Example sentences of "[prep] relation to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God , the recognition that even the most primitive feelings should be part of our heritage , seems to me to be the explanation and justification of the life of
2 Those other features revealed in various divine forms were simply ignored , in particular with relation to Osiris and the afterlife .
3 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 .
4 If you read that er book er from the Commission you will find their very first goal is in relation to nursery education in deprived areas and the panel 's looking at that , looking at indicators of , of deprivation as well as erm the .
5 While progressive Labour councils declared their intentions to address the expectations of women , of black people and disabled people , it was by no means clear that they would do so in relation to lesbians and gays .
6 The inding which stimulated this study was generated in the context of multiple significance testing across a wide range of diseases in relation to cimetidine .
7 In relation to PC Cherry , who had to wait the same period before being summonsed , Lord Justice Watkins said the delay after April 1987 , when there was ample evidence to sustain a prima facie case against him , was ‘ undoubtedly extreme ’ .
8 This licence plays the same part in relation to seamen 's canteens as a licence granted under Part It of the Act in relation to licensed premises .
9 Although Schedule 17 comes into force only on a day still to be appointed , when it does come into force it seems it will apply in relation to debt instruments already in existence .
10 The Commons Treasury and Civil Service committee said the Bank had ‘ failed to discharge its supervisory duties ’ in relation to BCCI .
11 The problems of such an approach can be easily identified in relation to Stubbs ' description above of the varied functions of literacy .
12 The other limiting factor in relation to flower pollination and fruit setting is weather .
13 This implies that the accountability of central government in relation to policing is the more important problem to address .
14 RTPA 1976 applies to agreements or arrangements between two or more persons carrying on business in the United Kingdom in the production or supply of goods or services or in the application of a manufacturing process to goods , being agreements in which two or more of the parties accept restrictions in respect of the matters contained in RTPA 1976 , s6 in relation to goods and those contained in reg 3(2) of statutory instrument ( SI ) 1976/98 in relation to services .
15 In recognizing that child abuse and child care are not discrete areas we should start from the premise that the understanding and skills developed in relation to child care should inform our approach to child abuse .
16 What is apparent is that the risk factors identified run parallel to and are in many respects very similar to those already noted in relation to child abuse .
17 In relation to child care , for example , she documents how assistance given by mothers to daughters typically is more extensive than between sisters .
18 In relation to child care policy , this fear of undermining responsibility results from a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of parents , and reinforces the antipathy between public and private care of children .
19 Teachers clearly have an important role in relation to child abuse .
20 The following year Arthur Woods directed They Drive by Night ( 1938 ) , which makes evocative use of such ordinary English surroundings as a dance palace and the roadside cafés along the Great North Road for the story of an ex-convict hunted for a murder he did n't commit , who comes back to London to hunt down the real killer , a weirdo with books like Sex in Relation to Society and The Thrill of Evil in his briefcase .
21 At the higher levels of education scientists , economists and others who may play a future role in policy making , research and administration must be helped to understand the problems of disadvantaged areas in relation to society and the economy as a whole .
22 This in turn describes the function of the individual in relation to society — any agency attributed to the individual is subordinated to the maintenance of social structure .
23 It does not say anything explicit about the legitimacy of corporate power in relation to society generally .
24 The function of their role we see as being , like that of the deviant in relation to society , the visible demonstration of the limits to ‘ legitimate ’ action .
25 At a wider level , in relation to society as a whole , it might equally be questioned how dominant collectivism and state provision have ever been in the US .
26 Structuralists did not believe in examining the text in relation to society — although they did believe in examining the relationships within texts and between texts — nor in examining it as a work with moral significance ; the aim was simply to lay bare the universal structures which were hidden within it .
27 Adorno speaks from the vantage-point of modernism ( though , as we have seen , he arguably gives this too monolithic an interpretation ) : his ideal is an individual critique , which is negative in relation to society but also constitutes a positive synthesis — an alternative .
28 To understand any part of society , such as the family or religion , the part must be seen in relation to society as a whole .
29 ‘ Impaired ’ and ‘ defective ’ are also self-explanatory terms used in relation to vision , sometimes with the addition of ‘ severe ’ to emphasise the degree .
30 In relation to Permian subcrop pattern ( Fig. 12 ) these areas are seen generally to overlie areas of Westphalian A and B subcrop .
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