Preposition: of

• century: A materialist of the twelfth century could not believe it any more than a materialist of the twentieth century.

Converse of object

• become: The unions became increasingly sectarian, increasingly materialist, until they deserved as well as received their defeat at the hands of Margaret Thatcher.

• think: In both these respects, I think the materialists were in the right.

Adjective modifier

• eliminative: Here we see a tension that runs throughout the writings of many early eliminative materialists.

• cultural: Both New Historicists and Cultural Materialists are charged with failing to match the ambition of their theory with their critical practice.

• scientific: The physical fine tuning of the universe is also causing scientific materialists real headaches.

• historical: Too bad for a " historical materialist " like you.

• realistic: No one who disagrees with this claim is a serious and realistic materialist.

• reductive: At its most extreme consciousness is said, by reductive materialists like Francis Crick, to be nothing but physical brain changes.

Modifies a noun

• dialectic: The new International is guided by the scientific theory of materialist dialectics, the theory of knowledge of Marxism.

• conception: This was established under a materialist conception of history.

• standpoint: What or who is to count as ' consistent socialism ' , and what is this ' materialist standpoint ' ?

• philosophy: What I am saying is that your materialist philosophy leads to conclusions that you do not hold.

• explanation: In the twentieth century, materialist explanations of change came to the fore.

• theory: The materialist theory of history implies that there is no fixed human nature.