Example sentences of "[adv] in terms of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But more recently banks have been providing other forms of merger funding-'mezzanine debt' , which does not rate as highly in terms of claims against the company 's assets , but provides additional financial resources . |
| 2 | This is not the place to enter into a detailed discussion of different electoral systems and their advantages and disadvantages ; but it should be noted that those who oppose the general principle of proportional representation do not usually do so in terms of arguments about democracy and representation , but more often stress the need for strong and stable government . |
| 3 | There was a direct connection with the shipyards , not only in terms of orders by British owners ( who now build abroad to a far greater extent than any other non-flag of convenience maritime nation ) , but through the training of engineering officers who traditionally served their time as fitters in the yards or engine works before going to sea . |
| 4 | We had Chernobyl , we had a series of hijackings , we had outrages at Athens Airport , we had the U S raid on Libya by bombers based in Britain erm and everybody then erm turned the corners of their mouths down and forecast the end of tourism , that doom is nigh , and what actually happened was that erm by the end of nineteen eighty six we were four point three per cent down in terms of numbers on a record nineteen eighty five . |
| 5 | The story , in particular of the last ten years or so , could indeed be written entirely in terms of moves towards political union being used as a distraction to divert attention away from the continuing abuse of the commitment to free trade . |
| 6 | That means the productivity has gone up because , that is if you measure erm productivity entirely in terms of numbers of students taught . |
| 7 | It may be defined objectively in terms of numbers of contacts between individuals . |
| 8 | The world is ultimately to be understood in terms of swirlings or ‘ vortices ’ , in a matter which is identical with extension or space , not in terms of collisions of solid , impenetrable atoms moving in an otherwise empty space . |
| 9 | However , the more usual way to represent it is not in terms of deviations of the actual unemployment rate from its natural rate but in terms of deviations of the logarithm of output , y , from its natural value , y * ; . |
| 10 | Setting aside mathematics for the moment , the different levels can be seen in terms of scale ( which Hodgson 1985 neatly gives in centimetres ) , in terms of envelopes ( Needham 1969 ) or perhaps best in terms of levels of organization ( since physicists argue that they relate to ‘ all levels of scale ’ ; Institute of Physics 1988 , p. 2 ) . |
| 11 | Rationality can very properly be specified not in terms exclusively of methods supposed to lead to truth but more generally in terms of methods for reaching a consistent and comprehensive stance towards the world as it really is , something perfectly possible in ethical thought as the attitudinist describes it . |
| 12 | The outcome has been a major advance in thinking about the curriculum in holistic terms , in which curriculum planning is done not just in terms of subjects and their traditional labels , but also in terms of areas of experience , skills and processes as well as knowledge , and personal and affective aspects as well as the cognitive . |
| 13 | Phillips and Williams ( 1982d ) suggest a ‘ positive ’ approach to transfer management in the rural sector in which housing visitors ‘ scout ’ tenants and try to suggest ways in which a small ( and diminishing ) stock can be better used both in terms of persons per dwelling and of the tenants ' patterns of spatial behaviour . |
| 14 | The arts , as noted above , can be viewed both in terms of properties of the art-objects and in relation to the stance of being . |
| 15 | The most significant welfare change , both in terms of numbers of people affected and the sum saved in public expenditure , has been the method by which this Government has calculated increases in social security . |
| 16 | ‘ The Company has continued its record of impressive growth both in terms of assets under management and new business secured , ’ said Norman Lessels in his Chairman 's Statement . |
| 17 | Historically , government policy has favoured urban dwellers , both in terms of subsidies on food and other commodities , and the availability of social services . |
| 18 | The impoverished areas that black Britons settle in means that young people are far more at risk both in terms of levels of offending , and in terms of police surveillance . |
| 19 | LIFESPAN is particularly useful for controlling the design stage since the actions emanating from design reviews can be expressed simply and clearly in terms of modifications to specified modules and packages . |
| 20 | Dolphins are probably as diverse now in terms of numbers of species , as at any time for which we have a good fossil record . |
| 21 | The designer is free , at this stage , to specify this simply in terms of relationships between the global domains , such as just " touching " . |
| 22 | An education may therefore be thought of as ‘ general ’ either in terms of types of knowledge or the culture to which it belongs . |