Example sentences of "in terms [prep] [noun] [prep] " 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 | And the jus of lex may be understood in terms of faithfulness to the formal principles inherent in the character of lex . |
| 9 | At the same time , the historian is liable to think in terms of England as a nation , and of English society as essentially one . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One can only understand how things are in terms of concepts in the first place , so in a sense the concepts came first since natural conditions only gain significance in terms of the way one had learned to see them . |
| 18 | How do the various classes fare in terms of participation in national wealth ? |
| 19 | Whatever occupational gesture ( mime ) a choreographer chooses to use in ballet , it must be envisaged in terms of dance without the use of props . |
| 20 | Thus , I speak even of my theatrical experience in terms of reference to printed texts — witnessing a quarto Hamlet or the uncut Folio text . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | Does he not agree that such a programme could , amongst other things , establish an effective linkage between western support for economic development and the response from the newly independent states in terms of schedules for comprehensive , verifiable , and quicker disarmament ? |
| 23 | He pointed out that some countries — mainland China , Sri Lanka , Mexico , India , for instance — had failed to achieve as dramatic increases in terms of GNP per head as , say , Korea , but had nevertheless progressed in terms of individual entitlements to food , housing , literacy , health and life expectancy ( Sen , 1984 , p. 485 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Wright , Smith and Campbell were all guilty of misses against Ipswich , who side that regrettably lacked any ambition and contributed nothing in terms of entertainment to a poor contest . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Leadership , however , is not to be thought of only in terms of resistance to the crown . |
| 28 | In terms of effects on the supply of work effort , a case against the current system of direct taxes and in favour of a switch towards indirect taxes might be made in the specific cases of poverty and unemployment traps . |
| 29 | This was not argued particularly in terms of service to the consumer . |
| 30 | 1990 was a year of substantial achievement for the Association in terms of development of welfare facilities and in fund-raising . |