| Insofar as each of these relata may contain a number of possible worlds, logicians and decision theorists commonly take combinative preferences to have states of affairs as their relata. |
| Various motifs are intertwined to make the combinative solution work. |
| For example, pharmaceutical research generates huge quantities of photographs during combinative and robotized tests on cell cultures. |
| Such combinative and open-ended actions constitute an initial fundamental experimental phase in which the notion of self-portrait refuses to be a simple figurative and finished representation of the artist. |
| The compositions of the engraved and painted elements are a combinative interpretation of the cross which returns regularly in the painted work. |
| The derivation of combinative preferences from exclusionary preferences can be produced with a representation function. |
