Example sentences of "term of the [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A civil duty to take reasonable care of guests ' property brought to the premises , under the tort of negligence , or as an implied term of the contract of booking . |
| 2 | By treating his subject as widely as possible , by seeing it in terms of the history of war , rather than as the more narrowly defined military history , the modern student will come to understand it in its many facets and complexities . |
| 3 | In fact , most commentators ( and many left academics ) would feel able to divide the " post-war period into three distinct phases in terms of the kind of choice offered to the electorate by the parties in their programmes . |
| 4 | At the point of a successful match the worker is described in terms of the kinds of job he could do and the job is described in terms of the kind of worker needed to do it , Table 2.7 . |
| 5 | Heyman ( 1981 ) has stressed the importance of seeing the curriculum not only as a set of structures and functions , but phenomenologically , in terms of the kind of experience that its various participants together create . |
| 6 | In a later elaboration of his perspective , Anderson argues more generally that kin relations must always be understood in terms of the kind of calculations people make , and this should provide the starting-point for any analysis : ‘ if we are to understand variations and patterns of kinship relationships , the only worthwhile approach is to consciously and explicitly investigate the manifold advantages and disadvantages that any actor can obtain from maintaining one relational pattern rather than another ’ ( Anderson , 1972 , p. 226 ) . |
| 7 | Certainly they are incomplete in terms of the kind of information we might have elicited through observation , interview and questionnaire . |
| 8 | For Dworkin 's rights thesis is put forward in the context of an institutional environment which operates a clear division of labour between courts and other institutions in terms of the kind of argument which may be deployed in each ( Brownsword and Harden , 1981 ) . |
| 9 | But in terms of the idea of attachment objects can be very varied . |
| 10 | Baker said that the United States would not recognize Slovenia or Croatia as international subjects , but spoke in favourable terms of the idea of Yugoslavia becoming a loose alliance of states as in the Izetbegovic-Gligorov compromise proposal [ see above ] , and warned , at the end of his visit , of the tragic consequences of Yugoslav instability . |
| 11 | The British crown was expected to pass to the Dowager Duchess Sophia of Hanover , by virtue of the terms of the Act of Settlement , but Sophia died early in 1714 , shortly before Anne died on 1st . |
| 12 | Some , though knowing the terms of the Act of Settlement , or of the similar statute now in force , steer clear of the problem because they are afraid of it . |
| 13 | But in terms of the change of policy , does this fit with the , the kind of Maoist view of excesses ? |
| 14 | Education , on the other hand , has become increasingly important as a discriminating variable , that is , in terms of the level of education achieved . |
| 15 | That does n't appear to be much erm in terms of quantity in our estimation in terms of the level of provision that Leeds and Bradford er are providing , but it would create a major problem er in North Yorkshire . |
| 16 | and although it is being set up to promote a rich peasant economy in order to pave the way for Chinese industrialization , that has not been particularly successful either in terms of the level of output and therefore the levels or in terms of inequalities in that one of the , one of the worrying things that comes through , that comes through , despite the tax system there are still very substantial inequalities and i is the promotion of mutual aid a means , a perceived means of reducing or containing those inequalities ? |
| 17 | Max Weber , in the famous Zwischenbetrachtungen , presented his most systematic conceptualization of modernity , which he understood in terms of the separation of value spheres and life orders ( Lebensordnungen ) . |
| 18 | The YSP central committee at its 19th meeting , on Feb. 15 , 1990 , discussed the implications of Yemeni unity in terms of the separation of party from state functions under a multi-party system , reportedly accepting the need for far-reaching restructuring of the party . |
| 19 | The data given in figure 10.2 can be re-expressed in terms of the ratio of men 's hourly pay to women 's , which fell in the mid-1970s from the traditional level , around 1.67 , to 1.45 in 1977 and after . |
| 20 | An alternative method , useful in some cases , is to express frequency in terms of the ratio of occurrences of one category to occurrences of another : for example , the ratio of nouns to adjectives . |
| 21 | The terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki concluded on 17 April included Japanese possession of Formosa , the Pescadores Islands and the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria , the opening by China of four more treaty ports and the payment to Japan of a sizeable indemnity . |
| 22 | This led to a great setback for the Company ; by the early 1680s it seemed to have established itself , and paid its first dividends , at about 50 per cent a year , but it was then caught up in England 's wars against France , the bases were captured , and no regular dividends could be paid until after it had got its property back under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
| 23 | She was compelled to sue for peace and under the terms of the Treaty of Paris was disarmed on the Black Sea . |
| 24 | The Tsar 's forces were humiliated by land and sea and under the terms of the Treaty of Paris Russia was disarmed on the Black Sea . |
| 25 | It was probably the success of these steps which , in 1337 , caused Philip VI to decide upon the building of a naval base at La Rochelle , a base which was to be ceded to the English by the terms of the treaty of Brétigny , thereby underlining the significance of ports as pawns in international diplomacy . |
| 26 | Above all , however , de Gaulle was worried that under the terms of the Treaty of Rome , the EEC was supposed , in January 1966 , to take more of its decisions by majority votes , which could force France to accept policies she did not want . |
| 27 | The British Parliament is therefore being asked to ratify a Treaty which by the terms of the Treaty of Rome is defunct and which Denmark is likely to wish to see fundamentally changed . |
| 28 | At a more general level , by the terms of the Treaty of Rome that first initiated the EC in 1957 , member countries are independent of their national governments and are not able to accept instructions from them . |
| 29 | Because David II , the new infant king , or his regent reneged on some of the terms of the treaty of Northampton , Edward gave his support to the rival claimant , Edward Balliol . |
| 30 | Then he sent Richard to Aquitaine with orders which went beyond the terms of the Treaty of Montlouis . |