Example sentences of "as he put [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is not , as he puts it , ‘ that sort ’ of woman . |
| 2 | He prefers to allow this ‘ journey ’ , as he puts it , to continue on the principle of wait and see . |
| 3 | Mr Akhtar 's ex-cathedra statement that The Satanic Verses and The Life of Brian should be ‘ removed from public knowledge ’ because their particular mode of subversiveness is not , as he puts it , ‘ right ’ proves the regrettable gulf between religious fundamentalism and the requirements of a secular society like ours . |
| 4 | First because in Prisoner desire and fantasy seem transformed into nonsublimated social identification ; as he puts it in relation to one group of black students in America , ‘ while I never desired any particular person , I was all desire for the group as a whole . |
| 5 | Defensively , he observes what he considers to be Debord 's virtues and comments on the latter 's avoidance of , as he puts it : ‘ the various pitfalls — formalist essentialism , aestheticist myopia , politically naive fetishism of reflexivity , and so on , typical of certain avant-garde practices linked to radical political agendas . ’ |
| 6 | Whenever the subject of sex comes up ( ’ that thing ’ , as he puts it ) , he becomes painfully embarrassed , while in the presence of his mother he behaves like a gangling schoolboy . |
| 7 | It is clear , too , that the text is concerned with public as well as private matters : Pomponius specifically gives as an example of an obligation which is purely moral ( and , as he puts it , rests on the auctoritas scribentis ) the case of a bequest for statues to be put up in a municipality . |
| 8 | Transformation of individual structures , as he puts it , does take place directly through participation in the communal life of the sangha , and transformation of social structures takes place as a result of the interaction of the life of the sangha with the life of the community surrounding it . |
| 9 | Unlike the 1991 Rugby World Cup , which took place over a whole month , not to mention the three months build-up , thereby allowing the sponsors to develop their marketing strategy over a long period of time , the World Sevens tournament is a three-day event , with the commercial potential of a ‘ Market blink ’ , as he puts it . |
| 10 | As he puts it : |
| 11 | The book , written by Blessed , who is an actor or , as he puts it , ‘ sexy and a star ’ , is about how the actor ( but not the yak ) reached 25,400ft on the North Ridge of Everest while making the film entitled Galahad of Everest . |
| 12 | So the aeroplanes were sold , as he puts it ‘ to keep the piece . ’ |
| 13 | As he puts it : |
| 14 | To achieve this , Poulantzas says , it must to some extent be independent of all classes , or as he puts it , it must be relatively autonomous . |
| 15 | As we have already seen , classes are defined in the light of a variety of factors , political and ideological , as well as economic , so that , as he puts it : |
| 16 | As he puts it : |
| 17 | Caliban 's intelligence far exceeds theirs , to ‘ dote ’ as he puts it contemptuously , on such ‘ trash ’ and ‘ luggage ’ . |
| 18 | Or , as he puts it himself , in words that recall the Christian association of hypocrisy with the devil 's ‘ suggestion ’ or tempting : |
| 19 | This figure of the diaspora returns us to one of the most important aspects of Levinas ' formulation of the relation of the ethical to the political , that is the connections which he makes between the structure of ontology and Eurocentrism , the latter ‘ disqualified ’ , as he puts it , ‘ by so many horrors ’ . |
| 20 | As he puts it in Writing and Difference , at the very moment when the fundamental conceptual systems of Europe are in the process of taking over all of humanity , Levinas leads us instead to ‘ an inconceivable process of dismantling and dispossession ’ . |
| 21 | Unlike Lukács ' insignificant event from which the universal is precariously drawn out through the narrative , Sartre 's singularity works synecdochally in a conventional antinomy with the universal , the relation between the two structured according to the familiar nineteenth-century model of organic growth or process in which each singular event makes up the whole while , as he puts it , ‘ the whole is entirely present in the part as its present meaning and as its destiny ’ . |
| 22 | As he puts it in The Problem of Method : ‘ For us the reality of the collective object rests on recurrence . |
| 23 | If Sartre denies all possibility both of an underlying historical structure and of a larger unity , a ‘ hyper-organism ’ as he puts it , within which conflict takes place , then history as he conceptualizes it here has no specific or necessary direction . |
| 24 | It is in this way that Foucault can return to the possibility of doing historical work that has political force through his notion of genealogy , which means , as he puts it , ‘ that I begin my analysis from a question posed in the present ’ . |
| 25 | That is how the former SAS officer sums up his most recent adventure : the first crossing of Antarctica , the coldest place on earth , on foot , an expedition which has left him , not for the first time in his life , with severe frostbite.He is a man of extremes : in 1991 he led an international team which discovered the lost city of Ubar , in the hottest desert in the world , in Arabia.He will be talking about the ‘ hot and cold experience , ’ as he puts it , at Snape Maltings on Saturday April 24 . |
| 26 | But by the end of the Sixties , Lagerfeld was back , having freelanced for various companies in Italy , and started his long association with the Fendis doing , as he puts it , ‘ funny things ’ for them . |
| 27 | The evidence from the Leicestershire textile village of Shepshed , as he puts it , ‘ supports the argument that the acceleration of economic activity after 1750 was the prime agent breaking down the traditional social controls that previously maintained a demographic equilibrium in which population size was kept in line with resources . ’ |
| 28 | Second , the revised theory of democracy in this version includes ‘ the vital fact of leadership ’ , by which Schumpeter means mainly competing individual leaders who use elite groups to manipulate or , as he puts it , to manufacture the collective will . |
| 29 | Believes in making your own way through life , walking tall , shooting straight , balling chicks as he puts it and spitting in the eye of anyone who does you wrong . |
| 30 | They have been campaigning hard in their Sigma 38 Red Arrow and in their chartered Castro two tonner Oracle Arrow , but John Best has wisely imported professional sailors , as he puts it : ‘ to help us make the jump from weekend sailing to the big league ’ . |