Example sentences of "mind 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seeing of beauty comes from the mind 's creativity . |
| 2 | It is as if the idea of the moment can be compressed like those flowers that we as children used to press between the pages of a book ; that they can be set like a jewel in the mind or as a picture in the mind 's gallery . |
| 3 | Let us close our eyes with the eyelids that are the drop curtains of the mind 's theatre , and let the great show commence . |
| 4 | The single image is like a photograph but a schema is a film that blazes in the mind 's theatre . |
| 5 | Each schema is like a web placed in the mind 's heavens where its images glitter like the stars . |
| 6 | It appears to us to be wide enough to cover the mind 's activities in all its aspects , not only the perception of physical acts and matters and the ability to form a rational judgment whether an act is right or wrong , but also the ability to exercise will-power to control physical acts in accordance with that rational judgment . |
| 7 | Whereas Aristotle did not enquire into the mental process by which we perceive time , because he believed that our minds must necessarily conform to the time of the physical universe , St Augustine took the mind 's activity as the basis of temporal measurement . |
| 8 | When we begin to understand the nature of the workings of our own minds , then we come to understand the manner of the mind 's activity in all other creatures and , indeed , throughout creation , as the primary pattern-maker , the source of all the blueprints , the weaver of the web of energy relationships , the essential formative principle running across the pure face of consciousness . |
| 9 | The doctrine of the Trinity thus becomes the universal dialectical process , while the dogmas of creation and incarnation speak of Mind 's projection of itself as Nature , and witness to the ultimate identity of Infinite and finite Mind . |
| 10 | It is his own mind 's way of coping with the grief , and he knows it . |
| 11 | The enemy is the mind 's tendency to systematize , sew up experience , place a distance between itself and immediacy . |
| 12 | The mind 's gardens are composed of images that move us emotionally . |
| 13 | It can be the mind 's abstraction for an edge , a crack , a fissure or a chain of dimensionless points , linking their extremities . |
| 14 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 15 | He stored it up — the mind 's ability to store is inexhaustible — and wrote it down when he was finally released . |
| 16 | The philosophical splitting-off of mind from brain arises mistakenly from the necessity of retrospective insight in the affirmation of the mind 's existence . |
| 17 | Tearing the spirits from my mind 's edge and from under … . |
| 18 | The difference between established senses and potential senses is not merely one of frequency of use , although this is undoubtedly an important component of the difference : established senses are presumably represented differently in the mind 's lexicon . |
| 19 | J.L. Lowes in his book The Road to Xanadu has given an account of how the mind 's vats work . |
| 20 | This process is like the creative process of mind where ideas and images stored in the mind 's vats join together and change through time and become the matter of poetry . |
| 21 | This vision lies behind nominalism , which claims that it is the mind 's capacity for creating general words that creates the illusion of generality in the world itself . |
| 22 | Metaphor in Out is used in two distinct ways : on the one hand , the medical theory ‘ diagnosis prognosticates aetiology ’ is extended coercively to other domains of thought ; on the other hand , the mind 's capacity for variation and mutation leads the main character to produce creative metaphors which distort , subvert , and ‘ mobilize ’ the language of authority . |
| 23 | Already in Out the narrator was obsessed with the mind 's capacity for erasing one version of a story and substituting another : ‘ We can make our errors in a thought and reject them in another thought , leaving no trace of error in us ’ ( 51/53 ) . |
| 24 | They call these intelligence , even though they only represent a small part of the mind 's capacity . |
| 25 | Let us make schemata of coloured mandalas and hang them on the mind 's screens as objects of meditation . |
| 26 | Here at the bottom of the sky , I went with him in imagination by the rocks of the mind 's shore and I saw that the sky was thin and could not hold and my mind was set free . |
| 27 | Haavikko 's world seems to be coldly fragile , eerie and wisplike ; there is the sound of other worlds as we stand on the mind 's shore and feel the spume on the windows of the soul . |
| 28 | You know the way it is — someone dies whose example was meaningful to you , who was significant in your mind 's evolution , though you may have had only the most fleeting personal acquaintance with them . |
| 29 | The cultivation of the mind entails giving it freedom to soar like a bird into the mind 's sky . |
| 30 | But when I close my eyes , strain my stomach and clench my fist I can still feel the g build as the world smoothly revolves and I see that bright red tip tank carve its silent arc across the azure of my mind 's sky and remember . |