Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] ad [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story of sleep was revolutionized in the early 19605 by the systematization of the previously ad hoc methods for estimating sleep depth and quality , using EEG ( brainwave ) and other measures . |
| 2 | One other example of a possibly ad hoc hypothesis from the history of science will be briefly mentioned . |
| 3 | A tempting short cut is often suggested by numerology , fiddling around in a totally ad hoc way with formulae to produce a ( more or less ) numerical fit to some data . |
| 4 | The fact of class conflict is not denied , but is seen as only one of several sources of conflict within society ; and perhaps most crucially of all , the stratificationalist approach to class is unlike the Marxist approach in that it is used in a fairly ad hoc way as an analytic tool , rather than as part of an integrated sociohistorical theory . |
| 5 | Many of the right kinds of incentives will be put in place , but will decision-makers respond by carefully considering their options within an economic evaluation framework , or will by respond in a more ad hoc manner ? |
| 6 | This is happening in an extremely ad hoc fashion at present . |
| 7 | Those local education authorities which have begun seriously to seek a place in the curriculum of their schools for locally-used languages have in many cases to be content with providing their own in-service training on a relatively ad hoc basis . |
| 8 | This suggests that such firms are reacting on a more ad hoc basis to pressure in the market , the report says . |
| 9 | In the Ptolemaic system , retrograde motion was explained by the somewhat ad hoc manoeuvre of adding epicycles especially designed for the purpose . |