Example sentences of "term like [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will , of course , have encountered them in literary rather than in critical texts , but he will nevertheless appreciate the polysemy of a term like différance and not feel uncomfortable without a definition of its proper or primary meaning ( there is none ) . |
| 2 | How many times has one ever had recourse to a term like anadiplosis ? |
| 3 | Although a term like dog may be over-extended to pick out cats , sheep , and horses , it is also used to pick out dogs ( e.g. , Clark , 1973a , 1983b ; Leopold , 1949 ; Pavlovitch , 1920 ) . |
| 4 | Terms like multicurrency , multilanguage and pan-European mean different things to different people — especially software suppliers . |
| 5 | Terms like multicurrency , multilanguage and pan-European mean different things to different people especially software suppliers |
| 6 | Terms like junk bonds and LBOs tripped off the tongue . |
| 7 | The adaptation of linguistic terms like mood and of rhetorical terms like ellipsis is not so much designed to construct rigid parallels either with language or with rhetoric , but rather is itself a rhetorical device for freeing narrative from any referential interpretation . |
| 8 | Terms like cunt and slag are bandied about even more often than the cock and the fist , and once again , women do not have a parallel powerful language with which to hit back . |
| 9 | Because terms like highway hypnosis , DWA and DWAM have been used somewhat indiscriminately in the literature previously this thesis will reserve them exclusively for the hypothetical trance-like state which may be a precursor to motorway accidents and use Reason 's term ‘ time-gap experience ’ to refer to this second phenomenon . |
| 10 | And because it had that name she did n't link it up to other terms like masturbation or whatever . |
| 11 | Orientational terms like top and bottom are narrowed with the addition of front , back and side ( Kuczaj and Maratsos , 1975 ; Clark , 1980 ) . |
| 12 | Women — like children — tend to be called by their first names where men would not be ; and they are also recipients of endearment terms like love , dear , honey , pet , hen and so on . |
| 13 | Definitions were always crucial in this debate , and the Church of England Board for Social Responsibility in its submission to Williams made a useful contribution to clarifying the distinctions between terms like eroticism , pornography , and obscenity : |
| 14 | It appals me that anybody in government can considerate it appropriate to use terms like mum 's army , with the connotations that that has with Captain Mainwaring and his bimbling set of idiots . |
| 15 | My loathing of terms like depression and despair , he wrote . |
| 16 | erm so I 'm aware I 'm I just like to know if Gordon is actually aware of the terms like team working net working erm . |
| 17 | It is all very well to say that terms like astronaut and artisan conjure up , for understandable reasons , male rather than female associations . |
| 18 | The adaptation of linguistic terms like mood and of rhetorical terms like ellipsis is not so much designed to construct rigid parallels either with language or with rhetoric , but rather is itself a rhetorical device for freeing narrative from any referential interpretation . |
| 19 | Jones sets out to document and to praise the distinctive historical and contemporary modes of women 's speech , ignored by linguists and trivialised culturally by terms like gossip ( which Jones proposes to reclaim ) . |
| 20 | ( There is , in fact , no adequate definition of ‘ natural kind ’ terms like horse — see chapter 6 — so if one term of an endonymous pair is a natural kind term , and the other is a nominal kind term , then the natural kind term is automatically the endonym . ) |
| 21 | To adopt the Copernican system entailed a rethinking on matters of biblical interpretation , but it also involved a reconsideration of what was meant by terms like corruptibility . |
| 22 | Additionally , we should recall that , before the nineteenth century , the meanings of terms like sodomy and buggery might have been even wider than is suggested by Foucault 's argument . |
| 23 | And terms like information professional , at this early stage , often tend to do more harm than good . |