Example sentences of "[pron] he define as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But logic , which he defines as the ‘ art of clear thinking ’ , can provide ‘ general precepts and rules , common to all branches of learning . |
| 2 | When he appears again in The Stormy Petrel , part of his duty is to encourage the prospective King Carol , a timid boy under Count Jasper 's Regency — a boy who , as Dick complains , knows ‘ a lot out of books ’ but nothing about ‘ real things ’ , which he defines as : |
| 3 | Waldron refers to a justification of property along these lines as a right-based argument for private property , which he defines as ‘ an argument which takes an individual interest to be sufficiently important in itself to justify holding others ( especially the government ) to be under duties to create , secure , maintain , or respect an institution of private property ’ . |
| 4 | This is why he calls the object of his study ‘ narrative discourse ’ , which he defines as ‘ the oral or written discourse which undertakes to tell of an event or a series of events ’ , and which he distinguishes from narrative as series of events ( story ) , and narrative as the act of narrating . |
| 5 | He was committed to middle-of-the-road filmmaking , which he defined as ‘ escape entertainment of pleasant people in pleasant surroundings doing pleasant things ’ , had an eye for a subject that could be exploited , and was fascinated by stardom . |
| 6 | He ordered that the petitioner husband should be granted interim access to the child , which he defined as every other weekend in Kingston from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m . |
| 7 | Brookes introduced the concept of ‘ periodical utility ’ , which he defined as the number of references a paper could be expected to attract in its particular library context during the period it remained in the library . |
| 8 | And , in describing the consequences of what he defines as literacy , he distinguishes between societies which employ the notion of ‘ logic ’ and those which do not , between societies with ‘ historical sensibility ’ and those with only myth , and between societies where ‘ scepticism ’ is present involving ‘ deliberate rejection and reinterpretation of social dogma and those limited to ‘ semi-automatic readjustment of belief . |
| 9 | He was utterly intransigent on what he defined as essential principles : the hierarchy within Free France , French sovereignty over areas belonging to France in 1939 , and his personal legitimacy . |