Example sentences of "[det] discussion " in BNC.

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1 The Orthodox Churches have started to have some discussions of the issue , which suggests that they are not necessarily completely closed to the idea .
2 Rachel Maybank had previously been involved in some discussions , Peter West agreed to talk to her and shop stewards .
3 There are a couple of the procedures now that in the light of this morning 's discussion that I think I can certainly circulate what are done , but they wo n't in , by any means now be final , and I also received this morning from Richard some discussions .
4 Well we do have erm some discussions seminars where between ten and fifteen students are able to discuss matters relating to the course .
5 ‘ There are ’ , he said , ‘ very few discussions of Government decisions by full Cabinet . ’
6 Concern with the nature and structure of knowledge is a continuing if not always explicit aspect of many subjects , but few discussions go beyond the single discipline or field .
7 This discussion paper considers points made in the Review and in the working papers .
8 The points raised in this discussion paper are based on existing Age Concern policies .
9 What we 've been shown in the Report , and what has , ah , emerged from this discussion , is that for some fifteen years , we engaged in a game of blind man 's buff .
10 This discussion may be based entirely on ‘ gut feel ’ or on more objective things like statistics of record sales or radio play .
11 So it is worth recalling at the outset of this discussion that it is in these senses that the female cross-dresser of the early seventeenth century could be described as an ‘ invert ’ or ‘ pervert ’ , and hardly at all in the sense of those words as coined and popularized by the nineteenth-century sexologists and , later , psychoanalysis .
12 I only mean to preface this discussion of cultural difference with an awkward question : in the world we have , is it possible for us — any of us — not to have at least some inferior others ?
13 This discussion of the primacy of communal property is a point central to Marx 's whole work , and the pleasure he gained in its confirmation in the work of Morgan seems to me to be the only really clear element to emerge from the notebooks .
14 The main element of this discussion again comes from Morgan and concerns the description of what he calls the ‘ gentile constitution ’ .
15 But the difficulty with this discussion is that it lacks a firm point of reference because it can not be taken for granted that there should be two levels of offence , rape and procuring sex by threats .
16 I would now like to turn to the symbol of the Virgin Mary in the light of this discussion .
17 The second limitation of this discussion is that it will concentrate on the Graeco-Roman world , as this was a period when coin designs were at their most varied .
18 So she smiled on and stood there and in exasperation Mrs Browning said , ‘ I do not know that we should continue this discussion , Wilson .
19 Indeed , in this discussion Qaddafi mentions women only once , in what is in effect a recommendation to endogamy :
20 Only Judi could get to her so quickly , and only this discussion could push her over the edge .
21 I began this discussion by saying that adherence to systematic nomenclature is a limiting kind of freedom .
22 It would make the writing of this chapter easier if I could call a halt on this discussion of the relationship between dramatic playing and performance and change the topic .
23 Several of the proposals were accepted but , in other cases , subject staff put forward arguments for a higher weighting This discussion gave faculty heads a chance to learn about the requirements of their colleagues and to justify their own weightings .
24 But it may be , as this discussion suggests , that whilst the confusion Ayer points to is a real one , the meaning of the word ‘ existence ’ is genuinely complex .
25 For the purposes of this discussion it is best to avoid the term working class literature , in favour of terms which are less polemically charged , such as labouring poets , or even labouring class poets .
26 The problem with placing Mary Leapor within this discussion is that it is not certain that she read any of the poems with which these critics are primarily concerned .
27 ‘ Professionalism ’ and ‘ relationships ’ ( or ‘ confidential relationships ’ ) are also relevant words in this discussion which may be used in a way that is highly supportive of , or very antagonistic to , access to information by the person to whom it relates .
28 So far in this discussion the emphasis has been on the voluntary nature of the ‘ obligations ’ of the active citizen , which is to be encouraged through the educational system and in other ways about which , it must be said , there is fairly broad agreement across the political spectrum .
29 Presumably it eventually dies , but that is less important than it seems to us mortals ; as far as this discussion is concerned the end of the cycle is reached when the present organism reproduces and a new generation 's cycle begins .
30 In noting such comments , it is appropriate to recall that this discussion must be seen against a background described with some outrage by many commentators .
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