Example sentences of "[to-vb] the concept of [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our main concern has been to promote the concept of self-evaluation as a tool for management and improvement of services . |
| 2 | But when one sees the whole lot in full flower all at once in one individual or in the whole family , one comes to accept the concept of denial as a prime component of " the family illness " in which the family member is addicted to self-denial and caretaking for primary sufferer and even ( amazingly and hotly denied ) addicted to the continuation of the status-quo despite all its desperate features , just as the primary sufferer is addicted to the continuation of his or her own drinking or drug use despite its desperately damaging consequences . |
| 3 | For Robbe-Grillet in particular , this was also a philosophical and quasi-sociological necessity , mirroring the dehumanization and alienation of man in modern society — a critique which would later be adapted by the Marxist theorist Lucien Goldmann — in Pour une sociologie du roman ( 1964 ) — who was able to use the concept of reification as a means of explaining the chosisme of Robbe-Grillet 's early novels and the subversion of character in the nouveau roman generally . |
| 4 | Because he ‘ fails ’ to grasp the concept of pronouns as shifters ( the understanding of which is , in Irigaray 's terms , the necessary condition for entry into the discourse of the symbolic ) , they term him ‘ slow ’ ( 16 ) . |
| 5 | My object at this stage is simply to depose the concept of society as an organism in which , far more subtly than we can measure or identify ( it is only recently that we have begun to identify the chemical balance of the human organism of society ) , a certain balance between tendencies and elements , many in themselves dangerous , destructive and evil , has to be maintained as a condition of survival , but a balance which can be endangered , or lost , reversibly or irrevocably . |
| 6 | To recognize the transfer of contractual rights necessary for negotiability , the common law had to overcome the concept of property as a tangible object and of contract as a personal relationship . |