Example sentences of "[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 | One of their champions the prominent politician Jack Ashley , who remains an elected Member of Parliament after having been deafened at the age of forty-five , expressed their feelings in a speech delivered in 1973 : the deaf must adopt a very different attitude to society as a whole … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Thus , we may be helped to avoid the trap of ruling out as irrelevant , even before we start , whatever forms of knowledge may not fit into the currently accepted general scientific approach to reality as a whole . |
| 5 | I still commend this report to council as the first real stride along the road we have to take , there 's no choice about that . |
| 6 | Thus extending the Kantian insight beyond political morality to morality as a whole explains the elimination of moral beliefs and ideals of the good from behind the veil of ignorance . |
| 7 | From then on , the labour movement offered no serious opposition to conscription as such . |
| 8 | Never has there been a gas cooker with so many refinements , so many innovations , so much attention to detail as the new Moffat Discovery . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | An additional approach to geography as a whole using a systems framework has been advocated by Wilson ( 1981 ) . |
| 11 | They might pause to reflect that there are those already born who have an equally strong right to life as an unborn child , and for whom embryo experimentation may give some hope of cure or relief . |
| 12 | So too is materialism which is their reason for positing it as a rightful successor to idealism as the method for understanding history . |
| 13 | Although one limitation of Kendall 's explanation of European and Anglo-American distinctions is that it takes no account of the substantial differences which exist within his two comparison groups ( especially those between Britain and the USA ) nevertheless it is , as Shalev ( 1980a ) has shown , a useful approach in linking contextual structure to behaviour as a means of explaining the broad contrasts between the greater economism and internal unity of British and US unionism as compared with politicisation and ( outside Britain and Scandinavia ) religious/ideological divisions in Western Europe . |
| 14 | There is increased resistance to lysis as the thrombus ages not only in vivo , but also in vitro . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And he carried that Conservative generation to vote a motion which preferred Liberalism to Conservatism as the better future for the country . |
| 19 | The feminist response to abortion as a moral problem has been ambivalent . |
| 20 | Coal had been particularly hard hit by the continuing switch to gas as a fuel by the recently privatized electricity supply industry [ see pp. 38111 ; 38300 ] . |
| 21 | The referendum had been organized to offer a choice between six different options , plus the existing status quo , ranging from full independence to incorporation as a state of the USA . |
| 22 | The American press lapped up her homespun philosophy and whimsical reaction to success as an integral part of the ‘ Laura Ashley ’ empire . |
| 23 | Riding 's governing bodies should be paying more attention to clothing as ‘ equipment ’ important for safety and performance instead of for appearance 's sake . |
| 24 | Weber also gave more emphasis to status as a factor which , in some circumstances , could override the effects of class on social behaviour and ideas , often to the point of diminishing them entirely . |
| 25 | Promoted to a senior lectureship in 1973 and to his professorship in German some 10 years later , he was one of the few remaining full-time members of the staff to have witnessed not only the coming of age of the University , but also the massive expansion of the Modern Languages Department and its impressive rise to prominence as an exponent of the applied approach to the teaching of languages , involving a marked shift of emphasis from a near exclusive preoccupation with literary studies in one foreign language to the development of communication skills in at least two . |
| 26 | Sufferers frequently know the exact time of their last drink and may remember their very first introduction to alcohol as a very special experience , something that may clearly differentiate them from the non-addictive population . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The term coined by Banfield for this ethic is ‘ amoral familism ’ ; that it is ‘ amoral ’ is implicit in the exclusive pursuit of short-run material advantage ascribed to individuals in such societies , so that they lack any capacity to sacrifice immediate gains in favour of long-term advantage , and they are unable to associate any good to society as a whole with possible good to themselves or their family . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | What he 's doing might be considered unfortunate for the baby — though I 'm not sure it is — but it could be of immense value to humanity as a whole . ’ |