Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] term of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literature of Scottish geology , however , whilst it has grown in terms of numbers of papers , has not resulted in any increase in the numbers of journals devoted to it ( except for the Scottish Journal of Geology ) , but has grown by taking up more space in existing journals , and by expanding into areas covered by new , multidisciplinary journals , such as Precambrian Research , Chemical Geology , Tectonophysics , and similar publications . |
| 2 | The literature of Scottish geology , however , whilst it has grown in terms of numbers of papers , has not resulted in any increase in the numbers of journals devoted to it ( except for the Scottish Journal of Geology ) , but has grown by taking up more space in existing journals , and by expanding into areas covered by new , multidisciplinary journals , such as Precambrian Research , Chemical Geology , Tectonophysics , and similar publications . |
| 3 | The workload of senior managers has broadened in terms of organisation , administration and business development . |
| 4 | Iran has consistently produced more than its quota , securing exports by discounting below the OPEC release price and though it has benefited in terms of revenues in the short term , has certainly been partly instrumental in weakening the cartel . |
| 5 | As the organization has expanded , the demand for manpower related information has increased in terms of volume , range and depth . |
| 6 | Notwithstanding this debate , what precisely has happened in terms of environmental change in the Sahel in the last two to three decades ? |
| 7 | As we have seen , it is relatively straightforward to explain how the penal crisis has arisen in terms of the contributions made by the different courts involved . |
| 8 | What Chris Bonington has achieved in terms of single-minded organisation and drive , or what Reinhold Messner has demonstrated by his speed and panache , have been matched by Doug Scott 's determination always to try for something different and never to be satisfied by the more obvious and easier routes to success . |
| 9 | The aid programme , as it has developed over the last thirty years , has failed in terms of its original objective , i.e. the promotion of a pattern of economic growth in which the injection of external finance on soft terms was no longer necessary . |
| 10 | Erm but if you translate that into er er into days it 's quite a substantial amount and er erm again in our plan we 'd thought in terms of a complete MOS design er where the input would be probably more on the checking side , than actual on the , actually on the supervision . |
| 11 | what this a doctor in this policy would have done in terms of delaying diagnosis in the lower risk group patients because clearly the other groups of patients are actually having more cystoscopies performed , but because it 's a retrospective analysis you can not say that you are advancing the diagnosis of er of more frequently occurring tumours . |
| 12 | I do not doubt that people in an earlier age may well have thought in terms of the kind of cosmic world picture in terms of which she herself thinks . |
| 13 | I mean I er er I mean I just do n't know how you , you begin and end with this actually I mean I really do n't and I mean I think quite frankly if Hydro Electric were to go out and say okay , we will fund the purchase of twenty houses four bedrooms each for the homeless right I would have thought in terms of doing something I mean I walk round Princes Street and I see those poor sods and I say to myself |
| 14 | Other passages were to be judged mistaken in terms of this criterion . |
| 15 | They will initially interpret a rise in the demand for and price of their product as a rise in its relative price and as implying a fall in the real wage rate they must pay measured in terms of their product . |
| 16 | So anything that a landlord or a rich peasant had owned in terms of industry or commerce would be left alone and i it would still be his . |
| 17 | There is as yet no shift in the overall direction of the group , which remains dominated in terms of political action by its monopoly catholic and nationalist constituencies . |
| 18 | Well what have you what have you done in term Have you got some you 've done in terms of differentiating and then integrating back ? |
| 19 | Racism becomes defined in terms of features which are specific to the black ( or Afro-Caribbean ) experience , for example , or to the peculiarities of English history , so that anti-semitism , or the specific articulations of racism which have developed in , say , the Irish or Scottish contexts , or in other European countries , are treated as ‘ special cases ’ , because their inclusion would ‘ deconstruct ’ the ideal type . |
| 20 | Teachers who for years had planned in terms of appropriate actions could not overnight apply their minds to appropriate meanings as well . |
| 21 | Can I just confirm with you Mr , that what I 've described in terms of geographical location , is getting somewhere near to meeting his objective . |
| 22 | I think we also need to recognise that there has also been a er , high level of er , commitment from er , officers employed by this council to achieving the changes that we have asked in terms of financial management , now I 'm not going to pretend for a moment that er , we 've gone all the way there yet . |
| 23 | It has n't been an easy time , even for the professions , and while law firms have had to cut back on staffing , they face having to get more out of the personnel they have left in terms of client service . |
| 24 | Mr Yates said : ‘ It is the biggest event we have handled in terms of prestige . |
| 25 | Rob said : ‘ It is the biggest event we have handled in terms of prestige . |
| 26 | In addition to all the differences which I have itemized in terms of age structure , family formation and lengths of generations , we should note also that the British population in the past was less racially and ethnically diverse , being almost exclusively white . |