Example sentences of "terms of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not explain the motivations of Romeo in terms of today 's values , but we can bring a contemporary handling to the words that will make the imagery blaze afresh each time it is spoken . |
| 2 | When Shaw died in 1950 he was a very rich man — the net value of his estate was eventually assessed at around £6,250,000 in terms of today 's money ; and the closest Holroyd comes to a sustained narrative is in tracing the fate of his various bequests . |
| 3 | It 's quite obvious as regards the longer-term that we must think in terms of today 's starting point , we ca n't just introduce the market and cease all state regulation . |
| 4 | Many materials have been produced for different languages by individual teachers : these have been shown to succeed in the very specific circumstances facing a particular teacher/author in his or her classroom , but it has not so far proved possible to generalise from the successes in terms of easily accessible materials usable by different teachers under differing circumstances . |
| 5 | He develops a theory which accounts for changing attitudes in terms of largely unexplained swings between ‘ matrist ’ and ‘ patrist ’ cultures , leaving us with a grandiloquent but unsubstantiated cyclical theory of social change . |
| 6 | However , it was apparent that the staff needed much more guidance from advisers in terms of practically implementing such recommendations . |
| 7 | Although US officials refuse to be pinned down on how long occupying troops will be needed in Panama , they talk in terms of sooner rather than later . |
| 8 | If we assume that these vehicles have an operational life of five years , and that 10 per cent is an agreed discount rate , then this scheme should produce benefits in net present value terms of approximately £2.8 million . |
| 9 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 10 | The former concept had a crucial historical advantage at the birth of mechanics ; Western thinkers approaching things as materials which stay put until the craftsman or builder reaches for them , would not have started trying to measure how the inert is moved by external forces if they had been thinking in terms of inherently active ch'i . |
| 11 | Immoral or antisocial conduct demands an explanation in terms of inherently unobservable causes , be they ‘ motives ’ , ‘ intentions ’ , ‘ desires ’ , ‘ proclivities ’ , ‘ spirit attack ’ , ‘ witchcraft ’ , ‘ disorders of the humoural system ’ , and so on . |
| 12 | It requires either a full repeat survey to identify the life style-groups again if any follow-up research is to be done , or else the creation of a sort of shorthand classification for research and analysis ; it seems that different products tend to be best looked at in terms of rather different life style groupings , so that , ideally , each requires its own major survey — which rather loses the point of the exercise — and researchers have had some difficulty in replicating the results . |
| 13 | Well , I 've trailed my coat , I 've said a whole lot of things in hopefully to intrigue you , to start you off , merely in terms of rather positive public relations , the media are good and they 're lovely and you ought to encourage them , and really , my message in the very first part is what I started off with . |
| 14 | Together they illustrate that , even if it is true that Conservatism harbours ‘ a distrust of the purely intellectual approach in politics ’ , this in itself is an ideological position with important implications in terms of both the theory and practice of Conservatism , and Honderich concludes that ‘ the commodious proposition that Conservatives only have and only favour factual beliefs which have passed the test of time , are empirical and so on , and hence are untheoretical in various senses … needs to be delivered , if necessary by private contractors , to the rubbish heap of history ’ . |
| 15 | The really significant change in divorce , in terms of both law and behaviour , has taken place in the twentieth century ; and as Stone devotes only forty of his 422 pages to a consideration of the period after 1857 , he essentially precludes an answer to the question he poses , namely , why divorce has become as common as taxes and death . |
| 16 | Is their liberty not being restricted in terms of both intention and effect ? |
| 17 | Peter had also clearly given considerable thought to what a new series might contain , in terms of both topic and author . |
| 18 | The process whereby rivers have been straightened and lowered to allow all riverside land to be more intensively cropped for grass and grain has often been expensive in terms of both wasted investment and loss of landscape . |
| 19 | In terms of both history and function , the chief feature of parliamentary privilege is freedom of speech . |
| 20 | A well set out manual with step-by-step diagrams , even cartoon pictures , would make all the difference , because the Multiverb has so much to offer the guitarist in terms of both quantity and quality . |
| 21 | Although the Saturn-Pluto connection could make work hard and aspects of job hunting depressing , Jupiter is well placed to bring results in terms of both money and reputation . |
| 22 | Wishing to be faithful to the whole biblical tradition ( unlike many moderns ) , the church fathers insisted that Satan was a rebel but that he was also somehow connected to God 's purposes and plans for the world in terms of both judgment and deliverance . |
| 23 | They colour everyday life , in terms of both verbal and practical consciousness . |
| 24 | The test sets out to examine the child 's command of a range of syntactic forms in terms of both comprehension and production . |
| 25 | DesignaKnit will warn you of this and will also advise you of the number of stitches and rows needed for the best result , in terms of both detail and proportion . |
| 26 | Where playing standards are concerned the years of isolation definitely seems to have blunted South Africa 's sense of ‘ street wisdom ’ in terms of both tactics and selection — and a dismal Currie Cup final in the wake of the tours , in which Natal beat Transvaal 14–13 , indicates that the learning curve may take time . |
| 27 | The two London works of art sales produced healthy totals in terms of both value and number of lots sold : Christie 's sold £564,800 with 66% sold by lot and 86.6% by value ; Sotheby 's , with the much larger sale , £1.83 million with 61% sold by lot and 84.7% by value . |
| 28 | This will take the form of a small number of very large global players and a large number of very small niche operators — niche in terms of both market and geographical coverage . |
| 29 | In general , he works on the principle of minimal effort to achieve the required objectives in terms of both speed and quality . |
| 30 | The issue itself must be specified as precisely as possible usually in terms of both what we want to know and why we want to know . |