Example sentences of "to conceive of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This leads to problems when I try to conceive of my own knowing , believing or thinking in behaviourist terms . |
| 2 | On the other hand , we have mental activity which enables us , second-by-second , to conceive of ourselves as mental entities . |
| 3 | It does occur to Fukuyama that religion might have some sort of unease to express with all this , but he appears to conceive of religion under only two modes . |
| 4 | Although there had been a long established tradition of community and private forestry schemes , it was not until the launching of the Saemol Undong ( or New Community Movement ) in 1970 that it was possible to conceive of a nation-wide forestry policy and programme . |
| 5 | Connoisseurs of the self-referentiality of gay culture might care to note that the Pet Shop Boys ' Neil Tennant frequently lists Coward 's Sail Away as one of his favourite songs — it is hard to conceive of any other contemporary pop star having the wit or sly wisdom to make such a choice . |
| 6 | However , we will find it of much more use in the context here to conceive of a knowledge worker as someone who actually adds value to the message itself , and not just to the message 's package , by processes of analysis , judgement , and higher-level decision making . |
| 7 | The range of essentially economic issues revealed by the ensuing debate was such that it was almost impossible to conceive of the solution being affected by either brigade or club . |
| 8 | It is virtually impossible to conceive of a Type II system operating successfully with cash-limited Health Authorities . |
| 9 | Cawson 's arguments are persuasive , at least insofar as he confirms that it is difficult to conceive of any independent local corporatism , based on local classes and local producer groups . |
| 10 | Since it was of relatively minor importance to whom the words for setting up a trust were addressed , it was possible to conceive of the trust as inhering in certain property in the estate , and therefore of the recipient of that property as automatically in the position of trustee for the intended beneficiary . |
| 11 | The advent of the new political regime changed this ; for the first time it was possible to conceive of a legal order which rested on a basis different from that of the civil law . |
| 12 | Not only did it make it possible to conceive of the settlement , a succession of trusts , where a trust was set up in favour of a beneficiary who was himself charged with a trust in favour of a further beneficiary , but it also allowed trusts to be set up on intestacy , which led to the growth of an advanced system of property disposition on death which had absolutely no connection with a will . |
| 13 | It would be wrong to conceive of these two ‘ orders ’ as being respectively University and Ministry based , for both types of information may be collected at a number of levels including school and teacher 's centre level . |
| 14 | It is difficult to conceive of a surgical technique that would allow implantation and removal , with equal rapidity , in a blood contact situation . |
| 15 | Far from being a luxury or a peripheral activity , music often meets basic needs : ‘ There exist a good many people for whom music is so important that it is difficult for them to conceive of life without it . |
| 16 | It is difficult to conceive of such thinking taking place without the growth and development of intellectual ability . |
| 17 | It is possible , of course , to conceive of alternative biochemistries and other liquid states . |
| 18 | His reference to faith may explain how it is that he is able to conceive of the notion of absolute Truth which he calls God . |
| 19 | It would not be possible to conceive of Ultimate Concern apart from particular modes of religious discourse . |
| 20 | It has been suggested that it is tempting to conceive of morality as a guide to human conduct . |
| 21 | Winch 's contention is that to conceive of the relation of an act to the person who acts in terms of the Kantian maxim ‘ acting for the sake of duty ’ is mistaken since ‘ there is no general kind of behaviour of which we have to say that it is good without qualification ’ . |
| 22 | It is at least equally easy to conceive of a divide between Labour ( 35 per cent ) and anti-Labour ( the rest ) . |
| 23 | I think it is convenient , and not too misleading , to conceive of research outside the classroom , both of the soft speculative and the hard empirical varieties , as resulting in kinds of stereotypes . |
| 24 | It may be that this relexicalized version has not been actually attested and , may never occur in the future but it acquires normality because it is relatively easy to conceive of a context for it . |
| 25 | One is to conceive of them as being deliberately designed for the purposes they serve , the implication of which is that we should be constantly reforming existing institutions so that they may better serve those ends for which they were intended . |
| 26 | It is impossible to conceive of dialectical materialism without atheism , and it is this which underlies Marxism as an ideology . |
| 27 | However , I have argued that Mannheim 's sociology of knowledge is based on a social conception of human being ; he is extremely careful not to reduce thought to individual minds and not to conceive of a group ‘ mind ’ based on the prior conception of individual mind ( Mannheim 1936 : 2 , 44 ) . |
| 28 | In the case of the conscientious war-tax protester it is difficult to conceive of any such competing right which may be plausibly argued against them since their action neither threatens direct violence to others nor does it appear significantly to increase the risk of violent attack from elsewhere . |
| 29 | Volume shipments will start in July , at $1,231 apiece for quantities of over 10,000 — although it 's difficult to conceive of any third party able to forecast that it will ship 10,000 machines during the lifetime of the chip , and even the most optimistic parallel processor builder could hardly hope to ship that many nodes in any foreseeable time-frame . |
| 30 | None of them have the wherewithal to conceive of a Reconciliation . |