Example sentences of "in [adj] terms the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The writers of the industrial novels were never able to resolve in fictional terms the ideological contradictions inherent in their own situation in society . |
| 2 | The loss of an efficient officer , however , was not to be accepted without protest by the captain who lost his services , and Captain Robert Digby , for example , protested in strong terms the impending transfer of Midshipman Callender from his ship to Captain Keith Stewart 's Berwick in 1778 , pointing out that ‘ this Mr. Callender I made a midshipman myself upon finding Sir Lawrence Dundas was his friend ’ and complained of ‘ Scotch captains being allowed to pick the quarterdecks of other ships without the captain 's consent … ’ |
| 3 | In 1357 the clerical author of the short De miserabili statu regni Francie , reflecting upon the disaster of Poitiers , praised the courage of the king , John II , who had fought bravely up to the very moment of his capture , but condemned in strong terms the failure and lack of heart of the nobility , the ‘ duces belli ’ who had failed in their obligation to the French state . |
| 4 | A preliminary study has compared social work response and service delivery across organizational types , with the objective of seeing in what ways these differed , and whether any differences could plausibly be related to the factors ( for example of knowledge and skill ) said to distinguish in broad terms the organizational types . |
| 5 | 16.20 From level 5 , strand ( i ) in the statements of attainment describes in broad terms the kinds of literature that pupils will read at successive levels , taking into account the various dimensions of text difficulty described in paragraph 7.17 . |
| 6 | This detailed investigation revealed that , although in broad terms the earlier proposals were supported , the total number of files held by the departments ( ie approximately 60,000 ) , and the variety of ways in which outposted files were managed and used , would make the cost of providing a sophisticated computer system throughout excessively high , compared to the benefits that could accrue . |
| 7 | A review of the significance of natural contamination to planning and development in Great Britain is being carried out for the DOE with the aim of outlining in broad terms the relevance of the physical and chemical restraints on planning and development imposed by natural contamination . |
| 8 | The issue raised by Hadow and developed by Plowden was simply this — is it possible to construct an educational programme which will meet in broad terms the needs of young children and adequately prepare them for secondary schooling , the stresses and strains of adolescence and adulthood beyond ? |
| 9 | Erm so in in broad terms the master plan is is unchanged in concept but we think improved in detail the is the other thing at each end erm represents on the left hand side er , what is currently Honey Hill I believe the name may be changed in due course erm and those behind me here are the houses on the Fern Hill side and then , although some of you will have difficulty seeing it at the moment , at the bottom there are detailed drawings showing the internal arrangement of the houses and flats and , and detailed drawings of the elevations with dimensions , so one can have a have a bit of a feel for the the sort of space standards that we 've aimed at , but there are in fact , furniture plans shown on the drawings . |
| 10 | However , given the importance of receiving the information required under the section 39 notice to the Bank 's supervision of the defendant and in order to support the [ defendants ' ] application , I am able to state in broad terms the grounds of the investigation and the reasons for the Bank 's supervisory concern . |
| 11 | What is required is that the patient knew in broad terms the nature and effect of the procedure to which consent ( or refusal ) was given . |
| 12 | We agree that in broad terms the mean number of heterosexual partners reported by men must be equal to the mean number reported by women over a specified time interval in a closed population . |
| 13 | the Objects of the Association , which are set out below , describe in broad terms the aims and goals of the Association ; |
| 14 | It is essential when planning for negotiations to define in broad terms the stances that will be adopted . |
| 15 | Within the programme , in broad terms the priorities in descending order are : |
| 16 | ‘ In broad terms the acrylics are mature products , ’ he says , ‘ So the general expectation must be that they are likely to grow at much the same rate as the economy of the industrial world as a whole . |
| 17 | In economic terms the truth of the matter was that Western capitalism had underinvested , overspent ( as one does at a party ) and failed to keep the machine in running order . |
| 18 | In economic terms the state has now become a mammoth corporation which produces coal , steel , oil , gas and electricity ; the primary source of rail and major source of air and other transport services ; the greatest property and house owner in the whole country ; a provider of most educational and health services ; a massive supplier of welfare services , for the young , the old , the pregnant , the unemployed , the disabled and the poor ; and a disposer of grants and subsidies on a scale hitherto unknown in human societies . |
| 19 | But in economic terms the relationship was different . |
| 20 | Chapter 4 extended the analysis to consider in economic terms the position of the ‘ personal sector ’ wage and salary-earning employees , and the effects of the saving of this sector on accumulation — the expansion of the salaried strata in particular being , at least in part , the obverse of the rise of the impersonal capital . |
| 21 | Turkish officials made references to a projected special relationship with the 42,000,000 Turkic peoples in the Soviet Union ( in Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan , Turkmenia and Uzbekistan ) , although in economic terms the states bordering on the Black Sea were of more immediate interest to Turkey . |
| 22 | He was able to convey in grotesque terms the characters of George III and his family . |
| 23 | In agricultural terms the death and resurrection of Osiris as a very early nature god were celebrated each year in simple popular ceremonies at the time of the Nile flood , when the seed crop was sown and when the harvest was gathered . |
| 24 | In political terms the position might be quite different for parties and non-parties , as exemplified by the response of the United States and the concern expressed by certain European States at New Zealand 's decisions . |
| 25 | In political terms the myth preserves some dim historical elements of a time during the Predynastic Period when Egypt was divided into two kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt , each with its own ruler . |
| 26 | By defining the object of policy in spatial terms the contradictory interests represented may be understandably subsumed in a real or imagined community identity which stems from or reproduces the notion of shared interests ( see Sue Buckingham-Hatfield 's case study in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 27 | In European terms the whole of the United Kingdom may be considered as a peripheral region and even the South East has relatively under-developed links with the Continent . |
| 28 | In descriptive terms the argument is that decision-making is always incremental . |
| 29 | This too seems to have involved the fear of regression ; in social terms the inferior who stands opposite one in the world , thereby confirming one 's superiority , also stands behind one . |
| 30 | In ethno-linguistic terms the ‘ oldest ’ peoples of Siberia are those speaking the ‘ Palaeoasiatic , languages , which can not be related to any known families of languages outside Siberia . |