Example sentences of "as expressing a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willis ' account , relying upon Marxist interpretation of the data , portrayed the lads as expressing a kind of rebellion , for in doing so they had developed an awareness of their class position . |
| 2 | On the whole they are best regarded as expressing a desire to maintain and demonstrate right relations between God , man and his neighbour . |
| 3 | The distinction of meaning is especially clear with perfect participles ; these show a well-known alternation between interpretation as expressing an event ( therefore the occasion value ) and interpretation as expressing a state : ( 23 ) labelled goods vs sent goods The word sent is unusual prenominally precisely because it has the sort of meaning which makes an actual or implicit reference to the event of despatch , and hence it is far more likely to be used post-nominally . |
| 4 | By contrast the single malignant polyp identified as expressing a mutant type p53 protein did not seem to contain a mutation at codon 12 of the K-ras gene , although obviously we can not current exclude the presence of codon 13 or 61 mutations . |
| 5 | This implies in turn that in its use with the modal auxiliaries the bare infinitive can be analysed as expressing a potentiality coinciding in time with another potentiality ( the modal 's event ) . |
| 6 | We assume , in both the individual and the political cases , that we can recognize other people 's acts as expressing a conception of fairness or justice or decency even when we do not endorse that conception ourselves . |
| 7 | Integrity is flouted not only in specific compromises of that character , however , but whenever a community enacts and enforces different laws each of which is coherent in itself , but which can not be defended together as expressing a coherent ranking of different principles of justice or fairness or procedural due process . |