Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] terms [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy enough to analyse the formal characteristics of African sculpture in terms of vertical , horizontal or diagonal emphases ; of relative naturalism or abstraction ; of rounded , angular or cubic elements ; or in terms of tensions , rhythm and movement , and this is certainly an enjoyable and satisfying experience , since African sculptors have achieved a remarkable level of expression in what has been called ‘ purely sculptural ’ form . |
| 2 | The alternatives would be to theorize exclusively in terms of neuronal processes ( impossibly fine-grained ) or in terms of drawing inferences from ‘ cues ’ ( inappropriately rational ) . |
| 3 | Or rather , the distinctions between the repressed and the excluded , the subjective and the social , break down , especially when we recall that the other is often constructed via , or in terms of , the proximate . |
| 4 | In contrast the authoritarian nature of Tanzanian politics can more usefully be measured by the number of political detainees which exceeded several hundred in the mid 1970s or in terms of the degree of pressure brought to bear on the rural population from 1974 to 1978 . |
| 5 | Where a woman fails to perform her expected role properly the GP tends to see her ‘ either in terms of the conventional models of their own social background ( she must adjust to her situation ) , or in terms of individual personal inadequacy ( that she must be referred to the psychiatrist ) ’ ( Barrett and Roberts , 1978 , p. 46 ) . |
| 6 | Comparison of the results of the two groups shown in Fig. 5.7 also allows us to reject an explanation in terms of changes in associability or in terms of the transfer of some specific response that directly modifies test performance . |
| 7 | Inadequate cleaning staff are in a position to do a great deal of damage to an organisation either through actual damage to the fabric or equipment or in terms of food product loss , reputation or image . |
| 8 | In much the same way the possible causes for behaviour either in terms of triggers , or in terms of payoffs must be expressed as precise statements . |
| 9 | Moreover , we believe that the knowledge worker in its broadest sense is any member of the labor force who adds value to a data or information product whether or not that added value is primarily in terms of packaging and delivering the message , or in terms of enhancing the meaning and usability of the message … . |
| 10 | Training needs can be considered at several levels , for example in terms of general categories of need , such as induction , job , or development needs , or in terms of specific subject needs . |
| 11 | There , I would be just as much a stranger , but they would have to define themselves against me as natives against incomers , or in terms of social classification . |
| 12 | Missing from Prescott 's ‘ visionary ’ list was any mention of the new wave of ‘ green ’ concerns , or of the democratisation of British society , either in the wider constitutional and electoral context , or in terms of Labour 's own internal democracy and its relationship with the trade unions . |
| 13 | This information may then be represented statistically ; in terms of the frequency of occurrence of combinations of letters , or in terms of the probability that some letter is preceded by some combination of a number of other letters ( transitional probabilities ) ; or non-statistically in terms of whether or not some combination of letters occurs in the source . |
| 14 | It should now be clear that Buid attitudes toward peace and violence can not be understood in terms of innate psycho-biological dispositions , or in terms of their adaptation of the natural environment . |
| 15 | The systems approach is often a convenient way of looking at human behaviour either internally — this is man as a set of sub-systems or in terms of the man interacting with mechanisms — man-machine systems , or man interacting with organisations — socio-technical systems . |
| 16 | However , at some stage he will return to reality and say , for example , ‘ what this means in practice or in terms of my next experiment … ’ |
| 17 | Differentiation refers to the positivist assumption that there is something ( preferably measurably ) different about criminals ; they may be seen as differing from non-criminals in terms of their biological or psychological make-up , or in terms of their values , again according to the academic origins of the criminologist concerned . |
| 18 | No account is taken of the importance of housework to women , either in terms of the simple amount of time women spend on domestic-care activities , or in terms of the personal meaning of housework to women ( which may , of course , vary with different social locations ) . |
| 19 | They may be planned deliberately to give the undergraduate a good general education , for example by sampling or balancing a number of types of knowledge , or they may he planned in terms of an applied , problem focus such as environmental control , or a broad theme such as modern urban society , or in terms of some concept of individual development . |
| 20 | Four m. come-capital groups were defined , each with access to different forms of housing , either in terms of tenure or in terms of the number of bedrooms available . |
| 21 | These are important to a great many people , whether they are perceived in terms of localised effects impinging on their everyday lives or in terms of the national picture which emerges from news media coverage and wider reading . |
| 22 | I believe that this application for a residence order is yet another step in this game and that neither parent has been able or willing to see matters from the children 's point of view or in terms of their feelings , experiences and level of understanding . |
| 23 | Secondly , regional and local populations do not by any means constitute faithful microcosms of the national population , either in terms of the rates of change in their size or in terms of their composition by age , sex , household type and socio-economic characteristics ( Lawton , 1982 ) . |
| 24 | Thus a ‘ bad novel ’ does everything that the category ‘ novel ’ indicates , at the level of generic definition , but then fails to do something else , either in its ‘ aesthetic process ’ or in terms of its ‘ seriousness ’ or its ‘ relation to reality ’ ( which , at least explicitly , the original definition had not included ) . |
| 25 | Erm in t , how di , does that in any way affect you know the kind of things you eat or in terms of diet ? |
| 26 | The need continually to monitor one 's standards of attainment may be new to some teachers , but is an essential part of self- evaluation : community language teachers may not be ready for the responsibilities placed on them in terms of analysing pupils ' needs and progress , or in terms of raising the status of a language . |
| 27 | This is extremely difficult to justify either in terms of legislative intent , or in terms of the relative competence of the two institutions . |
| 28 | The displacement model which has historically prevailed in schools ' responses to troublesome children has failed to show a satisfactory effectiveness either in terms of outcome for identified pupils or in terms of relieving pressure on teachers . |
| 29 | Analyses of sexism in the curriculum should also include identification of what is left out , either within subject areas , or in terms of potential links between areas of knowledge : my contention is that the higher the prestige , and the more valuable a credential the subject becomes , the more likely it is to exclude issues , themes and approaches which relate to personal and female domains . |
| 30 | There is , first , the relationship between rich and poor nations , which may be conceived in terms of neo-imperialism and dependency ( but in that case imperialism has to be seen in a wider perspective than that which treats it exclusively as a stage in the development of capitalism , important though this latter process is ) , or in terms of the current preoccupation with a ‘ North-South dialogue ’ , which is today more a confrontation than a dialogue . |