Example sentences of "[prep] terms [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every emerging pattern was explicable in terms of principles of local association . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In a system that encodes information in terms of patterns of activity information processing could be going on without a net increase in metabolism . |
| 4 | It is between these two sectors that some of the sharpest demographic differentials are found , and I will argue that the unique nature of the British housing market tends to perpetuate and reinforce these differentials in terms of patterns of early marriage , high fertility and marital breakdown . |
| 5 | Molars from mustelid assemblages belong to category 5 in terms of degree of damage ( Fig. 3.21 A-C ) , but category 3 or 4 in terms of proportions of teeth digested ( only 29 per cent for all mustelids combined — see Table 3.12 ) . |
| 6 | Thing is a lexical item , it is a grammatical ‘ function ’ word , but they are hardly to be distinguished in terms of degree of generality . |
| 7 | Different questions may vary not only in terms of verbal or spatial content but also in terms of degree of interest , emotion or imagery aroused in a subject . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It thus differs from business education whose concern is more broadly based in terms of areas of knowledge and the techniques relevant to business operations , though , of course , there is a good deal of overlap between the two subject areas . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Generally speaking , rechunking is done for two main reasons : ( a ) the source text is divided into chunks ( whether sections , paragraphs , sentences , or clauses ) that are either too long or too short in terms of target-language average chunking of similar material ; or ( b ) the nature of the target audience is different in terms of level of specialization , age , etc . |
| 12 | OPCS used a scale of 1–10 to measure disability , where a score of 1 was the least severe and 10 the most severe , in terms of level of incapacity and suffering . |
| 13 | This three-dimensional model can also be used to analyse the undergraduate curriculum , and will provide the three broad frames of reference for the three chapters that follow , which examine first degree courses in terms of concepts of knowledge , the economy and society , and the development of student ability or potential . |
| 14 | The problem is to come up with an analysis and structure which is not only reasonably clear and self-consistent in terms of concepts of knowledge , but which maps on to and helps to explain the curricular structures that are already in place . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Against the background of this mass of expectations which derives from and constitutes our experience , it must become possible to identify the relevant properties of features of the context of situation in terms of norms of expectation within a particular genre . |
| 17 | 1990 was a year of substantial achievement for the Association in terms of development of welfare facilities and in fund-raising . |
| 18 | If the shot is to be sent out in black and white the colour must be ignored and the shot viewed in terms of tones of grey . |
| 19 | The former is made up of the utilities of the various classes or groups in society , while the latter is the utility of the community as such , discussed by Pareto in terms of maximisation of national military and political power . |
| 20 | improve plant flexibility in terms of range of throughputs or types of material that can be handled ; |
| 21 | Well there are problems in the sense that we 've got to do it , in terms of management of the County Council , the control of the capital programme , no I do n't think so , because if , if there was no control on it , you would n't now be picking up and saying ‘ hey we 've got to do something about it ’ . |
| 22 | We shall compare graphs of depth one with graphs described in terms of sets of phonemes . |
| 23 | For the moment we need to notice that if normality is to be defined not in terms of contextual plausibility but in terms of frequency of attested occurrence , then in principle the teacher , selecting language by this criterion , would be confined to a presentation of expressions which realized a particular combination of syntactic elements with particular lexical items . |
| 24 | In terms of percentage of income invested in R&D the USA scored lowest and the FRG highest , Japan being only slightly above the USA . |
| 25 | The libretto now needs writing , not in terms of expectation of aid from elsewhere — little will come — but expressing the room for the innate , self-help strengths of local people and communities . |
| 26 | These statistics expressed in terms of expectation of life testify even more vividly to the distance Western society has travelled in being able to take the survival of our children almost for granted . |
| 27 | If the Labour Party had announced , in 1964 or 66 , its intention to ‘ oppose capitalism ’ fundamentally and had explained what this was likely to involve in terms of dislocation of international trade and payments ( even Callaghan 's mildly redistributive budget of 1964 was enough to cause a run on the pound ) , and the onus which would have to be placed on the trade unions in running industry , given the likely non-co-operation of many among the managerial strata , it is quite implausible to say they would have been elected to office . |
| 28 | But postmodernist culture is often consumed , though differently ( e.g. a film like Robocop ) , by both those ( 1 ) who use the categories of every-day life , and ( 2 ) those with the specialized classificatory frameworks who then see postmodernism in terms of transgression of modernist conventions . |
| 29 | The pound has been very strong recently , particularly in the United States , where they 've got a weak dollar , and we have to put over the message that there are tremendous deals to be had erm both in air fares and when you get here in terms of hotel rates erm and in terms of prices of food and so forth . |
| 30 | It concentrates particularly upon benefit in terms of deferment of long-term or short-term institutionalisation ( Was the project successful in sustaining at home people who without the enhanced care would have been in institutional care earlier ? ) . |