Example sentences of "[noun sg] as primarily a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has , in fact , been a tendency to avoid the issue and view self-esteem as primarily an enduring trait . |
| 2 | Since adherents of this first school regard college as primarily an intellectual training ground , they stress the inherent educational value of such subjects as classical languages ( Greek and Latin ) , political philosophy or English literature , all of which encourage the development of sensitivity , subtle and flexible reasoning , intellectual ingenuity and the willingness to see all sides of an argument . |
| 3 | ‘ If each partner comes to regard marriage as primarily a quest for his or her self-fulfilment , rather than as an adventure in reciprocal self-giving , through.which parents and children grow into maturity , then the outlook is likely to be bleak ’ ( John Stott , Issues Facing Christians Today , Marshalls , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | The principle of deduction is incorporated by seeing empirical investigation as primarily a procedure for testing theories through hypotheses deduced from the theory itself . |
| 5 | The theory being propounded here sees the global system as primarily a capitalist global system and the main forces in it as the transnational corporations , transnational capitalist classes and the culture-ideology of consumerism . |
| 6 | Some have seen apraxia as primarily a defect of execution , others have considered the problem to be one of planning or of conceptual organisation . |
| 7 | The meeting was described by US State Department spokeswoman as primarily a " get-acquainted session " . |
| 8 | Yet another reason for regarding romantic suspense as primarily a woman 's art ( though I enjoy reading them , and so do many other old male chauvinists ) is that the archetypal situation they describe echoes the situation of women through the ages . |