Example sentences of "[adv] the notion " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to work successfully the notion of Partnership through Compact must involve all the personnel in the participating organisations including trade unions . |
| 2 | A third category — and here presumably the notion of philanthropy is to the fore — consisted of orphans or destitute girls in institutions — of unclassifiable social Origin but genteel upbringing . |
| 3 | But on the other hand , in doing this he is in danger of passing over altogether the notion of social ‘ repression ’ . |
| 4 | Like many doctors still , scientists find it almost impossible to take on the notion of psychic energy . |
| 5 | Matthew A. has taken on the notion of drafting , of provisionality , better than the others . |
| 6 | In addition to reinforcing our general conceptions concerning the underpinnings of liberalism , economic theories , which are based on the assumption of ‘ rational economic man ’ , highlight especially the notion of human beings as self-regarding creatures which underpins liberal theories in general . |
| 7 | Given such ambiguity , perhaps the notion of the inner city should be dropped altogether from academic analysis . |
| 8 | You might think that you could hardly have anything much simpler than the idea of zero or unity , or even perhaps the notion of number , erm sorry , but what , zero or unity , what Peano was proposing to do was to define these basic arithmetical ideas in terms of ideas simpler still . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , of course , dear old Fagg is a great man for believing whatever suits him and obviously the notion that this was an inside job is unlikely to appeal . |
| 10 | So the notion was accepted that the magistrate should be responsible for execution of the sentence he , or the judge appointed by him , had pronounced . |
| 11 | So the notion that venture capitalists are prone to interfering in the businesses in which they invest is not , strictly speaking , a valid one , or if so not a criticism about which MBO managers would fret too much . |
| 12 | So the notion of an observation statement , which reports nothing but the evidence of one 's senses , is in dispute among logical empiricists . |
| 13 | So the notion of individual deterrence seems to be of little value in justifying our penal practices . |
| 14 | So the notion that pragmatics might be the study of aspects of meaning not covered in semantics certainly has some cogency . |
| 15 | In its use as an auxiliary , do has retained from the idea of " performing an activity " signified in its use as a lexical verb only the notion of " something actually taking its place in time " : do auxiliary thus has the effect of discussing the real actualization in time of the lexical event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 16 | He smiled and lifted his champagne glass to his lips and Ruth expected some sort of challenge thrown out but none came and a strange feeling percolated inside her , almost disappointment , but she shooed away the notion . |
| 17 | Though they did n't get the credit for it , ‘ 1992 — The Love Album ’ was a determined effort to throw away the notions of a ‘ formularised ’ Carter sound . |
| 18 | Soon the notion was floating round Capitol Hill . |
| 19 | We must also examine critically the notion that individual practitioners enjoy an autonomy which is somehow derived from that of the collectivity . |
| 20 | Thus the notion that being 70 is qualitatively different from being 70 in centuries past , assuming comparable social circumstances , is imprecise . |
| 21 | Thus the notion of security requires reformulation in terms of satisfaction of human needs : weapons can not meet the threat of starvation . |
| 22 | The public 's ideas for providing full employment were coloured by the success of wartime planning , but they remained largely the notions of the years before the war , as Table 1 , compiled immediately following the publication of the Beveridge report in December 1942 , shows : a public works programme was mentioned four times as frequently as socialism , which was less popular than solutions based on reducing the amount of work to be done by individuals , and in the number wanting work . |
| 23 | Erm , er he might be doing a very good job of explaining some other notion , not the notion of a self or an individual , but er something else . |
| 24 | Meanwhile the notion of education as an instrument , or means to an end , was subject to pressures of a quite different kind . |
| 25 | But still the notion that Dr Dunstaple had been right somehow persisted , independent of thought or reason , as insubstantial as the supposed " invisible cholera cloud " itself which Dr Dunstaple believed had once hung over Newcastle . |
| 26 | Gradually the notion that such flexibility adds strength , not shame , to the EC is gaining acceptance across Europe . |
| 27 | When Johnson , as we know he did , dipped into Boswell 's Hebrides Journal , its tone can not have put him off the notion of Boswell writing a Life . |
| 28 | Only two developments are worthy of note , both of which serve to substantiate further the notion of the institution as formalizing and legitimizing property arrangements : first , the gradual recognition of the right to end the relationship ( with greater ease as social mobility increases and old class structures requiring protection of their pedigree collapse ) on the condition that the more vulnerable party economically be protected ; and the corollary idea that , given the possibility of separation and divorce , while the relationship subsists , certain mutual rights of support exist for the partners . |
| 29 | The behaviour which characterised these latter cases would have called forth the notion of ‘ sex beast ’ or ‘ sex monster ’ at the search stage . |
| 30 | Wade and Bradley in Constitutional and Administrative Law ( 1985 ) , p. 3 , state that ‘ constitutional law concerns the relationship between the individual and the state , seen from a particular viewpoint , namely the notion of law … |