Modifies a noun

• qualification: Coming from an inner city area of Bradford, Mohammed left school with no formal qualifications.

• complaint: His belief the decision had been taken inappropriately formed the basis of his second formal complaint.

• examination: Assessment is spread throughout the course, and there are no formal examinations.

• procedure: For these cases there is a formal procedure that may be invoked.

• approval: They receive regular feedback and verify the data prior to formal approval.

• agreement: A formal legal agreement should be entered into with the telecommunications company.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: It is a consciousness whose problems are purely formal or technical, with precisely definable solutions.

• fairly: Business: Business is conducted in a fairly formal manner and a smart appearance is important.

• rather: Such Lagrangians, and their accompanying equations, can seem rather formal.

• relatively: The process can be very informal or relatively formal depending on the state of the application and the relationships established between the participants.

• highly: Much could be said about how programming languages, which are highly formal, work to propitiate desire.

• quite: Business: Austrians are quite formal in their business dealings.

Used with adjective complement

• have: Most professional bodies have formal CPD schemes in place.

• use: In specifying the conceptual schema you can use formal looking statements and diagrams, such as in Figure 6.1.

• seem: Such Lagrangians, and their accompanying equations, can seem rather formal.

• seek: Any firm seeking formal SII accreditation of its existing CPD scheme needs to go through the three stages of the application process.

• remain: Pressure of student numbers has helped to ensure that teaching methods remain formal.

• write: The written English children used would have been say writing formal thank you letters for Christmas presents and passing cryptic notes around the classroom.