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  • verb Present participle of conceive.

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  • I then thought that my father would be unjust if he ascribed my neglect to vice, or faultiness on my part; but I am now convinced that he was justified in conceiving that I should not be altogether free from blame.

    Chapter 4 2010

  • He would have collaborated with Home Front in conceiving and building the playground set.

    Further Attack the Block Updates - Cast, Crew, Monster FX, Set Pictures | /Film 2010

  • I then thought that my father would be unjust if he ascribed my neglect to vice, or faultiness on my part; but I am now convinced that he was justified in conceiving that I should not be altogether free from blame.

    Chapter 3 2010

  • It assists you in conceiving for baby it proves as a best supplement for that period.

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 65 2009

  • As much as the computers and conceptual design ideas played a major role in conceiving the project, it took a master stone mason to work very closely with Jeanne to install the pieces correctly and expertly for it to become a physical reality.

    Break::The::Box::Wrap-Up 2008

  • Any number of well known US (and other) schools specialise in conceiving and developing hardware and software solutions as part of their curricula.

    Stanford U joins Apple sales 2005

  • Until we move into the new building, we cannot physically merge the newsrooms, but we are looking at ways to promote much more side-by-side cooperation in conceiving and executing journalism.

    The NYT Merged Newsroom Letter Ben Barren 2005

  • It has as much delight in conceiving an Iago as an

    Subjecticity (On Kant and the Texture of Romanticism) 2005

  • He was far ahead of his time in conceiving of the ranch as self-sufficient and self-regenerating.

    Biography 2001

  • Indeed it was considerations such as these which have given me, I suppose, more difficulty in conceiving, let alone writing this lecture than any piece of comparable length since those distant days when I wrote set essays on set subjects at school.

    William Golding - Nobel Lecture 1983

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