Example sentences of "term of [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decision : it would have been open to the sentencer to impose a term of detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , S.53(2) , but he had made no reference to the section and it was clear that the sentence was unlawful . |
| 2 | This has happened to some extent with dyke , a disparaging word for lesbians , and with spinster , less disparaging but still pretty negative , which is Mary Daly 's term of choice for women who refuse to accept patriarchal society , preferring to ‘ spin' their own reality . |
| 3 | ( 8 ) The term of office of members of a licensing board shall begin with the day of their election under subsections ( 6 ) and ( 7 ) above and shall end on the day of the next election of members of the licensing board , but any member of a board shall be eligible for re-election . |
| 4 | ‘ LE PREZIOSE ’ is a term of praise for Italians and means quite simply ‘ The Precious Ones ’ which perfectly describes the quality and ‘ specialness ’ of this new range of pasta . |
| 5 | The ‘ explosion ’ of place differentiation in Britain also provides the rationale for the more locally focused treatments in Part III , which are arranged in term of types of places rather than on the basis of the standard regional units used conventionally for more detailed accounts of the geography of Britain . |
| 6 | Even with a substantial sum , the money available can buy you very different amounts of contact with the public : in conventional media analysis terms of coverage of adults and opportunities to see ( OTS ) an ad , £300000 could buy you , nationally , in early 1992 , the ‘ campaigns ’ in the main media which are shown in Table 10.1 . |
| 7 | Instead of taking an all or nothing approach based on causation , look at the question in terms of measure of damages and award a percentage . |
| 8 | Erm asking for permission to put their names forward and from the , the few letters we had the , this was that we thought was the whitest knights in terms of Geography in terms of sex in terms of I would n't say intelligence , perhaps I should try to impress them ! |
| 9 | The terms of exchange between manufacturers and agricultural produce moved swiftly to the disadvantage of the towns ; a pair of boots which in 1913 had been worth 283lb. of rye flour was worth as little as 133lb. by May 1922 . |
| 10 | On Sept. 3 a court sentenced 26 Moslem militants to lengthy terms of imprisonment on charges of attempting to murder two former Interior Ministers and a journalist . |
| 11 | Ngawang Buchung was sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for activities in support of Tibetan independence , which included circulating Tibetan translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 12 | Subsequently it will be necessary to review the nature of the support regularly , since co-operation between professional and ancillaries in terms of provision of materials and the need for individual help in some curriculum areas will need to be continuous . |
| 13 | It is extremely positive it sta , it clears these points up and and answers most of these questions so I would urge Mr Chairman that to on sheer education , on terms of provision of services , I 'm not party to all of the politics , I agree with what you said , absolutely crazy . |
| 14 | We shall compare graphs of depth one with graphs described in terms of sets of phonemes . |
| 15 | In terms of developments in curricula and pedagogy , a number of trends with which the project is in sympathy may be identified . |
| 16 | But it is much more useful to explain it in terms of interactions between pistons , cylinders and sparking plugs . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We explain the behaviour of a component at any given level , in terms of interactions between sub-components whose own internal organization , for the moment , is taken for granted . |
| 19 | to examine the terms of reference of complaints committees and how and what judgements are made in specific instances . |
| 20 | Terms of reference for Investigations Service . |
| 21 | Phrases such as ‘ use low-cost methods wherever possible ’ pepper terms of reference for designs . |
| 22 | The skill model described above implies that , except in highly restricted artificial situations , his information processing must be described in terms of patterns of stimuli related to patterns of responses . |
| 23 | Yeah I was gon na move erm on a suggestion that we had not been convinced of the need for this consortium by er , so far and and that certainly we as an authority er , have remained opposed to it on the grounds that we 've stated the terms of accountability in terms of the er , sensitivity to local needs in terms of transport issues and in terms of the clear intention to restrict patient choice erm which I think is a key think which should be emphasised |
| 24 | In terms of size in humans , some differences between individuals will not be caused by differences in their genes at all , but by differences in how they grew up , how much they ate and so on ; other differences will be genetic . |
| 25 | ‘ Arm 's length inspection units have revealed significant implications in terms of capital for repairs and refurbishment to ensure that proper standards , including health and safety , are met . |
| 26 | What had appeared as almost revolutionary in terms of content in films made between 1928 and 1932 would now be controlled and integrated into a smoother package . |
| 27 | The optimality account of ageing has come to be known as the ‘ pleiotropy theory of senescence ’ , because it is often developed in terms of genes with effects on more than one aspect of the phenotype , in this case on survival and fertility at different ages . |
| 28 | Another drawback is that a rules-based policy , especially where this is drafted in terms of prohibitions with penalties for non-compliance , may be less than appropriate for dealing with problems of uncompetitive market structures . |
| 29 | Someone with this expectation may therefore compare jobs in terms of level of wages and job security , and not in terms of how intrinsically rewarding the job is . |
| 30 | The duty is phrased more positively in terms of support for families rather than diminishing the need to take children into care ; the duty is , though , owed to ‘ children in need ’ , defined in terms of disability , significant impairment of health or development , and failure to achieve or maintain a reasonable standard of health or development without the provision of services . |