Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] terms [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Indeed , the Married Man 's Tax Allowance has recently been re-confirmed despite strong criticism of it ( for example , Equal Opportunities Commission , 1982b ) : in the March 1984 budget the allowance went up so that in real terms it is now higher than at any time since the war ( Financial Times , 14 March 1984 ) . |
| 3 | I think it is fair to say that in practical terms you are likely to get substantial life out of the tool before the original battery is spent , perhaps several years . |
| 4 | Its powers , however , do include a measure of budgetary control and the Commission is responsible to it and can , in the final analysis , be dismissed by it , so that in political terms it enjoys a potential influence of considerable substance which , however , it has not yet fully developed . |
| 5 | That side has improved and in real terms we have n't had to spend much in the past two or three years . |
| 6 | And in general terms they 're something of the order of twenty five and a half thousand swellings committed to development in the county , together with three and a half thousand erm in in in draft local plans . |
| 7 | To a certain extent this made economic and political sense : in economic terms it is where the council had most leverage and control , and in political terms it represented a move to a new base , one built on the strength of the white-collar and public sector unions in the changing economy and society of Sheffield . |
| 8 | This is one 's situation in an airplane , for instance , and in linguistic terms it is a state of verbal anarchy , the condition under which languages ‘ fraternize ’ . |
| 9 | Reich 's use of ethnographic evidence is suspect , but in general terms it could be admitted that there could in Freudian theory be differences of the type which Reich pointed out , even if his evidence may not have been carefully formulated . |
| 10 | Now , there are good reasons why we might want to do that , but in economic terms you 'll reduce the net welfare of the economy , or the world simply because you 're diverting resources away from efficient modes of production into inefficient modes of production . |
| 11 | That may be half of what Darren paid for it , but in absolute terms it 's incredibly low depreciation over 40,000 and adds up to an excellent value motoring package . |
| 12 | New and expanded towns experienced the highest rates of population growth in the 1950s and 1960s , but in absolute terms it was the medium-sized cities , like Bristol , Leicester , and Southampton , which made the biggest contribution to overall population increase . |
| 13 | Once again , post-war performance was significantly above the level for the interwar years , but in international terms it was substantially below par . |
| 14 | Erm you 've got this , this business of threatening to attack the Serbian guns erm involves of course the decisions of individual governments whether or not they 're prepared to allow their forces to be involved , in the case of the British whether you 're going to allow your forces to get involved in it or not , but in international terms it involves both NATO , which has now passed a resolution saying unless certain conditions are met by a certain time , then there will be bombing of the Serbian positions but the people on the ground , whether they originally came from France or the Ukraine or from Britain , are in fact under the blue beret of the United Nations and the United Nations and NATO are not altogether , they 're not precisely together on this issue . |
| 15 | They do not have the ego-satisfaction of having thought up a brand new idea but in practical terms they do well ; The pioneer has developed the field and born the development costs . |
| 16 | The Dispersionists talked of it being an answer — ‘ the only guarantee of a future for our children ’ — but in practical terms it did nothing to solve the problem of over-population that was supposedly its raison d'etre . |
| 17 | In commercial terms that 's like committing suicide but in artistic terms it 's been much more fulfilling . ’ |
| 18 | But in footballing terms it was move that had to be made . |
| 19 | Traditionalist to the core , the Legion fully encouraged the romanticism of escape from ‘ real life ’ and forgetting , because in practical terms it gave them that much more control over their members . |
| 20 | This in itself is odd because in previous terms I had often ( though not regularly ) described meals in detail . |
| 21 | According to the OECD 's 1990 report Development Co-operation , net financial flows to the developing world increased by 3 per cent to US$110,000 million in 1989 , though in real terms they were still little more than half the level at the start of the 1980s . |
| 22 | It 's well worth the slightly longer walk as in Greek terms it really is quite comfortable and is part of a complex of hotels based around the lovely Atlantis complex . |