Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] in terms [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also intended to compare methods in terms of their outcomes . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , hermeneutics is not committed in advance either to understanding rules in terms of actions or to understanding actions in terms of rules . |
| 3 | In addition to the rhetoric of law and order , they want action in terms of policing which will enable people to leave their homes in the evening and not be curtailed by fear of violent crime . |
| 4 | This in turn is usually measured in a building surveying practice in terms of billable value of the hours for all fee earners . |
| 5 | The issue was sexual not physical abuse — a problem that had been gaining momentum in terms of recognition and response throughout the 1980s — and it also concerned not just one child tragedy but many . |
| 6 | This was the point of explaining cars in terms of carburettors rather than quarks . |
| 7 | Thus Moore 's position on the rightness and wrongness of actions is a form of rigoristic utilitarianism in which effects in terms of intrinsic good and bad replace effects in terms of pleasure and pain . |
| 8 | Classical structuralism had already ruled out the possibility of explaining texts in terms of an author or a reality external to them , but its use of the linguistic analogy and its construction of a poetics had the effect of turning language and poetics into origins for literature . |
| 9 | Evidently if the above theory is correct , there can be no question of explaining truth in terms of the " correspondence with ( external ) facts " The exponents of the theory , not unnaturally , tend to equate facts with true propositions . |
| 10 | Each of the ‘ sentences ’ in the network only has meaning in terms of its relations to other sentences , and each of these sentences only has meaning in relation to others , and so on . |
| 11 | It also has implications in terms of the number of jobs , in that you need far fewer people . |
| 12 | of handling them through the , through the assessment and statementing process and it has implications in terms of finding the resources to support those children once the statements of provision are , are drawn up . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , hermeneutics is not committed in advance either to understanding rules in terms of actions or to understanding actions in terms of rules . |
| 14 | The past approach — for instance , where they analysed statistics in terms of travel-to-work areas and lumped West Belfast and its massive levels of unemployment in with other areas and thereby diluted the whole thing down to 12 or 13% in the Belfast travel-to-work area which extended from Larne to Downpatrick — was n't helpful . |
| 15 | Originally , the behaviourists objected to explaining behaviour in terms of mentalist concepts , such as awareness or feeling , on the grounds that such ‘ explanations ’ explain nothing . |
| 16 | At the semantic level , as at other levels , a writer exercises choice in terms of " a grammar of possibilities " . |
| 17 | This problem was largely solved by explaining reinforcement in terms of drive reduction , since drives could be readily manipulated by depriving animals of food or water and then using these items as reinforcement . |
| 18 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |
| 19 | For example , the national surveys of income and expenditure include Black and other ethnic minority households , but typically do not describe respondents in terms of ethnic identity ( see Brown , 1984 , as an exception ) . |
| 20 | Far from being an anticipation of Darwin 's theory , Chambers ' whole approach ignored the possibility of explaining transmutation in terms of the natural laws observable in the everyday world of how organisms relate to their environment . |
| 21 | Considered from a materialist perspective it has at least three damaging limitations : first it tends to construe sexuality in terms of an original pre-social plenitude , an initially unstructured natural energy ; second ( and consequently ) sexuality is conceived in certain of Freud 's central texts as a drive with hydraulic characteristics ; third , a phenomenon like homophobia , when it is not being blatantly disregarded , is explained too much in terms of the subjective , psychic repressions of its agents . |
| 22 | Lastly , we can also consider services in terms of their continuity . |
| 23 | If a small group has shown its work , try to encourage discussion in terms of meaning , rather than by judging it . |
| 24 | This kind of academic-theoretical drift can yield benefits in terms of knowledge and academic status , but it can also produce a reaction which attacks the increasing irrelevance or distortion of such studies . |
| 25 | In this instance Schuman described Vietnam in terms of financial and military haemorrhage , a burden that France could not be expected to carry indefinitely and one which threatened her ability to meet European defence commitments . |
| 26 | In 1991 the Lancet carried a series of articles on medical anthropology arguing that ‘ medical anthropology has now emerged as a potential focus for those interested in explaining disease in terms of the patient 's cultural context . ’ |
| 27 | But it is possible for people growing up in a totally different culture to see kingship in terms of tyranny , in which case they would receive the statement that God is like a king as meaning that God is tyrannical , even some kind of dictator , so that religion resembles a prison rather than paradise . |
| 28 | Although they may explain homosexuality in terms of learning , they assume a common biological basis and process for this learning , and see the condition itself as homogeneous . |
| 29 | However , looking at the actual absentees to detect patterns in terms of year groups or days of the week , for example , is also vital in detecting condoned truancy . |
| 30 | It might be thought that it should be possible to characterise hyponymy in terms of contextual normality . |