Example sentences of "in relation to " in BNC.
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| 1 | embed sentences in relations to reality in such a way that they can take on the general pragmatic functions of representation , expression and establishing interpersonal relations . |
| 2 | In evolving the final arrangement of elements for The Wealth of Nations the artist began with a series of drawings and models set in relations to the building . |
| 3 | His role in relation to the disturbances is never really clarified , nor is that of Stephens , an intelligent boy who deserts the Grange , is in touch with the gangs , and is murdered . |
| 4 | Later still , the analyst suggests that Fraser may want to offer reparation , by writing this book , for the guilt he had felt in relation to his father , and Fraser asks : ‘ For wanting to destroy him so I could have my mother to myself ? ’ |
| 5 | Philip Roth 's contribution to The Facts is ( as distinct from Nathan Zuckerman 's ) significantly milder , in relation to family matters , than what we get in these abrasive comic fictions : but then the fictions can be nice too . |
| 6 | This is a generic something : I am speaking here of a literary practice long and widely and variously undertaken , in relation to which Roth is both critic and executant . |
| 7 | The article leads you to wonder about her religious faith , if she has one , and about where it stands in relation to the outlook of the editor of Commentary , author of a book about his ambitions for worldly success : Making it must be the least pious book that has ever been written . |
| 8 | As a party , it really only exercised a modicum of power in relation to the Stormont administration . |
| 9 | Sense of my own helplessness in relation to it , he wrote . |
| 10 | To place one item , one element , in relation to all the others , and yet to keep space open for further elements . |
| 11 | We will look at the new Channel in relation to existing television whether broadcast , satellite or cable . |
| 12 | At the instant of applying the excess rudder , it speeds up the outer wing-tip , creating more lift there , and gives the inner wing ‘ sweep back ’ in relation to the airflow , thus increasing the tendency to tip stall on that wing while reducing it on the other . |
| 13 | In fact , the rudder power of most gliders is very poor in relation to the huge inertia of the heavy , long-span wings , and there may not be any visible effect when opposite rudder is applied in an incipient spin . |
| 14 | The only safeguard is to maintain the correct position carefully and to release at once if the glider is beginning to get too high in relation to the towplane . |
| 15 | It is in relation to this area of activity that recent moves towards systematic amalgamation , centralization , and mutual aid seem to have been made . |
| 16 | However , a colleague looking at these OSUs in relation to their cultural impact , saw there were many aspects of a qualitative nature which could not easily be expressed in fiscal terms ( Adams 1988 : 11 ) : |
| 17 | Seeking to unravel police decision-making in relation to the classification of crimes , McCabe and Sutcliffe ( ibid. ) admitted that as outsiders they were usually not quick enough to grasp the nuances of what was taking place before them . |
| 18 | Inevitably , I noted these criticisms were rarely in relation to what he had said ( few had actually read the book ) , but rather were expressions of shocked outrage that he had failed to keep silent and say nothing at all . |
| 19 | It is the marker of ‘ force ’ and hence continues to sustain the continuing paradox of ‘ police force — police service ’ which remains unresolved , on which I will say more later in relation to the role of women police officers . |
| 20 | Quite often the divisional boundaries in the amalgamated force mirror the old , small force boundaries and men define themselves in relation to their early experience with perhaps an inner city ethic , a large-town police style , or in the framework of a more rural situation . |
| 21 | Four years later , as I mentioned above , I was party to the same fear at Bramshill , in relation to the use of the Nato sweater . |
| 22 | One further consequence of attributing pre-eminence to quantity in relation to detection rates means that the ‘ prig ’ who ‘ clears his slate ’ ( admits to lots of crimes , no matter how trivial ) becomes a prized catch , simply because he helps the figures . |
| 23 | Once again the language is vital to the analysis , for the term ‘ juggling ’ is widely used in relation to detection rates and carries with it an understanding that what is happening belongs to a world where movement conceals as often as it reveals . |
| 24 | Inevitably , over such a long period , I became less institutionalized , more able to function as an individual in relation to belief and action and not merely accept the organization 's definition of things ; and this is a profoundly un-police like state of affairs ! |
| 25 | This acquisition of special knowledge meant that when I was called to give evidence to the Advisory Council on Drug Abuse ( chaired by Baroness Wooton ) on the use of cannabis , I was perhaps more inclined to dwell on the symbolic dangers attributed to its use than on any alleged physical harm , simply because I was now aware that any reality in relation to cannabis use was more complex than could be contained in some easy binary of social value — medical debilitation . |
| 26 | Karate competition is biased in favour of long-limbed individuals who have good reach in relation to their weight . |
| 27 | As this content will involve the movement of bodies through space and time in relation to other bodies , an understanding of ‘ behaviour ’ presupposes a general grasp on the layout and nature of the physical world . |
| 28 | Each of the ‘ sentences ’ in the network only has meaning in terms of its relations to other sentences , and each of these sentences only has meaning in relation to others , and so on . |
| 29 | But how can a sentence have a causal role in relation to other sentences if the second sentence 's causal role is defined in terms of its relation to the first sentence ? |
| 30 | It is this : saying that the character of ‘ mental representations ’ ( beliefs and imaginings , for example ) can be understood only in terms of a history of activity , or that it is the subject 's conception of himself as active in relation to the world which gives these ‘ representations ’ their ‘ content ’ or ‘ semantics ’ ( I hope to have shown something like this ) is simply irrelevant to the mind-body problem . |