Example sentences of "[prep] the world as " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the dramatic differences between the world as pictured by M. de St. Croix from Trafalgar Square in 1839 and the one in which PHOTOGRAPHY NOW takes place 150 years later is , precisely , the proliferation of photographically originated signs . |
| 2 | Jarvis wandered about the world as young people do , but instead of driving a van to India or observing political upheaval in Central America or getting into trouble in Africa he went to look at metro systems . |
| 3 | Disability arts , on the other hand , where , for example , sculpture is designed to be touched as well as seen , and songs are written about the world as we see it , can redress the balance and engage a lot of people in questioning assumptions that their exclusion from society is a fact of life . |
| 4 | Apocalyptic expectations , envisaging the end of the world as we know it , have strangely survived abandonment of the belief that all our lives are in the hands of Providence . |
| 5 | ‘ FALLACIES of the modern worldview have to do with the conception of the world as substance or machinery , mistaking abstractions for reality , confusing origins and truth , failing to attribute feeling to things that feel , recognising ethics as exclusively anthropocentric , thinking a posteriori , objectifying facts as separated from values , reducing the complex to the simple and dividing knowledge into distinct disciplines that produce experts who are often wrong . ’ |
| 6 | They thought of the world as essentially static and unchanging . |
| 7 | They each believed that what they were doing was vital for the betterment of the world as each saw it and neither would give way to the other , or defer in any way to the other 's claimed priority in attention , preference or responsibility . |
| 8 | of the world as fluently |
| 9 | If the American people , like Naisbitt , can face this situation realistically and without xenophobia in the 1980s , it will be good for the rest of the world as well as the United States . |
| 10 | The religions based on Judaism are broadly categorised as western , and the other great religions of the world as eastern . |
| 11 | Any obscuring of the world as the known facts show it objectively to be betrays a weakness in me . |
| 12 | The most prominent orienting devices remain the symbolically defined frames of reference of social roles , which are integrated by the constant process of the individual 's or the group 's construction of his own identity in the context of the world as he or they know it . |
| 13 | It was not quite the end of the world as we know it , but it was close . |
| 14 | The logical thing to do , however , is not to turn one 's back on philosophy in general , but to look for mistakes in the particular philosophy of which the conception of the world as ‘ external ’ , colourless , and so on , is a part . |
| 15 | He regards the rest of the world as being slightly eccentric . ’ |
| 16 | However , of genuine concern is the potential cruelty resulting from ‘ survival ’ or ‘ recovery ’ surgery used in the training of some veterinarians in the USA and probably other parts of the world as well . |
| 17 | I quite agree with Mackie that colour presents itself as being as much part of the fabric of the world as , say , shape and that much the same is true of value , and also agree that they seem therefore initially intelligible as being there in a manner not intrinsically bound up with our responses to them . |
| 18 | Everything else at IBM Corp was rather overshadowed last Tuesday by its announcement of the end of the world as its employees know it — and in effect , the death of the mainframe , but the company did also make a couple of significant product announcements , notably Release 2 of AIX/ESA mainframe Unix Version 2 , built on the Open Software Foundation 's OSF/1 Release 1.1 with additional IBM enhancements to exploit large processor capabilities . |
| 19 | We have been known to describe major launches as ‘ IBM announcing the end of the world as we know it ’ : this time , that really is what the company has announced . |
| 20 | ‘ [ Just as ] feminism identifies interrelatedness and mutuality-equal , respectful , and nurturing relationships — as the basis of the world as it really is and as it ought to be , we can find no better understanding and image of the divine than that of the perfect and open relationships of love . |
| 21 | Or again , independent nomic conditionals come to this : Given the rest of the world as it was , or given that it was different in any way we can conceive it as [ icing , without logically " excluding a and b , then if a happened so did b . |
| 22 | The controlling element in this long development was not the ingenuity of men nor the pressure of society but the nature of the world as it was revealed to increasingly thorough investigation . |
| 23 | It involves our knowledge of the world as well , and if the story had gone |
| 24 | On the other hand , it does not involve the complex Hegelian construction of the world as ultimately rational ; it allows for no philosophical or transcendental resolution , no expressive totality or teleology , no absolute knowledge or ideal communism . |
| 25 | Consequently , Raymond spends his days trying to understand psychotic murderers ( ‘ they 're all bores because they see the rest of the world as flat , and extension of themselves ’ ) , serial killers ( ‘ invariably gifted men ’ ) and the police , for whom he has a particular sympathy . |
| 26 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 27 | According to Tim , this has resulted in a return to an élitist society in which ‘ The population has learnt to live on abstractions and interpretations of the world as presented by a few ’ ( 92 ) . |
| 28 | From his discussion of how such isolated clans as the Macraes , in such hollows of the world as Auchnasheal , repel all boarders , Johnson opens up a discussion of how mankind in this condition regulates itself . |
| 29 | In 1767 one of these thinkers , Lemercier de la Rivière , in his L'Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques ( 1767 ) , presented such a ruler as not legislating in any positive sense but merely declaring and applying fundamental laws which were immanent in the nature of things , in the structure of the world as it is and must be . |
| 30 | to extract and expound the most ordinary beliefs about the constitution of the world as pictured in the Elizabethan age and through this exposition to help the ordinary reader to understand and to enjoy the great writers of the age . |