Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] terms [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is most demanding in terms of irrelevant information — the information I think is irrelevant , all the extras — bits and pieces … |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | The political historian , raised from the cradle to insist on the importance of chronology and context , would rather think in terms of intellectual biography . |
| 4 | Differences in strike commitment are liable to be more effectively explained in terms of such variables as the culture of each coalfield , traditional loyalties to the area or national levels of the union and the type of lead given by branch and area officials at the outset of the dispute . |
| 5 | The widespread influence of Ribble , Bowlby and Spitz , although it was supported by new , more permissive baby books such as Benjamin Spock 's Baby and Child Care ( 1946 ) , can not be entirely explained in terms of parents ' reaction against the rigours of aseptic mothercraft . |
| 6 | It is a cardinal error , and one to which intellectual historians are especially prone , to suppose that people can only think in terms of one set of assumptions . |
| 7 | In Cambridge , J. M. Winter of Pembroke College , argued that infant mortality data were better explained in terms of long run socioeconomic changes than short-term fluctuations . |
| 8 | There is , however , powerful ethnographic evidence to challenge this explanation and to suggest that the ‘ institutionalised greater respect ’ for written language in England can be better explained in terms of political and ideological practices in the real history of that country . |
| 9 | But they are also extremely limited in terms of our particular interests . |
| 10 | He claims that professionals make important contributions to the functional well-being of society and in addition , their services are highly regarded in terms of society 's values . |
| 11 | Both of us need a few moments alone to come to terms with things . |
| 12 | Size of establishment and type of authority were again associated with the presence of this potential resource so that the authorities who were less advantaged in terms of their own resources were also less likely to have a strong centre of training expertise to turn to . |
| 13 | Some of the subjects like science and history have attempted to be positive in the curriculum content so that the children attain the targets for the subjects , but also become better educated in terms of quality issues . |
| 14 | There are elements of a vicious version of the hermeneutic circle involved : people do n't like poetry because they have n't read enough to come to terms with it , and they have n't read enough because they do n't like it . |
| 15 | By this time Steven was old enough to come to terms with the divorce , but Matthew still found it difficult . |
| 16 | But now , nearly thirty years later , when he thought he had long come to terms with the deed and his own reaction to it , memory had begun to stir again . |
| 17 | They do n't necessarily contribute in terms of the creative ideas . |
| 18 | A piece of equipment can be highly regulated in terms of one use , while a similar piece of equipment is unregulated for another use . |
| 19 | He was potentially a useful ally and one with whom Edward needed to keep on good terms , if only because of his claim to the French throne ; but he proved unreliable and the expedition to Normandy was aborted when he suddenly came to terms with John II . |
| 20 | This should make life a little easier for the prosecutor , but let's not forget that the prosecutor only deals in terms of the crimes , with violence that has occurred , and the violence that has occurred is of course something which has gone wrong in society . |
| 21 | The same arguments are endlessly rehearsed in terms of the Government 's determination to continue to set its face against the social chapter of the Maastricht agreement already accepted by all its European partners . |
| 22 | His role only exists in terms of the other roles in the game . |
| 23 | Increasingly , they are also likely to be interested in the budgeted cost of the purchase , and the return they obtain from it ( perhaps measured in terms of payback or discounted cash flow ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Jesus who Himself spoke of ‘ the creation ’ could also have rightly spoken in terms of ‘ my creation ’ for as the apostle Paul wrote ‘ by Him were all things CREATED that are in heaven ( was there evolution in heaven ? ) and that are in earth … all things were CREATED by Him and for Him . ’ |
| 26 | This divergence was especially marked in terms of unemployment . |
| 27 | Essentially , these three names mean the same thing — ‘ a piece of software ’ — and only differ in terms of size and complexity . |
| 28 | Yet rather than forming a point between structure and agency , perhaps the role of community groups could be better represented in terms of a continuum between civil society and the state . |
| 29 | Continuity and discontinuity are similarly measured and interpreted as essentially cultural phenomena and so discussed in terms of ‘ acculturation ’ . |
| 30 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |