Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Society has to decide how much risk-taking it wishes to encourage and to allow a proper return to risk-taking as an economic cost against accounting profits . |
| 2 | This view of our purpose prevents frustration at loss of ‘ role within the church ’ and encourages a fresh commitment to evangelism as a way of life . |
| 3 | So too is materialism which is their reason for positing it as a rightful successor to idealism as the method for understanding history . |
| 4 | Both rejected positivistic literary scholarship and called for a renewed attention to literature as literature ; both insisted on the differences between literature and other kinds of writing , and tried to define these differences in theoretical terms ; both gave a central role in their definitions to ideas of structure and interrelatedness , and treated the literary text as an object essentially independent of its author and its historical context . |
| 5 | All too frequently Nizan 's highly publicised resignation from the PCF in September 1939 is interpreted by contemporary liberal critics imbued with a visceral hostility to communism as the visible sign that his allegiance to the party was flawed from the beginning . |
| 6 | It is , as I shall try now to show , a more powerful and persuasive conception of law than conventionalism , and a stronger challenge to law as integrity . |
| 7 | An additional approach to geography as a whole using a systems framework has been advocated by Wilson ( 1981 ) . |
| 8 | There is in Freud an explicit commitment to science as a method of gaining knowledge , this being understood to include speculative thought which is then checked against systematic observations of human action and behaviour . |
| 9 | In Rawls it can be seen from his model of ‘ pure procedural justice ’ and the assertion of an equal right to liberty as the primary principle . |
| 10 | In the result , Co-operation seen as an exclusive alternative to Capitalism as the means of organising society for the production of wealth was , for all practical purposes , abandoned ; and abandoned with it was trade unionism seen as the means by which capitalism was to be displaced by Co-operation . |