Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winch 's contention is that to conceive of the relation of an act to the person who acts in terms of the Kantian maxim ‘ acting for the sake of duty ’ is mistaken since ‘ there is no general kind of behaviour of which we have to say that it is good without qualification ’ . |
| 2 | It is odd to speak of the creation of a state as the ‘ pretext ’ for anything : the translator may possibly be responsible for the oddity here , as for the orotundity that precedes it . |
| 3 | In this case it is wrong to speak of the wording of the trust as being free ; the point is instead that it is possible to construe a trust in order to validate a disposition , for their existence or non-existence is not attested purely by the use or non-use of certain forms . |
| 4 | There are local sceptical arguments of this strongest type , as we shall see in chapter 5 ( our knowledge of other minds ) ; and in our discussion of our knowledge of the past and of the future ( chapters 10 and 11 ) we shall have to bear in mind arguments that it is impossible to conceive of an event as other than present , i.e. as being in the past or in the future . |
| 5 | It is easy to think of the doctor , for example , whose father and grandfather were doctors before him and who takes it for granted that his son will follow in his footsteps — without really stopping to consider whether that is what his son wants to do . |
| 6 | On the other hand , anyone who knew Karajan at all well is likely to tell of a man of great personal charm , direct and unaffected , with an amusingly sardonic wit . |
| 7 | It is customary to think of the defeat of Hitler as a ‘ Zero Hour ’ in German history , when everything started with a clean slate . |
| 8 | On the one hand , it is natural to think of the world outside mind as consisting solely of particulars : the only things that could be general would be ideas . |
| 9 | It is helpful to think of a business as operating in a number of different markets . |
| 10 | It is helpful to think of a leader more as a role with characteristic ways of behaving than as a particular person . |
| 11 | But it is better to think of the Pentateuch as one book divided into five sections , rather than as five books rolled into one . |
| 12 | They are simply those rights which underpin the conditions under which it is meaningful to talk of the student 's right to learn . |
| 13 | His reference to faith may explain how it is that he is able to conceive of the notion of absolute Truth which he calls God . |
| 14 | Thus , the child 's language is not sampled directly but , as it were , by proxy in terms of what the teacher or therapist is able to recall of the child 's performance under everyday conditions . |
| 15 | The area office plays a prominent part in what a field officer is able to learn of the job . |
| 16 | It is convenient to think of a valuation ratio of poor to rich , , which reflects their relative marginal social utilities of income whose form comes from equation ( 9–3 ) so that Jenkins ( 1989 ) and the Overseas Development Administration ( 1988 ) provide some convenient calculations for a rich person whose income is four times that of a poor person . |
| 17 | At the most general level , therefore , it is convenient to think of the speech community as having a ‘ shape ’ and of language in the community as being capable of displaying patterns , much as we might think of these other dynamic phenomena as displaying shapes and patterns . |
| 18 | The point is not simply that we can identify status from speech if we wish to , such as with the clever elaborations developed on radio ; rather , that it is difficult to conceive of an utterance in English in which this is not the case . |
| 19 | On the whole , yes , though it is difficult to think of an artist tailoring a picture to the requirements of an exhibition . |
| 20 | Indeed , it is difficult to think of the expression of any ideas that does not reveal a moral attitude . |
| 21 | It is unacceptable to think of the person who is maybe dying wanting something that is not delivered . |
| 22 | At the same time he rightly argues that it is premature to conceive of a cycle of decentralization since that might ‘ presuppose the existence of one single major engine behind the process and suggest the possibility of the recurrence of a similar round of developments in the future ’ ( pp. 35–6 ) . |
| 23 | If it is legitimate to speak of a gene as affecting the wrinkliness of a pea or the nervous system of an animal ( all geneticists think it is ) then it must also be legitimate to speak of a gene as affecting the hardness of the stones in a caddis house . |
| 24 | Schramm wrote : ‘ … it is misleading to think of the communication process as starting somewhere and ending somewhere . |
| 25 | It is misleading to think of the County Council primarily as a body of elected representatives who make decisions of policy and then order officials to execute them . |
| 26 | Still , it is tempting to think of a kind of logical connection . |
| 27 | Treaty , is entitled to require of a national of another member state who wishes to operate a fishing vessel flying its flag and , in particular , can it stipulate , as the Act of 1988 does , that all the owners and operators of such a vessel and 75 per cent . |
| 28 | ( It turns out that there may be a number of lexicons used by the skilled reader — for input and output processing , and for input of words by sight or sound — but for our purposes it is sufficient to talk of the lexicon as the store of word meanings . |
| 29 | When discussing the genetics of a trait , it is easiest to think of the trait as constant within an individual . |
| 30 | It is easiest to think of the sound source as motionless and the listener as moving . |