Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [noun pl] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raised values of sICAM-1 have been reported in samples of patients with melanoma , rheumatoid arthritis , systemic lupus erythematosus , metastatic cancer , and acute urolithiasis . |
| 2 | The stress on mineral extraction has left the settlers ( now almost 10 million as was estimated early in 1982 ) in effect abandoned , and their fate is reported in terms of disputes over land , the sowing of their land with weed seeds from the air and even the poisoning of their drinking water . |
| 3 | Such selling points must , however , be presented in terms of benefits to the customer . |
| 4 | Evidence to support ( or refute ) variations in health status within and between populations is typically presented in terms of differences in death rates . |
| 5 | The MacMillan Clubs were groups of teen-age students organized in scores of schools throughout the province by the energy and enthusiasm of Marjorie Agnew , a teacher and music-lover herself . |
| 6 | The literature of Scottish geology , however , whilst it has grown in terms of numbers of papers , has not resulted in any increase in the numbers of journals devoted to it ( except for the Scottish Journal of Geology ) , but has grown by taking up more space in existing journals , and by expanding into areas covered by new , multidisciplinary journals , such as Precambrian Research , Chemical Geology , Tectonophysics , and similar publications . |
| 7 | The literature of Scottish geology , however , whilst it has grown in terms of numbers of papers , has not resulted in any increase in the numbers of journals devoted to it ( except for the Scottish Journal of Geology ) , but has grown by taking up more space in existing journals , and by expanding into areas covered by new , multidisciplinary journals , such as Precambrian Research , Chemical Geology , Tectonophysics , and similar publications . |
| 8 | The same kinds of effect can be seen in studies of families with disabled young adults ( Hirst , 1984 ) and a disabled spouse ( Martin and White , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | Hence , if evidence is found to support the existence of a North-South divide , this must be seen in terms of measures of ‘ averages ’ for particular regions . |
| 10 | Abuse and neglect are also commonly seen in children of mothers with learning disabilities and are particularly common if the fathers also suffer from learning disabilities or if the children themselves are of normal IQ . |
| 11 | Another drawback is that a rules-based policy , especially where this is drafted in terms of prohibitions with penalties for non-compliance , may be less than appropriate for dealing with problems of uncompetitive market structures . |
| 12 | With the advent of information theory ( Attneave , 1959 ; Edwards , 1964 ) other interesting issues arose such as whether the performance of the store could better be measured in terms of bits of information or chunks of material ( the bits-versus-chunks controversy ( Miller , 1956 ) ) and the possibility that memory processes might distinguish between content and order . |
| 13 | The big differences are to be measured in terms of rates of growth of output and of levels of output per head . |
| 14 | The hiatus between North and South is most directly shown in terms of trends in employment over the first half of the 1980s . |
| 15 | Throughout South Somerset is the warm honey colour of the Hamstone used in generations of buildings in picturesque towns and villages as well as the grand and stately homes of the aristocracy . |
| 16 | These records are being used in studies of differentials in mortality , cancer incidence and survival , migration , bereavement and social mobility . |
| 17 | The Study shows the practice management methods which are currently used in firms of solicitors with up to ten partners . |
| 18 | It thus differs from business education whose concern is more broadly based in terms of areas of knowledge and the techniques relevant to business operations , though , of course , there is a good deal of overlap between the two subject areas . |
| 19 | In organisational theory Pfeffer ( 1981 ) argues that power is a relational concept that can only be understood in terms of interactions between individuals and groups . |
| 20 | But some have not , and it is significant that these are defended in terms of types of production which are important ‘ in and for themselves ’ . |
| 21 | In all four novels the link between technology and narrative technique is characterized in terms of innovations in both areas which challenge the commonsensical conception of what is possible . |
| 22 | Aesthetic terms " used in the discussion of style ( urbane , curt , exuberant , florid , lucid , plain , vigorous , etc ) are not directly referable to any observable linguistic features of texts , and one of the long-term aims of stylistics must be to see how far such descriptions can be justified in terms of descriptions of a more linguistic kind . |
| 23 | The optimality account of ageing has come to be known as the ‘ pleiotropy theory of senescence ’ , because it is often developed in terms of genes with effects on more than one aspect of the phenotype , in this case on survival and fertility at different ages . |
| 24 | It is doubtless true that at bottom the behaviour of a motor car is to be explained in terms of interactions between fundamental particles . |
| 25 | The behaviour of a computer can be explained in terms of interactions between semiconductor electronic gates , and the behaviour of these , in turn , is explained by physicists at yet lower levels . |
| 26 | We concluded that the behaviour of a complicated thing should be explained in terms of interactions between its component parts , considered as successive layers of an orderly hierarchy . |
| 27 | If Hume 's argument proves anything , it is just this : that the assumption of identity can not be explained in terms of the conditions under which the empirical things of the common sense world are re-identified ; in particular , it can not be explained in terms of similarities between perceptions and ideas . |
| 28 | Such congregations seem more easily explained in terms of opportunities for relating and for sexual behaviour . |
| 29 | The language of urban people , to the extent that it is ‘ modified ’ , is modified vernacular : it can not be adequately explained in terms of modifications to the ‘ standard ’ ( in which many speakers show no interest at all ) . |
| 30 | Iran has consistently produced more than its quota , securing exports by discounting below the OPEC release price and though it has benefited in terms of revenues in the short term , has certainly been partly instrumental in weakening the cartel . |