Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [noun pl] of [noun pl] between " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It is doubtless true that at bottom the behaviour of a motor car is to be explained in terms of interactions between fundamental particles .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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