Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) Determinacy I turn now to another basic logical condition of meaningfulness of describing something as an ontological existent . |
| 2 | ‘ You mean you 're grateful to her for sending someone with an ulterior motive ? ’ |
| 3 | This is not part of the project plan but an aid to the project leader in creating one with an adequate safety margin . |
| 4 | There are at least two other central issues that must be discussed before we can obtain a clearer insight into what is involved in regarding something as an ontological existent . |
| 5 | It is then not so much the distinction between names and descriptions as the distinction between the function of naming and the function of describing that gives some indication as to what is involved in positing something as an ontological existent . |
| 6 | Yet more clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent we are in effect committed to accepting that this something , at any given time , can be rightfully claimed to belong to one , and only one , out of each pair of mutually exclusive classed in any universe of discourse in which this existent features as a topic . |
| 7 | Yet more clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent we are in effect committed to accepting that this something , at any given time , can be rightfully claimed to belong to one , and only one , out of each pair of mutually exclusive classed in any universe of discourse in which this existent features as a topic . |
| 8 | In Chapter 2 I argued in a similar vein that the concept of an ontological existent involves the idea of non-arbitrariness , in the sense that by positing something as an ontological existent , i.e. as existing in its own right and not merely as an object of someone 's thought , we are by implication positing this something as a potential subject of a nun-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates . |