Example sentences of "relation of [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the principles which we have expounded in 1.3 are placed alongside Morris 's definition of pragmatics as ‘ the relations of signs to interpreters ’ ( 1938 : 6 ) , the connection becomes quite clear . |
| 2 | We shall take a part of his analysis of the language of William Golding 's novel The Inheritors to illustrate the relation of pluralism to dualism and monism . |
| 3 | She 'd particularly enjoyed a bout between Iris Murdoch and Professor Anscombe , she recalled , on the relation of philosophy to religion . |
| 4 | However for the periods they are concerned with , this first process is not all ; as the relation of man to nature becomes more complex through more advanced technology , they see another process coming into play . |
| 5 | Understandings of human reproduction have varied ( and one can not here consider all such understandings and their consequences for what the relation of man to woman was held to be ) . |
| 6 | The Department of Theology and Religious Studies offers two aspects of theology : doctrine as it has emerged in Christian tradition , and the relation of theology to influences from philosophy , other contemporary studies , and atheistic alternatives . |
| 7 | Instead of searching for the musical expression of class standpoints one will do better so to conceive the relation of music to classes that any music will present the picture of antagonistic society as a whole ( Adorno 1976 : 68 , 69 , emphasis added ) . |
| 8 | Though Between and Thru exhibit striking parallels with the emergent thinking in the late 1960s and early 1970s about the relation of women to language , it was not until nearly fifteen years later that she began to make use of gender-specific arguments in her critical writings . |
| 9 | Suppose it is known that a certain element A stands in a relation R to a second element B. If R is an asymmetric relation , then it necessarily follows that B does not stand in the relation R to A ( the relation of B to A in that case is the converse of R ) . |
| 10 | Another reason why the relation of demes to city is now seen differently , and why demes now seem more important , is simply that more archaeological work has been done on deme sites . |
| 11 | Figure 4.2 : Relation of Unionisation to Level of Bargaining |
| 12 | Without so much as one cartoon , Valentine offers a brisk introduction to such perennials as the role of introspection , free will , the relation of psychology to physiology and some newer ‘ big questions ’ , such as the role of humanistic psychology and computers in studying behaviour . |
| 13 | It is this portability aspect of programs , and the conventional hardware — software distinction that goes with it , that has most interested those in AI who have concerned themselves with the relation of brains to minds : there has been an easy temptation to exploit the hardware — software distinction as a model of the brain — mind distinction . |
| 14 | I want to take seriously the suggestion that the sort of inquiry that Quine has in mind could be the heir to traditional epistemology — although I shall not restrict the concerns of the latter to studying the relation of evidence to theory . |
| 15 | Through his ‘ extreme subjectivism ’ , Merleau-ponty argued , Sartre avoided the traditional claims of Marxism to be the realization of history — and thus also the problem of the relation of Marxism to Stalinism . |
| 16 | Foucault 's account is particularly useful insofar as it gives a good indication of the characteristic French , as opposed to German , emphasis on the relation of Marxism to enlightenment rationality and the questioning of enlightenment claims to the universality of its values . |
| 17 | It can be seen that B and C both stand in the relation of dominance to E , but neither stands in that relation to the other ; hence , the structure is not a hierarchy , according to our definition . |
| 18 | More remarkably , the Mohists appear to have been near to formulating the concept of functional dependence in the relation of motion to time , an idea that was not fully developed until the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century in Europe . |
| 19 | The only real answer she provides is the joke-capping session itself , which then forms the topic of the rest of the chapter ; but more could be said , for example , on the functions of joke-telling ( for breaking down taboos , reassuring , releasing tension , passing the time , indirect criticising , etc ) ; and on the relation of joke-telling to questions of " power " and " solidarity " . |
| 20 | The relation of patron to artist is examined , as are the stylistic influences that shaped Mughal art : the Persian heritage , the discovery of western art , the elegance and aestheticism of the Mughal court , the painters of ascetics and the India of the mystics , the development of realistic portraiture during the seventeenth century and the discovery of chiaroscuro . |
| 21 | Take the ever-puzzling problem of the relation of biology to physics . |
| 22 | J. H. Whitehouse , the Liberal MP , proclaimed that ‘ in view of the relation of unemployment to adolescent and child labour ’ , an improved system of education was ‘ a matter of urgent necessity ’ . |
| 23 | Eliot produced a single page of notes from his pocket which he placed before him on the small table and brooded over for a while ; but when he started , he managed to pack in , during 45 minutes or so , a great deal of sound sense on the subject of drama and especially on the relation of drama to religion . |
| 24 | From the point of view of the relation of consciousness to society this contradiction is expressed as the irreconcilable antagonism between ideology and economic base . |
| 25 | By introduction of glass , he wrote , relation of background to foreground radically altered . |
| 26 | But the relation of fertility to women 's employment and income is quite different . |
| 27 | All this has upset the applecart of the relation of fertility to prosperity . |
| 28 | Because women have not had the same historical relation of identity to origin , institution , production , that men have had , women have not , I think , ( collectively ) felt burdened by too much Self , Ego , Cogito , etc . |
| 29 | This is not to say it rules out action , but it fails to grasp the relation of action to capitalism . |
| 30 | Likewise , they are prepared to make allowance for the fact that certain scientific facts about the world were not known , or for example that the biological relation of woman to man was misunderstood . |