Example sentences of "the [adj] [adv] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | After the red-hot protests of the retired classes , Clinton will not touch the expensive cost of living adjustments to their social security pensions , although he will make taxable 85 per cent of the benefits paid to the rich instead of the present 50 per cent . |
2 | For Engels , by contrast , the possibility revealed by the gentile constitution was a major guarantee that the Marxist vision of the withering away of the State in a future communist society was not a recipe for chaos , as was argued by his opponents . |
3 | Ceauşescu must have amused his colleagues with his remarks ‘ strongly in favour of the acceptance of free will ’ and his thought that ‘ the withering away of the State would be very welcome though he did n't quite see the withering away of the [ Communist ] Party ! ’ |
4 | The Marxist claim that a socialist revolution will inaugurate a classless society , an end to all forms of domination and the withering away of the state is just another myth of popular control , propagated by an emerging counter-elite , the leadership of the new industrial working class . |
5 | The 1986 Programme , similarly , contained no reference to the historic goal of the withering away of the state ( it had long been predicted that the only thing that would wither away was the idea that the state should wither away ) ; its main emphasis was upon practical and short-term objectives , and it struck a disciplinarian rather than utopian note in its references to careerism , nepotism and profiteering . |
6 | The people , exploited economically , socially and politically by capitalism would rise up and seize the state for themselves ( socialism ) and then replace it ( after the withering away of the state ) by a system of communism . |
7 | He prophesied that the triumph of communism would lead to the withering away of the state . |
8 | This is truly what , in another context , has been called the withering away of the state as the state ! |
9 | ‘ The question is , should we , for the good of the diocese , for the good indeed of the Church , keep knowledge of that problem out of the hands of the police or , at least , the press ? ’ |
10 | So how does it feel , Sir Edmund , to be the hunted instead of the hunter ? ’ |
11 | This transition is a consequence of the growing together of the Computing and Library departments , together with the storage of more information on CD ROM and other media . |
12 | It 'll make a change for him to cook in the open instead of the kitchen . ’ |
13 | The Infinite becomes merely the extension ad infinitum of the finite instead of a reality ‘ wholly other ’ . |