Example sentences of "in a [adj] context [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in a modern context it is immediately clear that students find it hard to combine study with a full-time job ; so , addressing a would-be contemplative , the Cloud-author explains his view that it is impossible for man to pursue the discipline of meditation and study unless he first ceases external activity , and impossible to come to mystical knowledge of God if the mind is engaged in discursive thought . |
| 2 | They are partially derived from the conventional or literal meaning of an utterance , produced in a specific context which is shared by the speaker and the hearer , and depend on a recognition by the speaker and the hearer of the Cooperative Principle and its maxims . |
| 3 | In a European context there are many countries where a high proportion of the school population stay in school or technical education until after the age of 18 . |
| 4 | we 've been talking about individuals and what they want , and we live in a context in which if people want a thing and the , and we feel that they should have the choice particularly if they have the money that if to , if you look at it in a wider context there are seven million children living on the streets in Brazil ! |
| 5 | A lot of worthy efforts , from a Tory viewpoint , but creating more controversy than popular support : in a political context which may no longer fail to penalise such cavalier indifference to the priorities of the masses . |
| 6 | In a Christian context this appeal is to Christ ; in a pre-Christian context they could be a pagan 's appeal , to a forerunner of Christ , to a Saviour whose nature he did not know . |
| 7 | Valium use , furthermore , focuses on individual malfunctioning : social and economic problems are dealt with in a framework of a medical model of relief of individual distress , alleviating symptoms rather than operating in a social context which may require familial or wider social change . |
| 8 | This guarantees students the maximum opportunity to use their English outside the classroom in a social context which is sometimes difficult to achieve on short courses . |
| 9 | In a psychological context it means the compresence of simultaneously experienced qualities — visual , acoustic , tactile , etc. — which are part of one momentary experience ( referred to by Russell as " I-now " ) . |
| 10 | In a Marxist context it , it can not because the only way in which you can make progress is through co class conflict . |
| 11 | This may not seem much in terms of Hong Kong 's caseload of more tha 40,000 Vietnamese , but set in a historical context it is an achievement . |
| 12 | There is therefore constant commercial pressure on address lists , especially if they are preselected — i.e. compiled in a particular context which is relevant from an advertising point of view . |
| 13 | The empirical study of knowledge requires a method for imputing knowledge to a particular social group in a given context which remains a contentious area . |