Example sentences of "of good [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rejoices in an enhanced belief in Manichaean and mythological archetypes of good and evil which are made manifest in exaggerated games of ‘ cops ’ and ‘ robbers ’ . |
| 2 | In Bali , we are also told , life can be spent among people who daily interact with the forces of good and evil in nature . |
| 3 | Some kind of mysterious balance of good and evil , of extreme good and extreme evil , is of the nature of human society and necessary to it . |
| 4 | In 1926 , for instance , he returned to Westermarck ( whom he had read eleven years before ) attacking his ideas that the origin and development of the ideas of good and evil were caused merely by economic , genetic , and hygienic factors . |
| 5 | In stories of great temptation , of interplanetary flights , wrestlings with the powers of good and evil , Lewis found something which had already engaged his own pen , and would continue to do so . |
| 6 | They suffer ; and they wrestle with the big themes of good and evil , heroism and betrayal , man and God . |
| 7 | He gives them now the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil . |
| 8 | This is not a film for those in search of easy entertainment or simple dispositions of good and evil . |
| 9 | In Crimes , Allen achieves the seemingly impossible by raising complex issues of good and evil , moral ambiguity and guilt , in a way that is both witty and compellingly entertaining . |
| 10 | It was called Zurvan akarana , or infinite time , and was the progenitor of the universe and of the Spirits of good and evil . |
| 11 | The whole reason for the existence of finite time appears to have been to bring about that conflict of good and evil which eventually leads to the triumph of the former . |
| 12 | Prior to eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil , Adam and Eve were not troubled by ontological anxiety . |
| 13 | The Cathars were a movement in Southern France who believed in a dual world of Spirit-Flesh , of Good and Evil fighting each other . |
| 14 | It is an age-old heresy to see the world as a battleground between the forces of good and evil . |
| 15 | At the core of Hampden Babylon is a titanic struggle between the forces of good and evil . |
| 16 | In a Christian world view which revolves around the battle of good and evil , could not the devil — known as the father of lies — cause the gifts of God to be aped ? |
| 17 | And we could show bar codes in a supermarket and tell people that all notions of good and evil , beauty and horror , have been totally turned into bits of information … ‘ |
| 18 | That is , how to give a child a knowledge of what has been accepted as right and what has been accepted as wrong , or , in other words , of good and evil ; and further , how this can be so well rooted in their minds that it produces in them an inclination to act automatically in accordance with what must be designated civilised behaviour . |
| 19 | The gradual acceptance of the Darwinian evolutionary philosophy , that enables us to accept each species in its own right and see its actions from its own point of view , has meant that we are released from the burden of interpreting everything animals do in terms of good and evil . |
| 20 | The forces of good and evil are ranged against each other in a struggle for victory , and the future depends upon the triumph of good . |
| 21 | A third variant is that the ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ qualities are apportioned to different people outside , in much the same way as children believe in and distinguish between fairies and witches , cowboys and Indians , empires of good and evil . |
| 22 | We see not the balance of good and evil . |
| 23 | Without a knowledge of good and evil , for example , there would only be ignorance and destruction . |
| 24 | To remind them that their rule was derived from God himself , and that they were neither creators nor rulers by right , God forbade them only one thing : they were not to partake of the knowledge of good and evil ; such a mysterious gnosis belonged to God alone . |
| 25 | Men would become gods and taste of the fruit of the ( critical ) tree of knowledge of good and evil . |
| 26 | They ought to suggest also that he thought more deeply than his critics have ever recognised about just those issues he is commonly alleged to ignore : the processes of temptation , the complex nature of good and evil , the relationship between reality and our fallible perception of it . |
| 27 | Tony Armatrading rushes to the rescue as a modern-day Lancelot in this allegoric story — orginally a diatribe against Stalin and Hitler — about the forces of good and evil . |
| 28 | This essentially rational nature of the human essence explains why thought — such thought as Spinoza tries to express in his work — can influence our behaviour , so that we are guided by conceptions of good and evil . |
| 29 | Author and publisher Anthony Rudolf chairs in a discussion on the nature of good and evil with two foremost authors whose work is intimately concerned with these concepts . |
| 30 | To eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil will therefore make man like God . |