Example sentences of "we associate with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Emperor has something of the technique of comic and fantastic exaggeration that we associate with Dickens , and something of the manner , too , of Dickens 's reader , Kafka : |
| 2 | Patience is not what we associate with Pound , and from time to time he seems to have kicked over the traces ( at least once to be ticked off for it by Dorothy ) : yet we see all over again that the young Pound was well content with Edwardian England , was hopeful of it and ready to abide by its rules in everything that mattered . |
| 3 | In order to become acquainted with our fears , we need to recognize some of the key outlooks and actions which we associate with fear . |
| 4 | An unworthy book in many ways , indeed in all perceivable ways , it had engaged one reader in that intimate way that we associate with capital L ‘ Literature ’ . |
| 5 | In the New Testament Satan is much more the Evil One that we associate with Christian theology . |
| 6 | Very soon the computer world which we associate with work , word processors and video games will start connecting us to our TV in a relationship we 've never had before . |
| 7 | The reason why company law should have been so concerned to legitimate the power of corporate managers is that this power potentially threatens the political-economic organization we associate with a liberal democracy . |
| 8 | Boston therefore suffers many of the ills which we associate with inner-city decline . |
| 9 | But these were hardly distinguishable from drainage channels , having none of the features that we associate with canals . |
| 10 | The familiar squeaks which we associate with mice and rats are the lowest sounds these rodents make . |
| 11 | What I can say in the former case , at best , is " This is how people tend to look when they feel joyful " or " This is the kind of physical expression ( or behaviour ) that we associate with the joyous state " . |
| 12 | Many of the characteristics of the postwar period which we associate with Fordism , for example , high levels of military spending or private consumption , could just as well be explained in terms of the political institutions which shaped the Fordist era . |
| 13 | Many of the flavours we associate with Easter are from spices . |
| 14 | The " we-group solidarity which we associate with the intimacy of kinship , in the sense just described , tends to ramify outwards through the whole social system . |
| 15 | A flat-calm water , clear sky and a bright quarter moon are not the sort of conditions we associate with good catches . |
| 16 | It nevertheless seems clear that the brand of Whiggery we associate with the Walpolean ascendancy of the 1720s and 1730s was very different from that which had been predominant for much of the later-Stuart period . |
| 17 | This is called " sensitive dependence on initial conditions " , a phenomenon which persists even when the strange invariant set becomes attracting ( see below ) and which gives the typical " chaotic " , " turbulent " or " pseudo-random " behaviour which we associate with a " strange attractor " . |
| 18 | Many have been filmed : Hitchcock 's The Birds , Nicholas Roeg 's Do n't Look Now , but it is her novel Rebecca we associate with du Maurier — that moody , mysterious tale of the second Mrs de Winter , of Manderley and Mrs Danvers . |
| 19 | I suggested that the insistent gaze , the awareness of detail , were of the kind we associate with love or hate , while the persistent emphasis on traps or limits that can never be crossed belonged rather with the very different forces of pity or fear . |