Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the persecutions those who had most to lose in terms of this world 's goods were the rich Christians , whose property was liable to confiscation unless they ‘ apostatized ’ . |
| 2 | Whisk egg whites in a clean bowl until stiff enough to stand in peaks . |
| 3 | Of course , from the local point of view it was logical enough to deal in terms of the individuals involved because that is how the system may appear to work , at least to an uninformed observer , and no doubt the question of personality is an important one . |
| 4 | Because they choose their words too carefully , jealously control their meanings , and if they 're sussed enough to believe in ambiguities and contradictions you can be sure each one is carefully mounted in position for you , the listener . |
| 5 | It can not be useful to talk about population growth ( Nature 362 , 379 ; 1993 ) as a ‘ threat to the global commons ’ that may need to be ‘ dealt with by coercion ’ before it becomes bothersome to ‘ the rest of us ’ , which I assume means those of us lucky enough to live in countries where contraceptives are readily available . |
| 6 | Not admittedly as much as the argument about whether you can see Schiehallion or not , but certainly enough to end in tears . |
| 7 | The development of republican publishing industries , for instance , had helped to bring into being a group of local writers and journalists who tended naturally to operate in terms of the idiom with which both they and their readers were most familiar . |
| 8 | This episode reveals a flexibility of social structure that was thought only to occur in humans . |
| 9 | The Humbug ( Dascyllus aruanus ) is a good example and although not achieving the tactile relationship of the clowns , is usually found shoaling close to the anemone 's tentacles , darting away to hide in crevices around the anemone when approached . |
| 10 | In particular , in this type of assessment it is important not just to think in terms of incremental cash flows above those currently being received , but also to bear in mind what the problems will be if no investment is undertaken . |
| 11 | No , Minter was motivated more by the unreasoning malice which individual achievement seemed often to inspire in others . |
| 12 | Davidson ( 1975 ) would even maintain that this requires that they have mastery of a language ; that it is wrong even to think in terms of quasi-beliefs or proto-beliefs when trying to explain even quite complex behaviour of languageless creatures . |
| 13 | Ought we not rather to think in terms of partially intersecting views of context ? |
| 14 | They have to , because years of pillaging have made sizeable fish from the shore hard to find in places like France , Belgium and Holland . |
| 15 | God 's Gift Mine , it was recognised , lay conveniently near to the Brigham smelters enabling ore deliveries to be maintained throughout the winter months whereas the other ores " further distant , can not be brought to the said smelting house , but in the sumer only … you may therefore consider how farr forth those Mynes soe farr distant may bee sett upon with good strength in sumer and what number of kibbles will weekly be gotten and towards winter when that will faile , to drive those pickmen from there to work in Gods gift , if the winter shall not hinder untill we may be furnished either out of Germainie or our own Nation with a sufficient number of pickmen to man all the works thoroughly & withall to consider whether the Myne of Gods Gift be not so plentifull as some other new Stolnes ( G. Stollen — tunnel , adit etc. ) or head ( possibly a forerunner of our word " heading " ) may be driven thereby to gitt the like weekly pportion ( proportion ) as hath formerly been gotten there . " |
| 16 | What is more , people who move to the other side of the world can continue to vote for the Labour Party in UK elections : recent Tory legislation allows people living abroad to vote in elections back home . |
| 17 | Perhaps it 's because Switzerland is the most boring country in the world , and once you 've learned to play the Alpine horn there 's precious little else to do in terms of entertainment . |
| 18 | Public debate about rural housing policy has , however , preferred not to acknowledge such social control implications and preferred instead to deal in terms of houses rather than their inhabitants . |
| 19 | He had continued instead to think in terms of a united Christendom organized into national churches , ‘ compacted and united together to make and constitute but one Catholic Church or body ’ . |
| 20 | For the French , who had to go inland to trade in furs at all , pushing on to the west was a matter of development by easy stages . |