Example sentences of "the origin " in BNC.
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| 1 | The killing in Hrothgar 's meadhall described in the ensuing passage was clearly the origin of the many Country House murders which were to feature in Hercule Poirot 's investigations . |
| 2 | It may not have been the origin of his interest in such people but clearly played a formative part in his development . |
| 3 | On the contrary , it exposes the explanatory weakness of the Muller Doctrine , if it is offered as an advance in our understanding of the origin of different modalities of sensation , of why the world feels as it does ; and , even more , if it is offered as an account of our being able to feel the world at all . |
| 4 | AS CAMRA 's Brewery Liaison Officer for Newcastle Breweries I have followed the discussions in these columns concerning the origin of Theakston 's beers with interest . |
| 5 | I 've often wondered about the origin of Evan 's encyclopaedic knowledge on this topic . |
| 6 | The other , which is no longer turned toward the origin , affirms play and tries to pass beyond man and humanism … |
| 7 | Two US scientists have been awarded the chemistry prize for a discovery that has changed scientists ’ views about the origin of life . |
| 8 | Dept. of Geology has worldwide collections of minerals and gemstones and over 100,000 fossils plus displays of animals and plants of Ireland , the Origin , Structure and Evolution of Life and The Variety of Life . |
| 9 | Therefore , on historical precedent , in contemplating the origin of a modern archbishop we would expect him to be educated at Oxford or Cambridge ; to have a good chance that he taught there ; and to be the son or grandson of a Christian minister . |
| 10 | Thunder was associated with the Revelation story of death and rebirth ( see , for example , Rev. 8 : 5 ) , with Australian rainmaking , with the Grail story lightning , and with the origin of drama . |
| 11 | After exhausting the gamut of expression from Cockney pub-talk to Dante , and running across the broad acres of comparative religion from intichiuma to St Magnus Martyr , Eliot seems to be generating the commands of a new religion reborn from the old , by returning in his rainmaking to the origin of religious rites . |
| 12 | But Durkheim , Eliot noted , did not attribute the origin of religion to wonder or to speculation , but saw in mythology only the savage 's attempt to rationalize and justify his religious practices , ‘ in regard to the true origin of which he is as much in the dark as the scientific investigator ’ . |
| 13 | In W. J. Perry 's The Origin of Magic and Religion which he reviewed in July 1924 , four months before these lines appeared , Eliot read of ‘ old stone images ’ of the Melanesians , of mana , of the handing down of rituals , and of W. H. R. Rivers 's work on ‘ an extensive literature in which attempts are made to bring the symbolism of myth and ritual into relation with modern views concerning its rôle in the dream and disease ’ . |
| 14 | Eliot was fascinated by the idea which Cornford had put forward ‘ in ‘ The Origin of Attic Comedy ’ , [ that ] this [ medicine-man ] Doctor may be identical with the Doctor who is called in to assist Punch after he has been thrown by his horse' . |
| 15 | This reveals a mutual awareness of theories of the origin of Attic comedy in fertility ritual . |
| 16 | Already we have seen Eliot 's interest in the connection between the medicine men and Punch and Judy , as suggested by Cornford in The Origin of Attic Comedy . |
| 17 | In The Origin of Attic Comedy , page 124 is the beginning of the section entitled ‘ The Second Part of the Parabasis ’ . |
| 18 | In 1926 , for instance , he returned to Westermarck ( whom he had read eleven years before ) attacking his ideas that the origin and development of the ideas of good and evil were caused merely by economic , genetic , and hygienic factors . |
| 19 | What I call the ‘ auditory imagination ’ is the feeling for syllable and rhythm , penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling , invigorating every word ; sinking to the most primitive and forgotten , returning to the origin and bringing something back , seeking the beginning and the end . |
| 20 | To repeat , the association between homosexuality and the sexual lite of a woman is not necessarily insulting to either ; it is only that Mailer 's denigrating version of it forewarns of the crassness of the version of sexual difference which constitutes both the origin and horizon of his vision , and once again indicates an intense apprehensiveness in the face of imagined male passivity , and the way it is oft en conceived in terms of a denigrated and denigrating femininity at once utterly alien to yet strangely inherent within the male . |
| 21 | Such was the origin of the General Theory . |
| 22 | This work , however , only really came to fruition in Engels 's famous book The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , a book which although written after Marx 's death was extensively based on his notes . |
| 23 | From 1860 on , however , a dramatic increase in the number of such works occurred ; a veritable explosion of major publications took place which owed a great deal to the excitement aroused by The Origin of Species . |
| 24 | This was very much the implication which was drawn from Darwin 's work by those anthropologists who published immediately after The Origin of Species , so that they enthusiastically talked of natural selection and the survival of the fittest in their outlines of human history . |
| 25 | This idea was accepted with varying degrees of caution by many nineteenth-century anthropologists and ultimately was wholly endorsed by Engels , who , in the preface to the fourth edition of The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , gave warm praise to Bachofen . |
| 26 | The reason Morgan sees for the passage of society from one stage to another — and this is what is most stressed by Engels in his restatement of Morgan 's theory in The Origin — is a social break due too the fact that the various subsystems stop working in gear , and come into conflict with each other . |
| 27 | He , and others like him , were answered by Rousseau , who argues that the social contract which established private property was really the origin of exploitation and had to be replaced by a new social contract . |
| 28 | This early stage in the history of mankind appears in The Origin as characterized mainly by what it does not have . |
| 29 | This was because by then he had written The Origin where he had argued that primitive society was classless , on the evidence he had obtained from Morgan . |
| 30 | He states this quite explicitly in several of his works and in particular in The Origin … |