Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] term " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legislative power is vested in a unicameral National Assembly which sits for a five-year term and consists of six appointed senators and 15 popularly elected representatives . |
| 2 | What does ego mean as a technical term in Freud 's second model of the mind ? |
| 3 | International marketing is treated as a generic term covering the distinctions made in describing marketing activities as ‘ international ’ or ‘ multinational ’ or ‘ global ’ . |
| 4 | Tennant succeeds Lord Carrington who is due to retire after a five-year term as Chairman of Christie 's International next May . |
| 5 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 6 | And this states erm that Its effectiveness erm must be must be considered as a long term rather than a short term objective . |
| 7 | Also Haddock has had to quit and Sterland looks like a long term crock . |
| 8 | Also Haddock has had to quit and Sterland looks like a long term crock . |
| 9 | Although it is often presented as a scientific term , relating to features of urban development , its use is better understood as part of an ideological set which has been borrowed from the United States . |
| 10 | Says Phil Keer : ‘ I think me and most of my friends are looking for a long term relationship . |
| 11 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 12 | If the draftsman wishes to create a lease for a period that can not be made certain at the time of the demise the only way is to express it as being granted for a fixed term subject to a power to break at the expiry of the period . |
| 13 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 14 | The bold 300 were ordered ‘ up the line ’ , which is here applied as a military term as this was well in advance of the creation of the Glasgow Underground … they marched ‘ up the line ’ to the old bridge at Kelvinbridge . |
| 15 | For while " Socrates " might on occasion be deliberately turned into a general term — as happens , for example , in sentences like " He is another Socrates " — substance " can not be significantly used in such a way at all . |
| 16 | Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s. 1B(5) provides that if a sentence of detention in a young offender institution is passed on a juvenile which results in a total term of detention exceeding 12 months ' , any excess over 12 months ' is remitted and the sentence takes effect as a term of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution . |
| 17 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 18 | During May Lin had been sentenced to a 22-month term in prison for his involvement in a 1989 peaceful political protest . |
| 19 | Any spreadsheet should be able to calculate the present value of payments made over a fixed term . |
| 20 | For the past five years the scheme 's costs have been met on a limited term basis through special funding by the Government and then by joint agency funding . |
| 21 | First , ‘ neutrino ’ can be used as a general term describing both the particle and its antiparticle counterpart , in a general discussion ; secondly , when Wolfgang Pauli coined the name to describe a then hypothetical particle in the 1930s , he used ‘ -neutrino ’ as the name for the decay product . |
| 22 | ‘ Hawk ’ is often used as a general term for smaller birds of prey , as well as more strictly for the genus Accipiter . |
| 23 | The enangan had no subsequent special rights either in the girl or in her future children though her children addressed him by a title used as a respectful term for " Father " among some neighbouring groups . |
| 24 | The term unoccupied is used as a residual term by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys to describe people for whom an occupation can not be stated . |
| 25 | The term KBS is often used as a generic term for the type of AI system classified as expert . |
| 26 | Another source of ambiguity is that task analysis is often used as a generic term covering any study and description relating to people at work . |
| 27 | Often used as a generic term for all activities yielding evidence relevant to course quality . |
| 28 | In the discussion which follows , " exclusion clauses " is used as a generic term to describe all the various types of clause described in Chapter 5 , unless the contrary appears . |
| 29 | Thus it is an infringement of logical grammar to use phrases such as " the same substance " , for the word " substance " ( in the context of Spinoza 's theory ) has the status similar to that of a proper name and hence strictly can not be employed as a general term . |
| 30 | A former senior driving examiner with the Ministry of Transport , Bob Cowe , has been employed on a fixed term contract to teach defensive driving techniques to Inroads drivers . |