Example sentences of "conceived [prep] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neutrality is sometimes conceived of as being necessarily at least prima facie desirable . |
| 2 | In no way is the process conceived of as moving sequentially along the lines of print ’ ( Chapman , 1987 , p.6 ) . |
| 3 | To some extent , however , Parliament goes off ‘ half-cocked ’ — a Bill is conceived of as being urgent and is introduced before all its complexities have been thoroughly worked through . |
| 4 | He argued that the life instincts ( the erotic impulses ) could be conceived of as being the chief influence for redirecting the destructive instincts of the individual . |
| 5 | In this chapter I shall be considering some of the great historical Western moral philosophers of the past , confining myself , however , to the period of modern philosophy , which is usually conceived of as starting in the seventeenth century . |
| 6 | Through the distinctions he makes between civil association and enterprise association and between the state conceived of as societas and universitas we can begin to understand the intellectual foundations of the tension within normativist thought between law and administrative power . |
| 7 | At this point in the theory , the Nirvana principle is conceived of as deriving its energy from the death instincts , and the pleasure principle serves these too sometimes , and therefore it loses its former primacy in the unconscious life of man . |
| 8 | Any pain you can conceive of as hurting in just the same way as yours hurt must be conceived of as hurting you . |
| 9 | A pain conceived of as being in another body is not yet conceived of as hurting another person . |
| 10 | A pain conceived of as being in another body is not yet conceived of as hurting another person . |
| 11 | This level of pay was never conceived of as being a realizable objective for a statutory minimum wage that would be brought in over a short period of time . |
| 12 | Like absolute knowledge , operational thought is conceived of as representing the final balance between the processes of externalization ( assimilation as projection ) and embodiment ( accommodation as introjection ) , which have been held in asymmetrical relations in all previous stages . |
| 13 | The changes emerging from the Community Care legislation in the United Kingdom , like other countries , can be conceived of as constituting in general terms a move from institution based care , an accompanying move to enhance home-based care and the development of improved mechanisms of co-ordination and enhanced case management ( Challis , 1992a ) . |
| 14 | In some countries of Europe clearly the democratic institutions are stronger and more deeply rooted than in others ; but even where they are weak , the process of political development is conceived of as being one of moving towards a stronger form of democracy and dictatorship is seen as a deviation from the norm . |
| 15 | While the powers of the Commission to initiate policy may be conceived of as those normally possessed de facto by an unelected civil service , the powers of interpretation and of law-making are in a true democracy the preserve of the judiciary and elected legislature . |
| 16 | For example , a social welfare budget might be created in that the taxes conceived of as paying for programmes could be allocated in line with the volume of social welfare benefits provided . |
| 17 | Within the Western world the notion that land can be conceived of as property is so deeply embedded an ideology as to have become " self-evident " . |
| 18 | In this book Nash brings together those works of popular fiction ( hereafter popfiction ) , which are traditionally conceived of as lying outside the literary canon and linguistic theories pertaining to discourse analysis and the stylistic analysis of fiction . |