Example sentences of "such terms " in BNC.

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1 Wölflinn used such terms to distinguish epochs ; they are only partly useful as interpretation , since Wölflinn tended to be more interested in art as an independent phenomenon than as having meaning intended by the artist .
2 The fact is that the project itself will call into question the notion of success and failure , my theme in the big glass , he wrote , is , after all , the calling into question of such terms as success and failure , the calling into question of such notions as project and even work .
3 The audience recognise physical movement for itself alone whereas those who theorise and attempt to define what they mean by such terms as post or neo-modern , contemporary , avant-garde , etc. base their works on intellectual concepts which need to be discussed in words .
4 Not everyone wants to enter the cave on such terms .
5 A real deformation of values is suggested by the common use of such terms as ‘ productive scholars ' ’ and ‘ ‘ scholarly output' ’ . '
6 Imaged in such terms , the sodomite indeed became the supreme instance of the demonized other .
7 But , as his diaries indicate , Orton 's indignation was too anarchic to be recuperated in such terms .
8 The theory of natural selection meant that natural species could be explained in terms of the conditions necessary for their survival , and it seemed a small further step to explaining human social systems in such terms ; that is , in terms of the ways by which human beings gained their livelihood and reproduced .
9 The first task consisted of formulating a view of society which was based on principles different from the traditional ones , according to which societies could be typified in terms of their administrative organization by using such terms as ‘ democracy ’ or ‘ monarchy ’ .
10 ‘ No style of building , ’ wrote Mr Ould , Hill Bark 's architect , of half-timbering , ‘ will harmonize so quickly and completely with its surroundings … and none continues to live on such terms of good fellowship with other materials , whether rosy brickwork , grey lichen covered masonry , or pearly flag-slates . ’
11 But even explanations in such terms , however certain they may be , are still ‘ conjecture ’ .
12 If the objects of the society are not charitable , the rule against perpetuities ( see p. 42 ) , from which charities , provided that they are to begin within the perpetuity period , are exempt , will make void any gift of property by way of permanent endowment , whether made by will or otherwise ; but there is nothing to prevent gifts or bequests from being made to a non-charitable society in such terms that it can , at any time , dispose of the capital at its pleasure .
13 There is no superior limit ; a term of 1,000 or 10,000 years ( such terms actually occur ) is still a leasehold .
14 Other such terms , for example free , as in ‘ then we were free ’ , certainly had reference to the past , but carried direct contemporary reference : a man would say of another , ‘ he is a free man ’ , and mean that he took no orders from a superior ; and a man ( asked about his own occupation ) might say with some pride that he was a ‘ free Zuwayi ’ ( zuwayi hurr ) , and imply his condition was closer to the old days than that of most of those he saw around him .
15 In such terms , this is not a fateful election .
16 First , policies in some social services departments bear the hallmarks of residualism and tertiary level work , though such terms are not used ( McCarthy , 1989 ) .
17 The Adoption Act of 1958 ( s. 7(3) ) did provide that ‘ The Court in an adoption order may impose such terms and conditions as the Court may think fit ’ .
18 Subsequently the Adoption Act of 1975 ( s. 8(7) , later section 12(6) of the Adoption Act 1976 ) made it more explicit that ‘ in making an adoption order a Court may impose such terms and conditions as it thinks fit ’ , but it was interpreted that any ‘ condition imposed should not impinge on the autonomy of adoptive parents ’ .
19 Throughout it is held that professionals and managers are people and it is people who should be brought to mind whenever such terms as professionalism and professionality or management and managerialism are encountered .
20 But he or she will then have to demonstrate that it is possible to make sense when using such terms .
21 It appears that Landry is intent on manipulating such terms , in order to perform an ideological deconstruction .
22 Such terms as ‘ idiot ’ and ‘ imbecile ’ have even attained a certain respectability , to be joined no doubt in time , by such terms as ‘ moron ’ and ‘ cretin ’ .
23 Such terms as ‘ idiot ’ and ‘ imbecile ’ have even attained a certain respectability , to be joined no doubt in time , by such terms as ‘ moron ’ and ‘ cretin ’ .
24 Children who are described as mildly mentally handicapped are often upset to hear themselves described as such , and such terms as ‘ children with learning difficulties ’ are now in vogue .
25 We are used to thinking in such terms concerning tourists and temporary residents .
26 Writers often mistakenly use such terms as ‘ women spinning with their distaff . ’
27 Tate says , on p.309 , ‘ The orthography of 17th and 18th century parish officers is often eccentric in the extreme and the inquirer must be prepared to translate [ such terms ] as arter david into ‘ affidavit ’ [ and ] carvaers into ‘ surveyors ’ …
28 The court may include such terms in a nuisance order as it considers necessary to abate the odour nuisance .
29 In the context of course evaluation the research work of the Travelling Workshops Experiment and the James project attempted to make practising librarians familiar with such terms as formative evaluation , summative evaluation and illuminative evaluation .
30 Apparently from the notes , a certain Fruchtbaum in the Times Literary Supplement has described Charles on setting out on the Beagle voyage in such terms , which is certainly an exaggeration , but I do not know anyone else who has ever subscribed to that opinion .
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