Example sentences of "term [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These may be referred to as paradigmatic or conceptual collocates [ Smadja , 1989 ] , and are characterised by an equal distribution of one term about the other within a given context ( e.g. ’ mortgage ’ & ’ property ’ can occur anywhere within the same sentence in relation to each other ) . |
| 2 | There is no longer an equal distribution of one term about the other : ’ hesitate ’ always precedes ’ contact ’ by two words . |
| 3 | However , insiders are convinced that Drummond and Cauty , who have previously released material as The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu , The Timelords and The JAMS , are likely to end their term as The KLF , and return after their sabbatical in Mexico under an entirely new guise . |
| 4 | Although the World Health Organisation defines term as 37–42 completed weeks of pregnancy ( 259–294 days ) , most pregnant woman and many midwives think of term as the expected date of delivery . |
| 5 | We can derive the term as the covariance between Y and the terms on the right-hand side of equation ( 3.8 ) since these terms in sum equal C. Thus , assuming that Y t and t are uncorrelated we have : |
| 6 | In the previous chapter we have defined this relative price term as the current price in the local market relative to the expected current average price across all markets . |
| 7 | For the present it is sufficient to explain the term as the apparent increase in the size of a subject as the illumination intensity increases . |
| 8 | The Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu ( PBB ) of Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud , which had ruled the state for 10 years and formed part of the ruling National Front coalition at federal level , was returned to power for a further five-year term as the dominant member of the self-styled Bavisan Tiga ( Front of Three ) which altogether won 49 seats , of which the PPB had 27 , the Sarawak United People 's Party 16 , and the Sarawak National Party six [ for April 1987 elections see p. 35460 ] . |
| 9 | We referred above to the term as the systematic component of an accelerationist inflationary process : from an educated prediction of the magnitude of we should be able to make a reasonably good stab at inferring the value of . |
| 10 | A government statement said that 1,120 ‘ subversives ’ , the official term for the JVP , surrendered in the six days in return for rehabilitation and the promise of jobs . |
| 11 | This declaration proved to be premature , although a recommendation that there should be a longer term for the candidate stage towards full party membership must have provided a useful mechanism for sifting the wheat from the chaff . |
| 12 | The ‘ lobby ’ is the shorthand term for the club of political journalists who attend off-the-record briefings with the prime minister 's press secretary . |
| 13 | Many agree however that to maintain that the Report argued for a single worker appropriate to all situations is false , and would endorse Hey in her suggestion that generalist , even general purpose , may be the more appropriate term for the individual the Committee envisaged . |
| 14 | Spasticity , which comes from the word ‘ spasm ’ , has become known as the common term for the whole range of cerebral palsy handicaps but the three forms are significantly different . |
| 15 | ‘ Technology ’ , for Robbins as for Pynchon , becomes a short-hand term for the conditioning and patterning pressures in American life ; pressures to be resisted whether in his comic struggle with his Remington type-writer which frames his next novel , Still Life with Woodpecker ( 1980 ) , or , more importantly , through his disruption of narrative illusion and orderly sequence . |
| 16 | ( Dulcie Howes pointed out that he should have written ‘ borders ’ , the theatre term for the cloths which mask the ‘ flies ’ — platforms above the stage — from public view . |
| 17 | The proper term for the remedy was not actio , which was the term of the ordinary procedure , but persecutio ( or petitio ) . |
| 18 | This is simply a term for the major reflex which has the power to control all the other reflexes so as to direct the body in a coordinated and balanced way . |
| 19 | As a result , the mousse is not quite as fine as that of its more expensive wine , Brut , Metodo Classico , the Italian term for the champagne method . |
| 20 | For some reason , this shortened form fell into disuse after the Second World War and the more affectionate ‘ moggie ! ’ returned as the popular term for the ordinary , common-or-garden cat . |
| 21 | The technical term for the speech-like noise that babies produce before they learn to talk is ‘ jargoning ’ . |
| 22 | The immense difficulties lying in the way of an understanding of the mysteries of generation , and the late stage in history when the riddle was solved , is also evident when we consider another commonly used term for the sperm cell , namely ‘ spermatozoon ’ . |
| 23 | And incidentally may I point out that the proper term for the external female genitalia is vulva . |
| 24 | The term KBS is often used as a generic term for the type of AI system classified as expert . |
| 25 | Leopold 's own career progressed slowly and unadventurously : by 1758 he had risen up the ranks to become second violin , and also court and chamber composer , and five years later he became deputy kapellmeister ( the German term for the musician in charge of a musical establishment ) . |
| 26 | All these viral infections have the same symptoms in the first few days — a patient might have ‘ flu , measles , hepatitis — ye canna tell during the porodomal period' — he used the technical term for the period of incubation . |
| 27 | Other writers have used ‘ liberal ’ as a blanket term for the whole broad line of development which runs from Schleiermacher . |
| 28 | This is an alliance of neo-fascists and communists known by most Russians simply as ‘ the reds and browns ’ ( browns after ‘ brown plague ’ , the term for the xenophobic hysteria that swept through Russia in the late 19th century ) . |
| 29 | In the same way , Fanon suggests that at the political level the so-called ‘ Third World ’ constitutes the disruptive term for the European political dialectic of capitalism and socialism . |
| 30 | Britain constitutes the greater part of the British Isles , a geographical term for the group of islands off the northwest coast of Europe . |