Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] terms [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each contribution , from whatever source , is capable of assessment in terms of units of goodness , and when that goodness is accepted as such by a large majority , it can be enshrined in the Created God . |
| 2 | In fact I think the people who are looking in the direction of change in terms of parent governors and P T As etcetera are , I think looking in the wrong direction . |
| 3 | I would say that to we should give you a bit of freedom in terms of price , therefore I think we should er allow you to spend up to say five thousand pounds ? |
| 4 | In contrast the explanations of racism in terms of prejudice ( B ) or self interest ( E ) offer ‘ get out clauses ’ for whites and pinpoint specific types of motive or intent which may yield tactical priorities in antiracist work . |
| 5 | The one area of Conservative history which has flourished is political biography , but the danger of this is a tendency to reduce the history of the Conservative Party to a history of personalities and to avoid any analysis of Conservatism in terms of structures , interests and ideas . |
| 6 | Heisenberg 's relation [ 2 ] enforces upon us a choice if we wish to attempt a description of physics in terms of exact quantities . |
| 7 | Wittgenstein 's contribution to ‘ dissolving ’ the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem has two sides to it : one negative , an attack on the experiential explanation of the meaning of pain-language in terms of ‘ the feeling itself ’ ; and one positive , a fact-presupposing explanation of the meaning of pain-language . |
| 8 | I said that Wittgenstein paid more attention to the negative side of his teaching , his attack on the experiential explanation of the meaning of pain-language in terms of feelings , than to the positive side , his own explanation in terms of ‘ It hurts ’ replacing moaning . |
| 9 | We had wanted two contrasting areas ( more than two would have been preferable of course in terms of the extent to which one could generalise from our findings but the projects would become expensive and it was acknowledged that we could not include more than two ) , and Ipswich and Newham were felt to fill this requirement . |
| 10 | But of course in terms of partnership , you will have our support and any way we can aid and abet you then we shall do that , erm but you can tell from the questions and comments that we have some distress about the |
| 11 | Both the strength and limitation of Fabianism is to be found in its tendency to examine the benefits of collectivism in terms of economic efficiency . |
| 12 | Remember you can show signs of judgement in terms of your body language ( see p. 109 ) as well as with what you say . |
| 13 | These widely differing national responses suggest that we should be wary of any attempt to explain the popularity of evolutionism in terms of the self-evident superiority of Darwin 's explanatory programme . |
| 14 | Now , I know a sum of money of nearly twenty thousand may not seem a lot of money in total , it 's not a lot of money in terms of , it can be quite a large sum in terms of doing things with economic development . |
| 15 | Although the benefit of IVIG in terms of reduced infection and acute graft-versus-host disease ( GVHD ) has been shown among recipients of allogeneic marrow transplants , the mechanism of action , and the optimal dose and preparation , remain undefined . |
| 16 | With r = 0 , Equation ( 2.7.1.5 ) becomes unc Hence if we choose co to make k1 zero , it will contain no contribution from x1 , and , as r increases sufficiently to a value s , ( 2.7.1.5 ) will tend to unc The condition unc means that we can express one element of co in terms of the remaining n — 1 . |
| 17 | An analogy can be drawn with the judiciary , which is often involved in ‘ interpreting ’ Acts of Parliament in terms of Parliament 's intention . |
| 18 | Thus , although SS continues to show the labour supply curve in terms of the after-tax wage , we must draw in the higher schedule SS ' ; to show the supply of labour in terms of the gross or pre-tax wage . |
| 19 | For the effect of closure in terms of intergenerational movement is to provide for the reproduction of common life experiences over the generations . ’ |
| 20 | What you 're really saying is that a society which is perhaps stable , certainly better , is one in which there 's a fair degree of moderation and a fair degree of evenness in terms of |
| 21 | An important aspect might be embodied by Baudelaire 's characterization of modernism in terms of ‘ mouvement brusque ’ ( see Berman 1983 : 156ff . ) . |
| 22 | I am certain Lorentz and Fitzgerald regarded themselves as realists , interpreting the experiment on the speed of light in terms of Newtonian ideas of absolute space and absolute time . |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | Er and Stansted in fact now appears to be completely out of proportion in terms of a number of night flights er it is expected to cater for compared to both Heathrow and Stansted . |
| 25 | In essence , therefore , Williamson 's theory of the firm explains the existence , division and specialization of management in terms of economizing on resources used to make decisions . |
| 26 | They even describe this ‘ final cause ’ ( or , if you prefer , ‘ last straw ’ ) action of witchcraft in terms of a vivid hunting metaphor . |
| 27 | High adventure drew from Dickson McCunn a latent heroism : Thomas Carlyle Craw had buried his sense and courage far more deeply but they are at least glimpsed at the end of an adventure story which interprets the concept of honour in terms of individual rather than of chivalric motives . |
| 28 | Oriental disciplines of exercise such as Tai Chi Chuan and Qi Gung may sound strange and difficult , but are probably the most rewarding forms of exercise in terms of health . |
| 29 | After distinguishing different types of household in terms of their composition and structure , variation in income with age within each household type is not great . |
| 30 | The final chapter will attempt a more general model of consumption in terms of the concept of objectification . |