Example sentences of "as primarily [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some have seen apraxia as primarily a defect of execution , others have considered the problem to be one of planning or of conceptual organisation . |
| 2 | Aethelred 's initial acts on becoming king should perhaps be seen as primarily a securing of Mercian border territories . |
| 3 | These include the ‘ legacy of the British ’ , who promoted an overtly punitive penal philosophy , more concerned with the repression of dissent than with ordinary crime , and who ran the prisons as cheaply as possible ; a labyrinthine criminal justice system , which causes many accused persons to spend years in gaol before their trial is completed ; widespread political interference with the police , whereby criminals with ‘ connections ’ often escape justice , leaving the gaols populated predominantly with poor rural labourers ; the designation of prisons , under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution , as primarily the responsibility of the thirty-one individual states and union territories rather than the Indian government — which has perpetuated gross differences in practices and standards ; and the generally low priority attached to ‘ non-productive ’ areas like penal reform in a country with 250 million people below the poverty line , where economic development dominates planning and expenditure . |
| 4 | This was possible because human life was regarded as primarily the life of the community in which one generation quietly succeeded another , so that there was no pressing need for rapid construction . |
| 5 | The problem was exacerbated by the decision in 1950 to leave prisons as primarily the province of the states , which gives the central government something of an excuse for its half-hearted approach to reform . |