Example sentences of "as forms [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who are addicted to the vertiginous rhetoric where language tells us nothing about reality , merely about other language , and where signifiers float in endless unattached free play , are apt to be contemptuous of demonstration and logic , seeing them as forms of bourgeois intellectual oppression . |
| 2 | The evidence of three recent controlled studies indicates that clients with bulimia nervosa can benefit to a similar degree from treatments which can not be regarded as forms of Cognitive–Behaviour Therapy ( Fairburn and Cooper , 1989 ) . |
| 3 | The first three of these serve as forms of energy ( starch mainly in plants , glycogen mainly in animals ) while cellulose is the tough material from which the cell walls of plants are constructed . |
| 4 | A number of student ‘ tides ’ were underway which can be seen as forms of adaptive behaviour or strategies for improving their social position , either temporarily or on a more permanent basis . |
| 5 | Although the leaked Catechism concedes that ‘ non-violent measures are preferable ’ as forms of punishment , it nevertheless declares that the death penalty ‘ is legitimate ’ . |
| 6 | But having snapped the thread which had led Hegel on from there to his speculative Absolute , they turned back to find the real meaning and reference of these objectifications in the subject which had produced them as forms of its own self-expression . |
| 7 | The constitution of subjects , and the simultaneous constitution of the occupants of particular roles would then both be seen as forms of legitimation . |
| 8 | Similarly , when G. P. Jones moves from noting the greater prominence of pronouns in Shakespeare compared with other Elizabethans to the statement that his sonnets have ‘ a substantial autobiographical element ’ , and that the ‘ fluctuation between thou and you ’ shows ‘ the poet 's uncertainty about his personal , social and professional connection with his patron is at its most acute ’ , then I feel that such speculations deflect attention from the real focus of interest , the pronouns as forms of relationship . |
| 9 | The United States ' amicus brief tried , unconvincingly , to demonstrate that both these forms of procedure should be regarded , and had been by the drafters of the Convention , as forms of ‘ service abroad ’ . |
| 10 | The multiplication of life tenures , the scramble for reversions , and the attempt to make posts hereditary are all indications that offices were coming to be regarded as forms of property rather than as jobs to be done . |
| 11 | Knowles and Mercer reject the idea that there is any general relationship between ‘ race ’ and gender as forms of division : rather , both racism and sexism should be ‘ viewed as a series of effects which do not have a single cause ’ . |
| 12 | Shirking and the pursuit of managerial goals are generally regarded as forms of behaviour that are socially inefficient , since the former involves the sub-optimal use of resources and the latter , on the assumptions discussed in Chapter 1 , produces allocatively inefficient outcomes . |
| 13 | The invention and development of the material means of cultural production is a remarkable chapter of human history , yet it is usually underplayed , by comparison with the invention and development of what are more easily seen as forms of material production , in food , tools , shelter and utilities . |
| 14 | There are forms of dance which we all admit as forms of art : for example , classical ballet . |
| 15 | Fourth , discounts for ‘ full line ’ ordering and commodity bundling are best interpreted as forms of price discrimination . |
| 16 | Kant , as we saw , held that the unity of the phenomenal world can be accounted for only if space and time are interpreted as forms of our intuition , not as properties of things in themselves , but that for this very reason we must accept that there is an extra-phenomenal as well as a phenomenal side to reality , with things in themselves being inaccessible to cognition . |
| 17 | Because these are short-term and rather non-specific behavioural changes , they must be regarded as forms of non-associative learning , but important to Kandel 's argument is that classical conditioning is also possible ; in this the unconditioned stimulus is a shock to the tail , and the conditioned stimulus a mild tactile stimulus to the siphon . |
| 18 | This makes little difference to the behaviour of the companies so far as the production of policies and their conduct of business are concerned , but it does impose further constraints on the marketing of what are now clearly seen as forms of saving . |