Example sentences of "to its [adj] conclusion " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you take the argument about consenting adults to its logical conclusion , that price — Britain 's exchange rate — should be left to them , too . |
| 2 | 1957 : Duncan Sandys ' ‘ Big Bang ’ philosophy , that led to the end of National Service ; 1965 : Denis Healey 's rolling Defence reviews , ending in the withdrawal from East of Suez ; 1974 : Roy Mason 's concentration of resources on Western European Defence , taking the withdrawal from empire to its logical conclusion ; 1981 : John Nott 's intended sacrifice of Maritime in favour of Continental capability , that was aborted by the Falklands Campaign . |
| 3 | In his Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe of 1792 Burke carried the argument to its logical conclusion : |
| 4 | We can take this argument to its logical conclusion and apply it to normal , ‘ own ’ genes . |
| 5 | The band 's interest in American noise bands was taken to its logical conclusion when Steve Albini of Big Black produced ‘ Brassneck ’ , their second single on RCA . |
| 6 | But not only this — it could be seen , if taken to its logical conclusion , as subverting the role of the teacher ; the stages are : ( p 24–25 ) . |
| 7 | Now Barry MacDonald and William Wimpey of the Department of Biology at the University of Hamburg , have taken this research to its logical conclusion . |
| 8 | In the past couple of years , Sir Bob Reid and John Welsby have taken the process to its logical conclusion in a further rejig called Organising for Quality . |
| 9 | In fact if we took this argument to its logical conclusion we would of course be forced to reject Christianity itself , which in its fundamentals is a pre-modern view of the world . |
| 10 | In very general terms , the Renegade Jacket takes this principle to its logical conclusion . |
| 11 | The outer layer is the totally waterproof one , and if you 're going to follow the performance fabric ideology through to its logical conclusion , then a breathable waterproof is essential . |
| 12 | However , although this example reflects the failure of the Federal Trade Commission to think the sanction of positive repentance through to its logical conclusion , it also demonstrates just how powerful this sanction could be , had it been accompanied by just one further instruction — ‘ publish the repenting adverts in the original outlets ’ . |
| 13 | As a result Taos is object-oriented at a very fine level and it takes the idea of dynamic linking to its logical conclusion . |
| 14 | Marek Dabrowski , a former deputy finance minister in Poland and an adviser to the Russian government , takes the argument to its logical conclusion : comparison with Poland 's experience in switching from communism to capitalism shows that the ailments afflicting Russia have not been caused by the imposition of shock therapy . |
| 15 | This interpretation of the forces behind history in The French Revolution and World Revolution was taken to its logical conclusion in her most notorious work , Secret Societies and Subversive Movements . |
| 16 | As a result Taos is object-oriented at a very fine level and it takes the idea of dynamic linking to its logical conclusion . |
| 17 | The reason why the corporatist vision takes a different stance on the question of whose interests corporate managers ought to further is because it pursues to its logical conclusion the implication for the classical view of the company of the separation of ownership and control in the large public company . |
| 18 | That prompted a musical u-turn akin to Clannad suddenly embracing thrash metal and ‘ Screamadelica ’ brings that reappraisal to its logical conclusion . |
| 19 | In other words , taken to its logical conclusion , Weber 's analysis of market capacity would put each person into a separate class because each individual would have a minutely different skill from everyone else . |
| 20 | Taken to its logical conclusion , this would present the deposition as a side-effect of the political community 's attempt to rid themselves of an unpopular group of upstarts . |
| 21 | But you will remember that we ran into trouble if we pressed that point to its logical conclusion . |
| 22 | In the course of his review , Pearce condemned the book by comparing its argument to irrational antisemitism : ‘ Taken to its logical conclusion of course , Intercourse makes the antisemitic rantings of Julius Streicher or The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion appear positively tame by comparison . ’ |
| 23 | Taken to its logical conclusion ( and the advantage of Baudrillard is that he does just this ) , this view entails a denial of all signification . |
| 24 | Indeed , the argument if taken to its logical conclusion would mean that , between 1980 and 1988 , any criteria for selection to be applied in an over-subscribed school ( as in an under-subscribed school ) would have had to be actually agreed between the school and the local education authority . |
| 25 | If Talbot 's Dialtext develops to its logical conclusion with editorial page planning and makeup plus classified and display advertising facilities it will become a very powerful product indeed . |
| 26 | Taken to its logical conclusion , this suggests that to maximise work one would need to place high taxes on the poor and low taxes on the rich ! |
| 27 | Taken to its logical conclusion , it is possible that the same three groups of supporters may combine to ‘ represent ’ England in an overseas confrontation with continental supporters ( Williams et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 28 | She had used inexperienced girls with no make-up , she had shown their deliberately unshaven armpits , she had dressed them in creased and crumpled frocks — the mood shot taken to its logical conclusion , perhaps , as well as an echo of her mother 's antipathy towards using professional models , but a far cry from the traditional ‘ Laura Ashley ’ image of strawberries-and-cream-tea on the lawn . |
| 29 | And it follows the action to its logical conclusion , death , so that you do n't worry about the characters any more . |
| 30 | The measure takes the lifetime approach to its logical conclusion ; at the other extreme , the empirical studies are based on aggregation over generations but m this case taking current income , not lifetime income . |