Example sentences of "[prep] [unc] hoc " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , the material presented is not some kind of post hoc analysis imposed upon the texts in the light of present-day concerns , removed from the ancients ' own understanding of the laws in their original context . |
| 2 | This is more profoundly a matter of the deeper cultural instilling of conformist values than of the effective threat of post hoc sanctions by the criminal justice system . |
| 3 | Given the lack of precision , it would not be too far fetched to claim that there is an element of post hoc rationalization in some of the definitions of the public service broadcasting notion . |
| 4 | The nineteenth century had seen a variety of ad hoc political bodies . |
| 5 | This would be a system of ad hoc law which would suggest that each novel situation warrants the creation of a new rule . |
| 6 | Eden , naturally , took Churchill 's place at the head of the Defence Committee , and the list of ad hoc committees he chaired reflects both his appetites and the intrinsic importance of their subject matter : GEN 502 on the supply of military aircraft ; GEN 503 on security in Cyprus ; GEN 506 on preparations for the meeting of foreign ministers of France , the UK , USSR and USA in Geneva in October 1955 ; and GEN 511 on a third Indian steel plant . |
| 7 | In this way local authorities became the only publicly elected bodies for the area having accumulated all the powers of ad hoc bodies . |
| 8 | In addition more detailed information is obtained on occasion in order to satisfy the needs of ad hoc detailed projects . |
| 9 | Thus , at the global scale , the International Council of Scientific Unions ( ICSU ) has endorsed the setting up of the International Geosphere Biosphere Project ( IGBP ) to ‘ describe and understand the interactive physical , chemical and biological processes that regulate the total Earth system , the unique environment it provides for life , the changes that are occurring in that system and the manner by which these changes are influenced by human actions ’ ( Report of ad hoc Planning Group for IGBP 1986 , quoted in IGBP 1988 ) . |
| 10 | All your behaviour , with the exception of those reflexes that were built into the system , has been acquired over a long period of ad hoc learning . |
| 11 | Perhaps it is sufficient to say that any mutually beneficial activity , properly planned , resourced and monitored is in scope , but that any member of ad hoc or unintegrated activities , however regularly they take place , are not . |
| 12 | The consultancy have been retained by the Thames Valley offices of leading international accountants and business advisers Ernst and Young following a period of ad hoc work for the firm in Reading and Swindon . |
| 13 | The Committee therefore concentrated on a series of ad hoc recommendations , relating to two main aspects of privacy — freedom from intrusion upon oneself , one 's home , family and relationships on the one hand , and privacy of information , that is the extent to which one can determine how information about oneself shall be handled , on the other . |
| 14 | As he points out , Libya has repeatedly offered to submit this dispute to international arbitration , to the International Court of Justice , to an international commission of investigation , or to some other type of ad hoc international institutional arrangement for the impartial investigation and adjudication of these allegations . |
| 15 | In the absence of a fully-developed theoretical model , Deaton and Beaumont ( 1980 ) use a number of ad hoc explanatory variables derived from the case-study literature of bargaining structure in an examination of almost 1000 establishments in the manufacturing sector in Britain . |
| 16 | That is why we think this is hardly the most opportune moment for IBM to wield the weapon of ad hoc pricing . |
| 17 | That has left the impression that trade policy is at the mercy of ad hoc decision-making by a variety of officials . |
| 18 | The Reagan administration 's success in building a series of ad hoc coalitions in support of key economic policy votes owed much to the brilliance of the White House staff with special responsibility for dealing with legislature . |
| 19 | The defection of southern Democrats was essential , but it should not be assumed that this came about automatically , As Stockman makes clear , a whole series of ad hoc coalitions involving many unreliable allies had to be painstakingly constructed . |
| 20 | This doing of justice en marche could be elevated to encompass the creation of ad hoc Anglo-French commissions ( with a strong Gascon element ) empowered to adjudicate disputes over services and obligations outside the formal appellate jurisdiction of the French crown . |
| 21 | They were not , however , modified according to any consistent principle , but by a variety of ad hoc remedies . |
| 22 | What is to ensure that the allocation of resources is not arbitrary , subject to the sway of ad hoc political pressure ? |
| 23 | There has been a kind of stalemate in the class struggle which has placed governments in the position of tackling deep-rooted problems with technocratic instruments of strictly limited effectiveness : they have held the line on the balance of payments by means of periodic deflation , which has not really solved anything ; they have periodically checked inflation and attempted to rebuild industrial profitability by means of ad hoc incomes policy but have been unable either to maintain popular support for such policies or to push forward to a comprehensive planning of prices and incomes , investment and consumption . |
| 24 | Galileo was able to outmanoeuvre his rival in the fruitless game of the invention of ad hoc devices for the protection of theories . |
| 25 | ( 5 ) The setting up of ad hoc sub-committees ( committees set up for one purpose only and disbanded after their task is accomplished ) is a useful technique to make sure that the Hon. |
| 26 | This enables each division to be treated as a separate profit centre , facilitating ‘ the imposition of standardized financial goals on the various divisions , in place of ad hoc evaluations of the performance of noncomparable functional parts ’ . |
| 27 | One response to a difficult situation , which is not without its merits , is the growth of ad hoc choirs and groups , singing on special occasions . |
| 28 | The evolution of state education during the nineteenth century provides a good example of a series of ad hoc responses . |
| 29 | One of the crucial issues , to which the creation of ad hoc agencies in the United States is a response , is the problem , at all levels but particularly at local level , of ‘ overlapping governments ’ . |
| 30 | Databases of ad hoc epidemiological studies and of the Hungarian congenital abnormality registry . |