Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] as the " in BNC.
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| 31 | For Marshall McLuhan and his followers , the proliferation of media as the extensions of our sensory system has an immense importance , and much effort has been expended in defining whether a particular medium is " cold " or " hot " and in declaring the unity of medium and message . |
| 32 | What unites such theorists , then , is their conception of the individual , the assertion of a particular conception of liberty as the supreme principle , a set of broadly shared attitudes on the character of state power and the relationship between the individual and the state , and an understanding that law should be non-purposive in character . |
| 33 | Like Leavis , Pinto sees the pre-war pattern of English studies as blocking the development of a new conception of English as the centre of humanistic studies in a modern university . |
| 34 | The value of Black 's theory lies in the fact that it allows for a conception of metaphor as the interaction between two discourses , but like Goodman 's concept of imperial appropriation , it has overtones of subjugation . |
| 35 | He spelt out a clear conception of force as the cause of acceleration rather than motion , a conception that had been present in a somewhat confused way in the writings of Galileo and Kepler . |
| 36 | The Attorney-General raised a further constitutional point , namely , that for the court to use Parliamentary material in construing legislation would be to confuse the respective roles of Parliament as the maker of law and the courts as the interpreter . |
| 37 | Jazzman Dexter Gordon in his final role as the awakened musician/dreamer Rolando proves he could have not one but two brilliant careers , old stage trouper Gloria Harper gives her awakened mad flapper full flight and John Heard is a rock of cynicism as the hard bitten hospital administrator . |
| 38 | This could happen , for instance , if one were using faculty lists of students as the sample frame and there were certain students in special departments who were not in any faculty . |
| 39 | Then more feet , the slam of a door , the surge of power as the Rover shot away to look at the next corner . |
| 40 | Treasurer gave the figure of £281 as the approximate balance in favour of the Society . |
| 41 | In a report to Wirral policy and resources committee finance director Ian Wood has identified a figure of £27.1m as the likely total write-off from three years of poll tax collection . |
| 42 | From what I can recall of his earlier set for EMI ( 12/85 ) , these more recent 1991 recordings ( made in Hanover 's Beethovensaal ) certainly demonstrate a recognition of discretion as the better part of valour . |
| 43 | Stressed monosyllables enforce the recognition of Jesus as the goal of longing : " I have soght " . |
| 44 | The following year provided hard evidence for the case for total communication and recognition of BSL as the language of the deaf . |
| 45 | Accountants have been given a vote of confidence as the most understanding and helpful advisers for British private companies , by the 1,000 owner-directors involved in a recent survey by The Director magazine and Pannell Kerr Forster . |
| 46 | The Duke of York is on naval duties which left the Queen , the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duchess of Kent as the only Royal Family members at Ascot . |
| 47 | The Duke of York is on naval duties which left the Queen , the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duchess of Kent as the only Royal Family members at Ascot . |
| 48 | Another momentous occasion in the Convocation Calendar has been the INSTALLATION OF THE DUCHESS OF YORK AS THE NEW CHANCELLOR of the University in September 1991 amidst much pomp and ceremony and with many distinguished guests . |
| 49 | The above review of the branches of geomorphology would perhaps indicate that the increasing emphasis upon process was accompanied by increasing fragmentation of geomorphology as the branches each became more closely associated with other disciplines . |
| 50 | As we have seen , individualists are anxious to explain social states of affairs as the outcome of individual actions and attitudes which can not themselves be explained as the outcome of social states of affairs . |
| 51 | Mr Maude : I am not sure that I regard the nation states of Europe as the lower orders . |
| 52 | Marxism 's main flaw is its insistence on economics and the economic category of class as the one fundamental explanatory factor . |
| 53 | As a result of seeing part of knowledge as the whole , ‘ rationalists ’ , Oakeshott contends , over-estimate their abilities to define and solve problems , whereas reason proper indicates the need for caution in assessing the scope of human capability . |
| 54 | The draft on revelation ( and a companion , ‘ On preserving the deposit of faith in its purity ’ , also rejected ) were prepared mainly by theologians of this tendency , who had been brought up to think of modernism as the most fundamental , comprehensive and insidious of all heresies . |
| 55 | 77 and 78 , from London ; Neal 1981 , no. 52 , from Gloucester ) , this is the only instance of Bacchus as the focus of such an arrangement . |
| 56 | After this digression , we return to the falsificationist conception of the progress of science as the progression from problems to speculative hypotheses , to their criticism and eventual falsification and thence to new problems . |
| 57 | Lady Althorp sued for custody of the children , an action started with every hope of success as the mother usually wins — unless the father is a nobleman . |
| 58 | But that was perhaps not enough , and he went on to explain to the congregation and to the Prince of Wales as the new President that there was a ‘ more searching question ’ to be asked about validation : |
| 59 | It was not so much the existence of war as the manner of fighting it which aroused the criticism of an increasingly outspoken body of persons who reflected the views of society in the growing vernacular literature and poetry of the time . |
| 60 | We may also note that certain verbs seem to have the notion of change of state as the principal part of their meaning , not only make ( in one of its values ) as already cited , but also have ( again in one of its meanings ; see Chapter 9 for other uses ) , and render . |