Example sentences of "of [art] nature of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This not only makes an understanding of the nature of Victorian pubs difficult , but also means that those which do survive merit special care and attention . |
| 2 | But even if treating our awareness of our own mental states as topic-neutral plausibly explains why we are not aware of our brains as such when we are aware of our mental states , it does not explain why knowing fully about the brain does not include knowledge of the nature of experience . |
| 3 | So perhaps my overkill misses the target : perhaps the behaviourist analysis of perception is sound , even though a general behaviourism is not , and what BS lacks is not knowledge of the nature of certain mental states , but only the ability to respond spontaneously to visual stimuli , that is , to respond as a result of actually seeing them . |
| 4 | If , as I have argued , neurophysiological explanations of mind explain nothing and if physiological observations give us no purchase on the essentially metaphysical question of the nature of mind , how has the myth become so powerful that many people within and outside the scientific community do believe that neurophysiology has advanced ( or will advance ) our understanding of mind and the mind-body relationship ? |
| 5 | There has been much discussion recently of the nature of literary canons ; university teachers of English are seen as both initiators and guardians of the canon ( as , for instance , by Kermode in his essay , ‘ Institutional Control of Interpretation ’ ) . |
| 6 | According to Mr Abbell , his case is of interest only because of the nature of his clients . |
| 7 | Dr Gerson became convinced that the treatment helped the body to heal itself , regardless of the nature of the disease . |
| 8 | Moreover , since Michael Heseltine 's departure , there is no one in Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet to remind her of the nature of Entrepreneurial Man . |
| 9 | Without open debate and education , the local community can not move to the clearer understanding of the nature of child sexual abuse that is necessary for professionals to receive the help and support they need from the public . |
| 10 | However , the characteristics of police occupational culture in Easton and the question of informal rules and control will be addressed in later chapters , to allow the focus here to narrow towards an outline of the nature of routine policing and its accomplishment . |
| 11 | Because of the nature of crime in Easton , most Land Rovers on routine calls only contain the driver and observer , both seated in the front , making some sort of conversation between them possible . |
| 12 | Those who do might also be thought to be insincere , but some policemen showed real regret and disappointment when they were unable to provide the service they felt they should , whether because of the nature of the call or because of unrealistic public expectations ( such as finding lost budgies , preventing sheep-worrying , or reconciling warring spouses and quarrelsome neighbours ) . |
| 13 | But even if the proposition be true , it could not be the case for more and better education because of the nature of education itself . |
| 14 | Some kind of mysterious balance of good and evil , of extreme good and extreme evil , is of the nature of human society and necessary to it . |
| 15 | Here again , I do n't see why the prognosis is particularly gloomy ; for self-adaption to changing methods and circumstances is of the nature of a continuing society . |
| 16 | Because of the nature of his studies he was sent to work at the Esso refinery at Fawley . |
| 17 | There are countless examples from most African countries of a similar negligence of completed investments , although some of this is a by-product of the nature of development aid , as we shall see in Chapter 11 . |
| 18 | This was an attempt to explain the evolution of law in terms of the nature of government , which itself was explained by a variety of other factors , such as climate and population density . |
| 19 | Capitalists exploit the workers by depriving them of this surplus value and they do this because of the nature of property in capitalist societies , where the means of production are controlled by the capitalist . |
| 20 | In this type of mistaken fabrication of early history , by the construction of an opposite to the present , Marx and Engels were following many other writers of their time but , as we shall see , because of the nature of their theory , this was particularly harmful in their case . |
| 21 | This is explained in terms of the nature of the Germanic invasions which brought about the destruction of the Roman Empire and is dealt with in Chapters 7 and 8 . |
| 22 | The main point , however , of the section on the Germanic tribes is a discussion of the nature of feudalism , and this is little different from that found in The German Ideology . |
| 23 | In this matter of the nature of the gens ( descent group ) further research has actually proved both sides of the controversy right . |
| 24 | The reason for their success seems to me to be less due to their perceptiveness concerning pre-capitalist conditions than due to the depth of their analysis of the nature of labour under capitalism . |
| 25 | They were seeking throughout their work to show that the concepts on which the edifice of capitalism was built , the concepts of the State , of property , of the nature of men and women , of marriage , of the family , of labour , of trade , and of capital itself , were not unshakeable givens based on such ahistorical phenomena as the nature of man , or logic , or god . |
| 26 | In his attempts to understand the paths taken by projectiles and falling bodies , he had ‘ opened to us the gate of natural philosophy universal , which is the knowledge of the nature of motion ’ . |
| 27 | The Puritan appeal to individual conscience , the conflicts between Parliament and King , all rest on a misunderstanding of the nature of sovereignty , and its relation to the governed . |
| 28 | His writings , with their discussions of the nature of science , contain the basis of a theoretical empiricism . |
| 29 | Just what routes will logic produce to lead me to the complete knowledge of the nature of a flea ? … |
| 30 | So , even though he continually contrasts the value of everyday experience with the emptiness of Aristotelian procedures , he in fact goes on to argue that everyday experience also is powerless to give us knowledge of the nature of things . |