Example sentences of "an [noun sg] to the study of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there was no clear distinction between philosophy and the particular sciences , the subordination of metaphysics to theology did not necessarily entail an obstruction to the study of nature . |
| 2 | Public choice theory is an approach to the study of political decision-making using the tools of orthodox economic theory ( of the type discussed in Chapter 3 , section 3.2 ) . |
| 3 | Now that we have the outline of an approach to the study of the meanings of words , we can turn our attention to the task of providing a more exact characterisation of the linguistic units which will form the objects of our study . |
| 4 | This project aims to develop an approach to the study of kinship terminologies which differs from that traditional within anthropology . |
| 5 | In denying that bilinguals are special in this respect , I am arguing for an approach to the study of linguistic interactions which bridges the old barrier between " variationist " studies , which deal with social and stylistic variation in " monolingual " , socially stratified speech communities , and " ethnographic " studies of code switching and related phenomena which are normally confined to bilingual or diglossic bidialectal communities . |
| 6 | His later publications included The Gold Mines of the Rand ( with J. A. Chalmers , 1895 ) ; The Geology of South Africa ( with G. S. Corstorphine , 1909 ) ; An Introduction to the Study of Ore Deposits ( 1929 ) ; and The Petrology of the Igneous Rocks ( with A. K. Wells , 8th edn. , 1926 ) . |
| 7 | They should understand what is meant by Language Universals , and the reasons why the development of Transformational Grammar has given so powerful an impetus to the study of language acquisition . |