Example sentences of "[adv] identify with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This avenging boar , the agent of the insulted goddess , is henceforth identified with the destructive forces that produce tragedy . |
| 2 | On the negative side it should be recalled that many Belorussian nationalists were more pro-Western than specifically Belorussian in their emphasis , while many others became so identified with the Bolshevik Party that they shed earlier inclinations . |
| 3 | Younger men like Kenneth Clarke , Kenneth Baker , and John MacGregor were less identified with the Prime Minister personally . |
| 4 | A chimpanzee is an easy recipient for human projections since humans can easily identify with the emotional expressions of chimpanzees . |
| 5 | He was too easily identified with the English cause and the conservatism of the small landlords . |
| 6 | Although we no longer identify with the traditional practices of ancestor worship , the centrality of death is reaffirmed by wars and indeed , the frequency in which the dead are brought before us in television , in literature and politics in contemporary life . |
| 7 | The public would no more identify with the new councils than they did with the present ones or did with the old councils , Prof Midwinter stressed . |
| 8 | The latter identified far more closely with French culture than their counterparts in Nigeria or the Gold Coast ever identified with the British . |
| 9 | Bradbury goes on to explain that this ‘ shift or lapse ’ is ‘ usually identified with the thirties , when realism and politics came back ’ ( 86 ) . |
| 10 | The picture is thus one of overt factions , with the Woodvilles manipulating the majority of the council against Gloucester and the small group of councillors who supported the idea of a protectorate — an element usually identified with the dead king 's friend and chamberlain William lord Hastings , who had personal reasons for fearing an increase in Woodville power and therefore for backing Gloucester . |
| 11 | The picture is thus one of overt factions , with the Woodvilles manipulating the majority of the council against Gloucester and the small group of councillors who supported the idea of a protectorate — an element usually identified with the dead king 's friend and chamberlain William lord Hastings , who had personal reasons for fearing an increase in Woodville power and therefore for backing Gloucester . |
| 12 | He was appointed commissioner in 1975 and was quickly identified with the tough law and order stand of the then coalition government . |
| 13 | As minister of labour he was concerned that the government should not become totally identified with the Unionist Party and was determined that people in Northern Ireland should have the same standards of living as those in the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | The widening of awareness and gaining of new insight associated with the latter is clearly identified with the aesthetic domain . |
| 15 | While Fontainebleau played an important part in the seasonal round of Court life , Compiègne was , and has remained , the Imperial residence most clearly identified with the Second Empire . |
| 16 | The unifying factor was Ho Chi Minh , acting as agent of the Comintern , and while it would not manage to suppress its nationalist tendencies indefinitely it was for the moment clearly identified with the Vietnamese working class . |
| 17 | The fact that face-to-face communication is usually considered as basic for the purposes of deictic reference , does not imply , however , that the deictic context relevant to ordinary conversation is invariably and straightforwardly identified with the immediate situation in which the interaction takes place : In 1 it is the speaker 's physical location within a restricted spatial setting ( e.g. a room , a square , etc ) that is relevant to the disambiguation of the place deictic " here " , whereas in 2 the reference of the same adverb falls within a much wider context ( a whole country ) , and the spatial deictic centre includes the hearer as well as the speaker . |
| 18 | From its first meeting it was also identified with the anti-slavery movement and this meant that it did not establish itself in America , where many religious leaders were wary of too close an identification with such a divisive issue . |
| 19 | There were inter-party rivalries within the UUUC and inter-factional rivalries within the parties and , although Paisley and I belonged to different parties , the fact that we were both identified with the Black case was not necessarily always helpful . |
| 20 | Many historians have tended to stress the instrumental nature of sexual relationships and the conflicts inherent in working-class patterns of life , and no doubt much of this was often true ; but because we can not now identify with the exact meanings given to activities , this does not mean that strong feelings of warmth and mutual support did not exist . |
| 21 | Does the Minister accept that in a recession in which many small businesses have gone to the wall , their failure is often identified with the late payment by large companies of their debts ? |
| 22 | In liberal democratic circles , those most strongly identified with the dissident tradition , the 1989 revolutions are seen as the chance to embark on a qualitatively new political future . |
| 23 | Over time the Country platform became increasingly identified with the Tory party , whilst the Whigs in turn essentially became a Court party . |
| 24 | This style was characteristic of the Dreamers , and Smohalla 's doctrine became increasingly identified with the non-treaty bands . |
| 25 | Senior career civil servants invariably identify with the Democratic party . |
| 26 | Again , sword and phallus substitute for each other , but in a uniquely revealing way : not only is Vitelli 's violence against Clara 's father erotically identified with the sexual act performed ‘ with ’ her , but the disembowelment of him is aligned with her childbirth . |
| 27 | In 1628 Cecil married Anne ( died 1649 ) , the Catholic daughter of Thomas Arundell ( first Baron Arundell of Wardour , q.v. ) , and became firmly identified with the Catholic faction . |
| 28 | In the latter case , of course , the sole criterion for being in the right is that of being opposed to the protagonist most closely identified with the parental authority — a very easy requirement to fulfil as the following true , but rather ludicrous , example shows . |
| 29 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |
| 30 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |