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‘A phase can be formative.’

[⟨det phase.n⟩ formative.a]

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Primitive Methodist workers played an important role in the formative phase of the Trade Union movement in England.
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Landa Jocano refers to the earliest noticeable stage in the development of proto – Philippine societies as the “Formative Phase”.
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He also worked for Norsk Hydro, as a consultant to Kristian Birkeland, from 1906 to 1909, in that company’s formative phase.
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Today nanotechnology is still in a formative phase – not unlike the condition of computer science in the 1960s or biotechnology in the 1980s.
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It can be traced right back to the formative phase of Islam.
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The primary call of the Apostles was the Great Commission and to shepherd the Church through its formative phase.
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Even this brief analysis of Darwin’s biological theorizing in these early years suggests the following conclusions about the nature of his science in its formative phase.
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This was the formative phase in the evolution of early Hindu pantheons.
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Throughout this formative phase of the Zhang Sanfeng legend there is no mention of Zhang’s involvement with martial arts. [3] This lack of comment is significant as it was common practice to include this type of information in dynastic history biographies.
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The “Thule Society” originated as an offshoot of the “Germanenorden” in 1917, and notoriously became associated with the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei in 1919 and thus involved in the formative phase of the Nazi Party.
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In the British National Corpus:

A Labour government under Harold Wilson was in office until June 197) which was the vital, formative phase of the Ulster crisis.
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As the war spanned most of Mulisch’s formative phase, it had a defining influence on his life and work.
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The methods of formative and design experiments are examined with specific questions discussed, such as how to set up an appropriate site for research, when the formative phase should end, and troubleshooting guidelines.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Such approaches are still in the formative phase of the adoption curve, particularly in the enterprise, so I see this is an investment for the future for IBM.
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L1551 IRS5), FUor events probably occur at many different stages in the early, formative phase of a star’s life, and lends support to the idea that FUor outbursts are repetitive like their shorter – lived relatives occurring in EXor eruptive variables.
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This book explores the formative phase in Irish immigration history, from 1600 to 1800, when continental Europe was the main destination for tens of thousands of Irish migrants.
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That’s fine when it’s entertainment, but when you’re talking about the formative phase of the Reagan legacy formation, I think that it’s important that we get things right.
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While it is postulated that occult elements played an important role in the formative phase of Nazism, and of the SS in particular, after his rise to power Adolf Hitler discouraged such pursuits.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Pathophysiology of calcifying tendinitis The disease progresses through correlating pathologic and clinical stages: Formative phase: As a consequence of an unknown trigger, a portion of the tendon undergoes fibrocartilaginous transformation, and calcification occurs in the transformed tissue.
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Queried on 2013-05-23.