Example sentences of "[art] world as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps this is the more important in the late twentieth century now that this means of image-making is so familiar that some people actually imagine that a photograph shows the world as it is . |
| 2 | They exist , theorists believe , because they help us to see the world as it really is . |
| 3 | To assert this is merely to reiterate a point that should be obvious : that science , however sophisticated its instrumentation , can not generate observations that somehow enable us to look at the relationship between experience and the world as it were from outside of experience . |
| 4 | Here then was the world as it appeared to Paisley . |
| 5 | Dr Mahmoud al-Sharief , Jordan 's Information Minister , said the best antidote to radical Islam was to give fundamentalists some power rather than jail sentences , to make them ‘ deal with the world as it is rather than as they imagine it to be ’ . |
| 6 | What the theist claims is that by observing the world as it is , not by attempting to look outside it , one can see that it bears within itself a fundamental self-insufficiency . |
| 7 | In order to allow that spiritual dimension to breathe , in order to allow it to work its healing , transformative way , we have no option but to operate in the world as it is , and to operate as gradualists . |
| 8 | Sometimes social researchers are not able to achieve any control at all over the research setting , and are forced to observe the world as it occurs naturally . |
| 9 | It is Philistine not to see that a fact and a theory , simple components of tenuous knowledge , are a way not necessarily of controlling nature , but of coming to terms with it , of playing homage ; science is less arrogant in many ways than the arts of landscape or of poetising , mainly because it is content to describe the world as it is . |
| 10 | ‘ And will you find them , do you think ? ’ asked Felicity , who was quite content to accept the world as it was . |
| 11 | Or perhaps amphetamine just gives you an insight into the world as it really is |
| 12 | Busi 's books seek to strip away layers of deceit , show the world as it is , which perhaps explains the author 's penchant for attending his book launches in the nude . |
| 13 | She had seen the world as it really was , once . |
| 14 | John has been getting to know the world as it is in 1992 , and coming to terms with both dramatic political changes and the way friends have moved on in their lives . |
| 15 | Rationality can very properly be specified not in terms exclusively of methods supposed to lead to truth but more generally in terms of methods for reaching a consistent and comprehensive stance towards the world as it really is , something perfectly possible in ethical thought as the attitudinist describes it . |
| 16 | Anthony Burgess drew a distinction between Graham Greene 's serious novels which ‘ probe into the world as it really is ’ and the ‘ entertainments ’ which , he claimed , ‘ falsify the world , manipulate it ’ . |
| 17 | Carr and Morgenthau rejected the prescriptive and utopian elements in Idealism for the sake of a science which sees the world as it is . |
| 18 | ‘ [ Just as ] feminism identifies interrelatedness and mutuality-equal , respectful , and nurturing relationships — as the basis of the world as it really is and as it ought to be , we can find no better understanding and image of the divine than that of the perfect and open relationships of love . |
| 19 | Or again , independent nomic conditionals come to this : Given the rest of the world as it was , or given that it was different in any way we can conceive it as [ icing , without logically " excluding a and b , then if a happened so did b . |
| 20 | Again , we assert it since we accept ( i ) an independent nomic conditional roughly to the effect that in the world as it is , and within certain large limits as it might be , if it is raining and certain other things are the case , then the balcony is wet , and we also accept ( ii ) that those other things are the case . |
| 21 | To be more explicit , it is simplest to take the particular formulation of the independent conditional just suggested , and anticipated earlier ( 1.3 ) , in place of If R and C , even given any X consistent with R and C and W , then still W. That is , let us have this : Given the world as it is , or given any changes in it logically consistent with R and & and W , then if R and & then W. From these two things it follows-as from if A , then if B then C , and A , it follows that if B then C — that if R and C , then W. From this in turn , together with C , there follows the dependent conditional if R then W. To repeat , let us have the statement ( Y ) describing the actual events and conditions accompanying r and & in the world as it is , and the disjunctive statement ( K ) to the effect that the world is in one way or another otherwise , logically consistent with R and C , and W. Then our premisses and conclusion are as follows . |
| 22 | To be more explicit , it is simplest to take the particular formulation of the independent conditional just suggested , and anticipated earlier ( 1.3 ) , in place of If R and C , even given any X consistent with R and C and W , then still W. That is , let us have this : Given the world as it is , or given any changes in it logically consistent with R and & and W , then if R and & then W. From these two things it follows-as from if A , then if B then C , and A , it follows that if B then C — that if R and C , then W. From this in turn , together with C , there follows the dependent conditional if R then W. To repeat , let us have the statement ( Y ) describing the actual events and conditions accompanying r and & in the world as it is , and the disjunctive statement ( K ) to the effect that the world is in one way or another otherwise , logically consistent with R and C , and W. Then our premisses and conclusion are as follows . |
| 23 | The controlling element in this long development was not the ingenuity of men nor the pressure of society but the nature of the world as it was revealed to increasingly thorough investigation . |
| 24 | You are encouraged to question the world as it is and to ask how it might be better organized to meet individual and social needs and wants . |
| 25 | He ‘ carried ideology to the point of perfection , [ was ] incapable of perceiving the world as it is , [ and was ] totally dominated by an unreal vision of things . ’ |
| 26 | The Jews had to face the world as it was , and the world was one in which Greek customs prevailed and Roman proconsuls made the law . |
| 27 | In 1767 one of these thinkers , Lemercier de la Rivière , in his L'Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques ( 1767 ) , presented such a ruler as not legislating in any positive sense but merely declaring and applying fundamental laws which were immanent in the nature of things , in the structure of the world as it is and must be . |
| 28 | Your correspondent has re-read his report on the 1968 Glasgow Actuarial Students ’ supper and considers the article probably conveyed as much on his changing view of the world as it did on the supper itself . |
| 29 | To wind it round the world as it was being produced , the traffic police would object . |
| 30 | In the concrete conditions of the world as it is , a world largely structured by global capitalism , each of these TNPs is typieally , but not exclusively , characterized by a major institution . |