Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] term [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had wanted two contrasting areas ( more than two would have been preferable of course in terms of the extent to which one could generalise from our findings but the projects would become expensive and it was acknowledged that we could not include more than two ) , and Ipswich and Newham were felt to fill this requirement . |
| 2 | Yet when it suits him , de Man reintroduces the subject/object distinction , as in this case where the reader is presented with a free choice between two approaches to reading , approaches which are then subject to validation in terms of the object . |
| 3 | This finding may be interpreted as supporting the view expressed above that the inner-city vernacular , although it shows more complex patterns , is more amenable to description in terms of linguistic rules than outer-city speech . |
| 4 | In regular manpower audits , Cadbury Schweppes pick out their most susceptible employees — usually around 50 or 60 in number — and watch them carefully , ensuring that they are happy at work in terms of the demands and responsibilities of their jobs , and how well they are paid . |
| 5 | Each contribution , from whatever source , is capable of assessment in terms of units of goodness , and when that goodness is accepted as such by a large majority , it can be enshrined in the Created God . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , the flow-chart-cum-module model is much more open to interpretation in terms of localization ( if only because both are normally explained and displayed spatially ) , and therefore any explication of consciousness in their terms will tend to be a localized model , or what I referred to as a pinball-machine view of consciousness , one that seems to me a priori implausible . |