Example sentences of "terms [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is not , he says , one who ‘ detracts from the existence or reality of things ’ ; and anyone who thinks otherwise ‘ is very far from understanding what hath been premised in the plainest terms I could think of ’ . |
| 2 | If you can not use the terms I have offered you , the choice of another is up to you . |
| 3 | After five terms I moved into Surrey to become head of the history department in Wallington County Grammar School for Boys and to work away for five years at doing what grammar schools were most proud of : helping boys to win awards at Oxford or Cambridge , urging ever-growing numbers of them successfully through public examinations , encouraging that sense of discipline and order which characterized the traditional Public and grammar school , wearing a gown , sustaining the prefect system . |
| 4 | I also want to address two more complex issues in textual and sexual theory : firstly , the political implications of poststructuralist attempts to discredit notions of authorial agency ; and secondly , the related debates in gay theory around what have come to be known as the poles of ‘ essentialism ’ and ‘ social constructionism ’ ( terms I will elaborate on later ) . |
| 5 | But my place is here , to gain the best terms I can for this unhappy town . |
| 6 | This in itself is odd because in previous terms I had often ( though not regularly ) described meals in detail . |
| 7 | Quite what this means in engineering terms I do n't know , but as far as the knitter is concerned , it means that if you buy the fine gauge lace carriage separately from your machine , the machine and carriage will probably have to be sent away to be tuned . |
| 8 | And er those are the terms I 'm thinking . |
| 9 | If the terms I have offered are not sufficient , I will augment them to two thirds of my estate . |
| 10 | I have a feeling an attempt was being made to convey a sort of message — this in practical terms I duly received . |
| 11 | I 'm a nobody — in material terms I possess next to nothing of any monetary value . |
| 12 | In English terms I would say that the property that Russell left is worth about ninety to a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 13 | I have made it clear to the Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , the hon. Member for Wiltshire , North ( Mr. Needham ) , that in general terms I have every sympathy with the people in the Housing Executive and the Department of Health 's occupational therapy department whom , in effect , I shall be criticising . |
| 14 | I think , I think that in any , I mean in , in , in , if you wan na , if you wan na look at it in terms I mean I think labour it it 's always gon na have to be there and I think the biological constraints put the you know , sharpened device |
| 15 | Even with the exceptions policy there 's still consideration of the the impact of that development and whether it would be acceptable or not and would be treated in in those terms I 'm sure by the districts . |
| 16 | in specific terms I ca n't remember , I would have certainly of said that for the year er nineteen eighty eight we should build into our budget an amount , what that amount was I ca n't remember , but er that was , that was never given the go ahead |
| 17 | And these you should remember are basically the terms I gave on the previous page . |
| 18 | But if you think about it in contemporary terms I I was giving a lecture in London er a couple of weeks ago erm on the subject of erm America 's changing foreign policy under Clinton if you just think about foreign policy making and who makes it , and questions of consistency and you think about some of the crises that are going on in the world from Bosnia and so on what does the constitution tell us ? |
| 19 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
| 20 | So er when schemes by the good service of actuaries can be re-written in such extreme terms I begin to worry about it and I think it needs an input for more than one direction on the actuarial fund in our case the trustees saw fit not to use actuaries to get away |
| 21 | Erm in planning terms I five , that 's where all these last two days string together , I five does not enable this kind of inward investment to come . |
| 22 | While Hamnett may be seen as the campaigning Bob Geldof of fashion , in design terms she is more the Tony Blackburn , making a living , like him , out of replaying Golden Oldies . |
| 23 | She is incomparable and in business terms she is perfect . |
| 24 | Nina had her hand in the other girl 's handbag , and was begging her for money in exactly the same terms she had used on him while begging for heroin . |
| 25 | Deirdre Bair did not have access to these letters at the time of writing , though the euphemistic terms she uses to describe de Beauvoir 's relationships anticipate this recent confirmation . |
| 26 | But in Jung 's terms she was an intuitive-feeling type . |
| 27 | In strict cash terms she is paying a higher rate on her mortgage than her savings are earning . |
| 28 | She managed throughout the following years to maintain a front of firmness and dignity , earning the respect of the Germans and at the same time extracting the best terms she could for Sark and its people , with whom she shared the hunger and other privations of occupation , the anxieties engendered by two unsuccessful British commando raids , and the pain of separation when many islanders , including her husband , were deported to German prison camps . |
| 29 | These are some of the terms you 'll come across when you 're dealing with SSP : |
| 30 | This is very important because once you start to perceive yourself in negative terms you will probably start to act in a negative way , being quarrelsome and finally looking to food for comfort . |