Example sentences of "passes for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Baffled by education without assignment or examination , without the learned doing the talking and the unlearned the listening , some critics have described Highlander 's residential workshops as anti-intellectual gatherings where the exchange of anecdote passes for education . |
| 2 | Similarly , the 1989 plans to loosen barristers ' stranglehold on appearance in court ran into such heavy opposition even from radicals — or what passes for radicalism in such a deeply orthodox business — that the plans of an elected government were tempered by vested interest . |
| 3 | Spring had a spring in her lithesome step ; the birds were trilling in what , over Birmingham , passes for sky ; and the wicket was , according to Wisden , in decent condition . |
| 4 | A sign told visiting gentlemen to remove their hats ; it was the kind of sign you 'd see in the Duomo in Florence ; in some parts of America , war still demands what passes for reverence . |
| 5 | The overwhelming verdict has been that what ‘ passes for knowledge ’ in a particular field is in fact ‘ partial and patriarchal ’ . |
| 6 | That 's because it 's a breath of fresh air compared to some of the muck that passes for music in the popular music charts . |
| 7 | Without genuine understanding , what passes for faith can be a counterfeit confidence of purely human origins ( such as the power of positive thinking ) . |
| 8 | Much of what passes for creativity is flashy or fashionable , or relies on advertising industry in-jokes . |
| 9 | When the days grew longer in what passes for spring on that windy plateau , we used to go into Lincoln on our days off and have lunch in the Naafi Club . |
| 10 | Witness in the New Testament is neither the silent churchgoing that passes for witness among many Christians , nor the sickening self-advertisement that often results when a believer ‘ gives his testimony ’ ; but simple factual reference to the historical Jesus , his death and resurrection , his gift of the Spirit , and his present availability and power . |
| 11 | ‘ In the present state of what passes for civilization , our efforts have to be directed solely towards relieving the plight of children living in poverty . |
| 12 | That which passes for beer in these parts . ’ |
| 13 | I was just telling our Daniel , I was right put off by what passes for tea on t'railways these days : I could n't stomach no more . |
| 14 | Those who have met with Cumberland jokes will realize that they are nearly always directly personal and intended to deflate pretension : the victims may well feel that this is not what passes for humour in ‘ polite society ’ . |
| 15 | Also , as an immigrant to Canada , I can affirm it 's more pleasant living where problems are met with cheerful optimism instead of the sullen whining which passes for debate in Britain . |
| 16 | And this album continues that tradition , presenting a boggling variety of melody and pace , which , only once , on ‘ You Surround Me ’ , resorts to the awful ‘ Oxygene'-style bubbling rumble which passes for rhythm in the world where the programmer is king . |
| 17 | This article , then , is motivated by a dissatisfaction or a discomfort with most of what passes for television theory : the doubts about the existence of anything which can usefully be called television theory are real . |
| 18 | I will remove my veils one by one , as I demolish , in turn , the proponents of these cardinal precepts of what today passes for Socialism in the People 's Party . ’ |