Example sentences of "[adj] relation to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But associative feminist initiatives also achieve some highly cautious , undramatic discursive shifts , which do not reduce social relations to side-effects of individual subjectivities . |
| 2 | This seems to happen retrospectively , for it is the simple past tense of 'shin " d " which enables us to read the deixis of " those early dayes ' in a particular way , in direct relation to 'shin " d " . |
| 3 | Back in Massachusetts , Taylor had learned that the amount of energy an animal uses increases in direct relation to speed and body mass . |
| 4 | It was the enlightened afrancesados who were to confuse political issues by their peculiar relation to liberalism . |
| 5 | However , looked at from another point of view , all externalizations of psychological conflict , be they morphologically neurotic , manic-depressive or psychotic , bring the ego into a disturbed , conflict-ridden relation to reality which renders all externalized psychopathology psychotic to that extent . |
| 6 | The aim is to investigate and explain this shift using the particular example of the English relation to Jamaica . |
| 7 | This possibility of resumption , of the fulfilment of the promise of endless flow temporarily threatened by interruption , seems to me to operate in a quite different way than the cinematic cut , occupying a different structure of time , a different relation to fantasy , and motivated less by desire , loss and lack . |
| 8 | She 'd come into the women 's group after the others had spent some time talking about their individual relations to femaleness ; feminism for her was a safe place , a rhetoric spoken to her by other women , a description they made of her , a set of ideas they had worked out and which she acquired to wear as a badge . |
| 9 | What is essentially distinct from the Newbolt strategy is the altered relation to state and public policy . |
| 10 | But in the case of human relations to animals , the analogues to such thoughts are simply correct . |
| 11 | Intriguingly foreshadowing our contemporary women 's liberation movement , some of these stalwart Victorians envisaged that the evolutionary struggle then involved domination by the female since , they argued , women first rebelled against these loose promiscuous relations to queen it over men . |
| 12 | We might compare this ethical relation to Cixous ' remarks about the need to love the other or Kristeva 's recent preoccupation with love which , from this perspective , hardly involves the sudden apostasy of which she has been accused , but rather as for Levinas consists of a way of formulating a ‘ responsibility for the Other , being-for-the-other ’ . |
| 13 | The revolutionary intelligentsia did draw extensively upon socialist currents of thought imported from the West and much of the factional in-fighting and abstruse philosophical controversy among émigrés bore little relation to developments within Russia . |
| 14 | On one view , Professor Elton 's , the organization described in the Edwardian ordinances ‘ bore little relation to reality ’ ; it was Cromwell who gave concrete and lasting form to otherwise pious aspirations . |
| 15 | But it is accepted by physicalists of all kinds that the meaning or semantic value of internal states must be analysed in terms of their causal relations to stimulus and response , just as it is for the behaviourist 's dispositions , and is not something they possess in their own right , or of themselves . |
| 16 | Feminism has had a complex relation to psychoanalysis . |
| 17 | It seems to me that the impossibility of desire , and its exclusive relation to fantasy , has to be qualified in the face of the possibility — always implied by interruption — of resumption , of a return to normal service . |
| 18 | As a centre of culture , and a meeting place of civilizations , Cordoba remained vitally important through the days when the Jewish philosopher Maimonides was born there in the twelfth century and the Arab philosopher Averroes lived there in the thirteenth ; as a representative of a medieval city it is as eccentric as Palermo — indeed far more so ; for the cathedral at its centre is a mosque slightly disguised ; and the beauty and immense and impressive size of the mosque are constant reminders to the modern visitor that Christendom was a poor relation to Islam , perhaps in many senses , in the period between the eighth and the tenth centuries when it was built . |
| 19 | Comparison of the second equation of the pair ( 10.8 ) with the second equation of the pair ( 10.12 ) immediately reveals that for a given network Also , elimination of between equations ( 10.12 ) and comparison of the resulting equation with the first equation of the pair ( 10.8 ) establishes that for a given network It is a matter of simple algebraic manipulation to show that the inverse relations to equations ( 10.13 ) and ( 10.14 ) are ; ; |
| 20 | But none of the above-mentioned theorists works this logic through in terms of the male-female relationship and the respective relation to language of men and women ; this is accomplished by Irigaray and Kristeva whose writings are interpolated into the novel , like the quotation from Shakespeare in Between , as the agent of parody rather than as its object . |
| 21 | The theory , in all its latest elusiveness , might suit Tristan , more or less , but continued to stand in a highly problematic relation to Wagner 's musical oeuvre as a whole — an oeuvre surely too varied for any useful all-embracing formula . |
| 22 | The world 's economic relation to Europe has already been touched on ; it was not simply a matter of one-way domination . |
| 23 | McCann explores the backgrounds , inner conflicts and rise to stardom of the three , comparing their tormented relation to Hollywood and each other . |
| 24 | Individual properties are parts of events or in a related relation to events , however events are conceived . |
| 25 | The parallelism may be less transparent : in 22 foot and scrutinise have a parallel relation to bill , and in 23 foot and add up have a parallel relation to bill . |
| 26 | The parallelism may be less transparent : in 22 foot and scrutinise have a parallel relation to bill , and in 23 foot and add up have a parallel relation to bill . |
| 27 | Social systems evolve in close relation to ecology . |
| 28 | Instead , it has been suggested that the object tends towards presentational form , which can not be broken up as though into grammatical sub-units , and as such it appears to have a particularly close relation to emotions , feelings and basic orientations to the world . |
| 29 | She suggests that this was perhaps because women have traditionally been seen as having a passive relation to language which is similar to that of a simultaneous interpreter who translates the ideas of others but does not produce any of her own ( 32 ) . |
| 30 | But in none of the above cases do the manoeuvres by which the main character resists her passive relation to language engage her in active polemic with other texts . |