Example sentences of "'s relation to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In comparison , ‘ One 's relation to Riemenschneider 's Altar of the Holy Blood is a little passive : one waits and the shift of light will change its mood and meaning . ’ |
| 2 | And yet an Englishman 's relation to English culture and its traditions may be more tormented than Schniedau allows for , especially if the Englishman in question defines himself as , or aspires to be , an English artist . |
| 3 | As Berger asks , what was the old man 's relation to the girl 's baby ? |
| 4 | It ultimately led , he believed , either to scepticism about the very existence of the world or , by quite misunderstanding God 's relation to that world , to atheism or complete materialism . |
| 5 | This was not surprising given that the Parliament was dominated by Faulknerites but even so , it was not clear to Ulster Protestants what it was that the DUP wanted in Ulster 's relation to the mainland . |
| 6 | Arius and his friends had suggested that his critics must presuppose the ( to him ) unacceptable proposition that the Son 's relation to the Father is one of ‘ identity of being ’ , language unprotected against the heresy of Sabellius . |
| 7 | I have mentioned one example of such imagery already — the comparison between God 's relation to the world and salt dissolving in water . |
| 8 | The error is well-ingrained , however : in chapter 5 we look at another famous image of the world 's relation to God coined by William Paley , that of a watch to a watchmaker . |
| 9 | Carpentier , in particular , explores Latin America 's relation to the Western world , notably in Explosion in a Cathedral , which portrays Caribbean society against the background of the French Revolution , and , in all of his works , implanted European systems are seen to be inappropriate to the American environment . |
| 10 | The point I am making , here , is tentative and preliminary : it is simply that , unlike cinema which is still a ‘ specialized activity ’ , television 's relation to the everyday seems more determining than its relation to fantasy . |
| 11 | It would be necessary to understand the particular animal 's relation to its environment at the particular time . |
| 12 | The chances of promotion in Liverpool depend upon the candidate 's relation to his Super — ‘ … matters have gone from bad to worse … |
| 13 | Maggie 's relation to them in space does n't change that much ; you can see them from the kitchen ; you ca n't from the bedsitting room . |
| 14 | The implications of these principles for man 's relation to nature are , in Tillich 's view , profound . |
| 15 | Tillich speaks further about the significance of agape when he refers to man 's relation to himself . |
| 16 | I myself think that the writer 's relation to things as they are changes according to what he or she is writing . |
| 17 | In a useful review of existing work on women 's relation to electoral and work-based politics , Siltanen and Stanworth ( 1984 ) argue for a complete rethink in political analysis . |
| 18 | By conferring the status of unquestionable truth on some aspects of the parent 's relation to the infant , she narrows the domain within which the social can have effects . |
| 19 | But , as Kapla notes of Mitchell , feminist Lacanians tend to assimilate the linguistic unconscious to ideology , and to leave ideology 's relation to the material world unclear . |
| 20 | More recently Bettelheim has stated that ‘ to be a good enough parent one must be able to feel secure in one 's parenthood , and one 's relation to one 's child ’ ( Bettelheim , 1988 ) . |
| 21 | By John Roman Baker , comprising Crying Celibate Tears , The Ice Pick and Freedom to Party , these award-winning plays explore man 's relation to man in a time of crisis , where the war against the HIV virus is at is fiercest . |
| 22 | In other words , Pooh 's relation to Rabbit 's statement , telling him that there 's honey , is essentially the same as his relation to the bees which he uses to observe indirectly that there 's honey . |
| 23 | For example , a Marxist perspective would be likely to view the individual 's relation to the means of production as a more relevant determinant of attitude and behaviour ( including linguistic behaviour ) than his or her position in a stratified society . |
| 24 | There is a fundamental ambiguity , however , in the protagonist 's relation to language : the levelling of meaning and the abolition of distinction is at once the device used by parody and the effect it attacks . |
| 25 | The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological . |
| 26 | Such a view is called into question by Jacques Lacan 's understanding of the subject 's relation to the mirror image . |
| 27 | At this stage the precise form of the household 's relation to its property is of critical importance . |
| 28 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 29 | We need to have some idea of the word 's relation to surrounding hypotheses . |
| 30 | The infinitive 's relation to the modals is thus exactly parallel in the field of potentiality to that which it entertains with auxiliary do in the field of actuality . |