‘the fifth form’

‘It plans to do this by reducing four of its year groups from three forms per year to two forms by merging the classes.’

‘they both had form’

‘A month later he was involved in a nightclub fight. And he has form: including spending a night in the cells after being arrested for being drunk and disorderly after a binge in Wimbledon last year.’

‘Hares lie overnight in ‘forms’, which are a kind of above-ground nest.’

‘It was a truck with a projector in the back that they'd back up to the hall, open a flap in the wall and the projector would poke through that. We'd sit on forms watching cowboy movies, I think cowboy movies was all they showed!’

‘The shelter inside was totally dark and one had to grope to find a place to sit on the backless wooden forms.’

‘You fill the forms with stone and concrete, then ‘slip’ the forms up for the next level.’

‘essays in book form’

‘energy in the form of light’

‘she seemed to be on good form’

‘I only spoke to Glenn three weeks ago and he was in fine form and looking forward to the future.’

‘an application form’

‘At the desk Cassie and Sally filled out various forms.’

‘the outward forms of religion’

‘It is true that this general election does still adhere to some of the old forms and conventions of British democracy.’

‘a form of words’

‘The Rev Chris Swift, a parent himself, agonised over a form of words for a situation he hadn't faced before.’

‘A southern taxonomic form is distributed in North America in Pacific drainages from northern Washington north to the Alaska Peninsula.’

‘In the field these two forms looked like distinct taxa, and we wondered if earlier botanists were not correct in recognizing this material as either varietally or specifically distinct.’

‘Passive form oils usually do not leave a dusty layer on the form or the concrete.’

‘After the spread footing pour has set, a concrete pier form is placed on top of the footing.’

‘sponsorship is a form of advertising’

‘Melanoma is a more serious form of skin cancer.’

‘a form is as good as the writer who chooses it’

‘Modern Karakalpak writers have adopted Western literary forms such as novels, short stories, and plays.’

‘an adjectival form’

‘Some examples of words ending in -ful that have no forms in -less are awful, bashful and deceitful.’

‘an interested bystander studying the form’

‘With, of course, no previous form to go on, the weight of money tends to offer significant clues to the outcome.’

‘these videos are a triumph of form over content’

‘Still, the film is undeniably distinctive, although this is due to style as much as form.’

‘his eyes scanned her slender form’

‘Pulling her silk robe more tightly around her naked form, Olivia pads over to her night table to pick up a bottle of body lotion.’

‘an excessive concern for legal form and precedent’

‘Beneath these arguments about legal form lie the wider issues of self-determination.’

‘Epicurus rejected the existence of Platonic forms and an immaterial soul, and he said that the gods have no influence on our lives.’

‘Whitehead sees them as ingredients in an experience and rather similar to Plato's ideal forms.’

‘they are one of the best teams around on current form’

‘Based on the two teams' current form, today's encounter looks set to be close fought and could go either way.’

‘every distinction in meaning is associated with a distinction in form’

‘Sentences of this form are called conditionals, and will concern us a good deal in the next chapter.’

‘the form, colour, and texture of the tree’

‘the flowers of this shrub are remarkable both in form and colour’

‘She spoke very precisely, every word formed and enunciated with perfect diction.’

‘I tried to talk but I couldn't quite concentrate on single words or forming complete sentences at the moment.’

‘Mortimer formed up his troops for the march’

‘I immediately ran away from the aircraft to where the rest of the crew had formed up.’

‘the company was formed in 1982’

‘peasants and miners were formed into a militia’

‘to form a judgement he seeks further information’

‘While the idea was still being formed, however, something happened to him.’

‘A number of other terms have been formed in the past two decades using tourism or tourist as one of the elements.’

‘This was formed in the sixteenth century from the verb disable, but the corresponding adjective abled seems not to have been used at that time.’

‘the women would form supportive friendships’

‘Those who did not like me just let me get on with my life, conversely, I formed some very strong friendships, none of which depended upon answers to the homework or lifts in the car.’

‘the precepts which form the basis of the book’

‘He published this method in 1919, and it also formed the basis of his seminal paper on the scattering of plane electric waves by spheres.’

‘a thick mist was forming all around’

‘He smiled slowly to himself, the plan forming gradually in his mind.’

‘her body was slight and flawlessly formed’

‘Superbly formed and highly expressive, these extraordinary buildings emerge from the most basic of materials, earth and water, and in the harshest of conditions.’

‘the role of the news media in forming public opinion’

‘This leads us to another point in the importance of the legends and folklore in forming and shaping a nation's character.’

‘form the dough into balls’

‘his features formed into a smile of pleasure’