Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] terms " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lifted her dark head high , determined to meet him on equal terms . |
| 2 | Rising stars like Phil Tufnell , Chris Lewis and Graeme Hick have never shared a dressing room with him purely as a team-mate , getting to know him on equal terms . |
| 3 | This group were aware of the injury and described it in neutral terms of sensation . |
| 4 | The two men knew that the USSR had matched them in nuclear terms , believed that the Soviets could help to extricate America from the ‘ unwinnable ’ Vietnam war , and hoped to deal with Russia on rational , balance-of-power terms instead of the ideological rivalry of the past . |
| 5 | Processing the data and analysing the results Having collected all the completed questionnaires or interview schedules , it is time to process the data , putting answers into categories , adding up totals , and generally finding out the pattern of the responses and expressing them in statistical terms . |
| 6 | She had a little flat in the Falls , a house she shared with girlfriends , her family home being in a village outside Derry , and she told him in blunt terms that she had n't seen enough of him at it for too damn long , at it or anywhere else . |
| 7 | He started accusing everyone from Sam Gristy to Jan Treffry himself of meddling with his fish barrels , and insisted on one of Sam 's barrels being opened as well ; but when it was found to be brim full Martha told him in plain terms that as far as she was concerned , he had lost the contest . |
| 8 | Golden Friend also meets him on equal terms today . |
| 9 | Golden Friend also meets him on equal terms today . |
| 10 | A Northumberland vet , Colin Barwise-Munro , put it in explicit terms when he said : ‘ In 1921 , the incidence of dystocia or difficult calvings in the European herd was reckoned in one survey to be no more than 3 per cent . |
| 11 | Er , the recommendation to those committees was that they should treat the paper as a basis for consultation , it was on that basis that they approved it , it was my impression that they support it in general terms . |
| 12 | We let it for short terms to captains and such like . ’ |
| 13 | Brook has not simply plonked the cameras in front of his original production : he has re-conceived it in filmic terms , making obvious concessions to cinematic literalism while retaining the sense of wonder . |
| 14 | As my deliberate intention in these lectures is to remind you of theology and introduce you to theological terms , however , let me do so now . |
| 15 | But if Josephus used Nicolas of Damascus , he reinterpreted him in Jewish terms . |
| 16 | It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households . |
| 17 | However , we can understand it in similar terms if we numerically ( as opposed to analytically ) compute return maps on a suitable plane . |
| 18 | Er , let me say also , of course , some bosses , you know , are , are , are sad souls , they need a little bit more of a jolt , at which point you have to put it in monetary terms . |
| 19 | There 's a sense to which , to put it in current terms |
| 20 | There 's a sense in which , to put it in current terms , |
| 21 | To put it in simple terms , hard disk performance has failed to keep up with the massive increases in processor speeds — you need a disk cache of some description , so we might as well start with the one you get for free . |
| 22 | To put it in basic terms , Leonora , you 're no longer merely a patient in my eyes . |
| 23 | Particularly with insects , whose chitinous exoskeletons make it difficult to consider them in anthropomorphic terms , how are we to discover the extent to which they might be acting intelligently ? |
| 24 | I do n't know why Barny chose to eat his own chicks , but I must n't judge him in human terms . |
| 25 | In fact , managers could take it in non-pecuniary terms — in the ( 1963 ) Williamsonian manner . |
| 26 | To convert national income into real output per capita , it is necessary to make two adjustments : ( i ) national income must be deflated by an appropriate price index to convert it to real terms ; ( ii ) the figure must then be divided by the population to convert it to per capita terms . |
| 27 | They are interested in doing it in certain terms . |
| 28 | The Mayor rebuked him in warm terms , whereupon the elegant creature said , hotly : ‘ Who are you to talk to me like that ? ’ |
| 29 | What does this tell us in practical terms ? |
| 30 | Churchmen justified it in Augustinian terms . |