Example sentences of "on its [adj] terms " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resolutions will have to be evidenced in writing and all contracts between the company and the sole member ( if the sole member is also the sole director , bearing in mind that a director need not be a member ) will have to be in writing unless entered into in the ordinary course of the company 's business on its usual terms and conditions . |
| 2 | A business may come to rely too heavily on its standard terms rather than on other , commercial safeguards , such as adequate quality or credit control systems . |
| 3 | If a dispute arises between the parties to a contract and one of them seeks to rely on its standard terms , the first question the other party 's legal advisers will ask is " Do the terms apply ? " or , to put it another way , " Were the terms incorporated into the contract ? " |
| 4 | When a contract is made following initial telephone contact and one party tries to rely on its standard terms , it is likely that the other will dispute the incorporation of the terms . |
| 5 | However , it will presumably be rare that a business can be held not to be acting in the course of business if it sells goods on its standard terms . |
| 6 | Addressing Honderich 's work on its own terms , one must question whether he demonstrates the complete vacuity of Conservative thinking . |
| 7 | ‘ Pride and dignity ’ appears to be barely different from conventional ambition/self-presentation/self-nurture , ultimately amounting to little more than the uncritical desire to participate in society on its own terms . |
| 8 | But this begs the question : does ‘ pride and dignity ’ amount to anything more than the aspiration to participate in society on its own terms ? |
| 9 | There were an increasing number of scientists , engineers , doctors , economists and statisticians who were prepared to challenge the industry on its own terms . |
| 10 | Such is the latest outcome of forty years of enthusiastic and single-minded agriculture , of which an equally enthusiastic drainage policy has been an essential part , that conservationists are now questioning the aims of intensive river management on its own terms of hard-headed economics and efficiency . |
| 11 | But that release must be confirmed on its own terms and in its own modality . |
| 12 | The hunt will occur later , on its own terms and in its own time . |
| 13 | He challenged them in a way which in the end they were unable to resist answering on its own terms , countering charisma with charisma . |
| 14 | The strings and horns are both lush and delicate , gone completely are the swooping whoops and hollers — Sinead sings , gently , sweetly , taking the material totally on its own terms . |
| 15 | He and others set up a rival ‘ underground ’ publication , the Shilling Paper , which , though a great success on its own terms , was useless as a credential for getting straight on to a Fleet Street paper such as the Sunday Times . |
| 16 | In trying to deal with non-academic work on its own terms it is carrying on the debate opened in the recent exhibitions of ‘ High and Low ’ at MOMA and ‘ Parallel Visions ’ at LACMA . |
| 17 | In spite of the visual evidence , Lam is presented less as a modernist than as a rebel against modernism , as the outsider who challenges Europe on its own terms and wins . |
| 18 | Certainly by 1831 it was generally supposed on both sides of the Commons that the 1823 approach had failed and that even on its own terms the government was committed to revising its policy . |
| 19 | This attack on the argument for what I have called the traditional Marxist account of the state begins by taking it on its own terms . |
| 20 | No hierarchical ranking of the paintings and objects it contains is attempted ; each is there to be contemplated on its own terms . |
| 21 | TV made plays , told the news , taught school , increasingly on its own terms , not as a parasite , imitator or tolerated intruder concealed as a hat-stand . |
| 22 | World War I brought an unprecedented economic boom and recognition of Japan 's acquisition of Great Power status — the only Asian country able to compete with the West on its own terms . |
| 23 | Instead of simply proclaiming " art for art 's sake " they attempted to create a body of work which was on its own terms self-sufficient , with its own order and tradition , capable of embodying and communicating its own values . |
| 24 | At the time of the Korean War in 1950 he feared a Soviet invasion and he believed that the USSR would only agree to German reunification on its own terms , which could well result in Communist rule . |
| 25 | Although positivists treat scientific knowledge as the paradigm of all knowledge ( implicit in the expression ‘ hard sciences ’ ) , in practice the criteria for judging the development or fruitfulness of bodies of knowledge in higher education seems to be relative to those bodies , and each field is judged largely on its own terms by those who work in it , although outsiders may have other and sometimes more sceptical views . |
| 26 | But it is with this group that antiracism can be most readily identified and we need to examine it on its own terms and in its relationship to other more easily identifiable class groupings . |
| 27 | One strategy involved tackling the profession on its own terms , refuting statistics and medical claims that the acts led to improvements in morality and public order through a mass of published tracts and pamphlets . |
| 28 | It 's a ludicrous game of make-believe and let's pretend , and the biggest let's pretend is that Britain is fighting a war of principle , on its own terms , for purposes which the people understand and support , and for aims which can be realised by war . |
| 29 | I know what happens if you take this place on its own terms . |
| 30 | On its own terms , meanwhile , the new philology went from strength to strength . |