Example sentences of "[prep] a tradition [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the continuation of a tradition of appointed local boards can not be taken as a vote of confidence in their predecessors . |
| 2 | ‘ My father never glorified war , but we were always aware of a tradition of service . ’ |
| 3 | Indeed , not only the earlier act but God 's especial blessings to the British nation in the form of a tradition of civil liberties imposed a particular duty on it to act as exemplar to other nations and work for emancipation . |
| 4 | Fourth , the IFL was associated with secretive underground activities which implicated it as one of the originators of a tradition of direct action and racial violence against immigrants . |
| 5 | When viewed in this light Robert Summers 's thesis that the legal realist movement should best be seen as part of a tradition of ‘ pragmatic instrumentalism ’ in American jurisprudence seems basically correct . |
| 6 | The struggle to survive of a tradition of survival |
| 7 | Matisse comes at the end of a tradition of Renaissance illusionism and volumetric painting which is irrevocably shifting into something different and he wants it both ways , just as Giotto wanted it both ways . |
| 8 | This was in the spirit of a tradition of respect for literature , as a way to discuss the ills of society . |
| 9 | Deprived of a tradition of open and rational intellectual debate , let alone a political forum , they uncritically swallowed whole the most fantastic dreams and schemes . |
| 10 | Bates 's ‘ Pandora ’ epitomises the end of a tradition of representing the figure in sculpture which emphasised the need for a beauty of surface ( high finish coupled with high quality materials ) combined with elevated subject-matter . |
| 11 | Indeed , Dahl locates the questions that he poses in New Haven in the context of a tradition of inquiry dating back to de Tocqueville . |
| 12 | If these arrangements are part of a tradition of mosaic design , however , they must , nonetheless , have been easily recognizable and , therefore , the subject of some small degree of assent or choice by the client and his mosaicist . |
| 13 | There 's more of a tradition for that in Northern Ireland , ’ she says . |
| 14 | I am not sure whether John was aware of a tradition among some of his distant cousins that the family originated from Poland , possibly in a Count Cranko , romantically supposed to have been descended from the founder of the city of Krakow . |
| 15 | Hard-wearing outdoor shirts and trousers are something of a tradition in the US and on the Continent and , where weight is not at a premium , I really like to wear slightly thicker fabrics which offer a little more comfort and warmth . |
| 16 | They and the opposition are up against a tradition of oppression that goes back to Tamerlane . |
| 17 | just as Peter Slade had to stand up against a tradition of formalised children 's drama , so Brian Way had to educate teachers into understanding that children deserved something better than light entertainment . |
| 18 | That the semi-official history of the party should have eschewed discussion of Conservatism as an ideology is not surprising , but a prominent British Marxist scholar has conceded that ‘ the Tory tradition is not best understood as a tradition of ideas ’ and the introduction to a recent collection of essays on Edwardian Conservatism also accepts that ‘ Conservatism is not an ideology , but a frame of mind , an outlook , a general approach ’ . |
| 19 | It has been romanticized as a tradition of public service when much of it was about the protection of vested interests . |
| 20 | The emphasis here is on politics as a tradition of behaviour . |
| 21 | Since Leopold ruled a small State and had neither fears nor ambitions so far as territorial changes were concerned ( he wished to establish the perpetual neutrality of the Grand Duchy as a tradition of European diplomacy , to give it more or less the status which Switzerland was to enjoy in the following century ) he was able to accept radical ideas and even try to realize them in practice in a way quite impossible to Frederick II or Catherine II . |
| 22 | It is an exploration of [ a ] vocabulary … which has been inherited within precise social and historical conditions and which has to be made at once conscious and critical — subject to change as well as continuity — if the millions of people in whom it is active are to see it as active : not as a tradition to be learned , nor a consensus to be accepted ; … but as a vocabulary to use , to find our ways in , to change as we find it necessary to change it , as we go on making our own language and history . |
| 23 | One of the things that he objected to about a tradition of painting that was governed by a scientific , single viewpoint system of perspective was that it gave the spectator an incomplete picture or idea about the subject . |
| 24 | This was work with a tradition of culture and self-improvement . |
| 25 | Fortunately , frustration surfaced only in sporadic back-chat , but when teams such as Kelso and Heriot 's , each with a tradition of expansive back play , fail to put on a show in glorious conditions something , surely , is wrong . |
| 26 | There has been pleasure in the relaxed atmosphere of an area free from racial and colour prejudice , and with a tradition of hospitality . |
| 27 | A background of professional investment management , coupled with a tradition of over 160 years successful investment performance , provides the key to the continuing success of the Clerical Medical Investment Group . |
| 28 | Generally the area may feel remote and out of touch with modem life , perhaps with a tradition of witchcraft . |
| 29 | Thus , what is said about the text is contingent on the nature of those institutions : it will differ across literate societies , as it does for instance between those with a tradition of novel-writing or of academic institutions etc. and those without , and its consequence will depend on the social role , functions and meanings of its practice . |
| 30 | Many of its members , particularly within the duchy of Lancaster , were men with a tradition of service to the crown , compared with which their Woodville connection was only transient . |