular form
The vast majority of respondents indicated that they had never engaged in this particular form of political participation.
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peculiar form
This peculiar form of presentation is not the product of recent journalistic trends.
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pill form
People are extracting the substance, putting it into pill form and selling it over the counter.
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plural form
Thus, these forms are to a certain extent morphologically integrated, although this is only visible in the plural form.
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poetic form
Of all the critics here, he is the most attentive to poetic form as having its own, moving agency.
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potent form
Although the language of equal opportunity is pervasive, the ideals of democratization may nevertheless operate as a potent form of silencing with variable results.
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predominant form
The predominant form of land use, livestock raising, is compatible with wildlife conservation.
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preferred form
Locationals are the preferred form, and no restrictions were observed on their use in introducing referents.
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present form
Although in its present form the system is quite reasonable for most routine surgery, it is far from perfect.
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prevalent form
The simple family was the most prevalent form and constituted about 47 per cent of households.
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primitive form
According to the panexperientialist, the primitive form may be something so simple that we would hardly recognize it as consciousness at all.
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proper form
Note: the manuscript will be returned if not in proper form.
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pure form
Such an approach would be a fairly pure form of political or moral philosophy.
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rare form
It is a rare form characterized by progressive deformation which begins in-utero.
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registration form
Each participant was asked to complete a registration form on arrival at the focus group, to obtain some basic demographic and lifestyle details.
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revised form
This is an extended and revised form of the paper, in which a new section on viruses has been added.
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rudimentary form
But law in the most rudimentary form requires sanctions,37 and the stakeholders lacked the power to punish.
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sculptural form
Where possible, furniture stands forward from the walls and up off the floor, giving it sculptural form.
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severe form
Several of the host stars have evolved onto either the subgiant or giant branch, and planets in those systems are undergoing a rather severe form of global warming.
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simple form
The first is the ability to replicate, possibly with poor accuracy and perhaps only in a simple form, with a single pair of bases.
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simplified form
This simple model presents the key features of any larger construct, albeit in spare and highly simplified form.
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singular form
First, the algebraically singular form of 0 4.1 seems out of the question here.
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sonata form
Even the sonata form is included in the primary school final year's textbook, together with various trends of the 20th century history of music.
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specialized form
The claim is not that all specialized cognitive adaptations are devoid of learning, but that many are subject to their own specialized form of learning.
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standardized form
The selected articles were reviewed and data extracted on to a standardized form.
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substantial form
The form of the body is a substantial form.
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subtle form
The sound of the voice is the result of bodily movements in their most subtle form.
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sustainable form
These concerns are driving demand for a more sustainable form of agriculture.
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tangible form
That adds up to about £100 million of capital which is already committed and would go ahead in a visible and tangible form.
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three-dimensional form
It will take its full three-dimensional form, rather than its current two-dimensional form.
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traditional form
I don't think the traditional form of theatre means anything any longer.
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transitional form
It became nationally known before 1937 as a centre of the cotton (and rayon) weaving industry developed through using iron-gear looms, a transitional form of technology.
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variant form
Women had little choice in selecting their partner anyway and abduction could be considered a variant form of the more usual arranged marriage.
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varied form
It was assumed that the varied form of the research would make the results more reliable.
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virulent form
They nevertheless continued to lurk as 'costs' of state formation and re-emerged in virulent form in the changed circumstances of the 1930s.
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written form
Note, however, the colloquial spoken/written form outa for out of, where the two parts are contracted into a simple preposition.
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