Example sentences of "[adj] to use the term " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some writers argue that , once client status has been allocated , it is no longer appropriate to use the term prevention , since the agency response is one of treatment and rehabilitation ( Albee , 1982 ; Schinke et al . , |
| 2 | It is therefore more appropriate to use the term ‘ mixed parentage ’ instead of ‘ mixed race ’ . |
| 3 | The last use is the basis of the major work in this field , the treatment by Laver ( 1968 , 1980 ) ; if one adopts this as the meaning of ‘ voice quality ’ it is preferable to use the term ‘ phonation type ’ ( see Catford , 1964 ) for ( ii ) , and in any case I would prefer to use ‘ personal speaker characteristics ’ for ( i ) . |
| 4 | In order to clarify the two uses of ‘ positivist criminology ’ , it might be helpful to use the term ‘ biological positivist ’ to distinguish the founding fathers from the more general category . |
| 5 | Part of the consequence of this was that working-class respondents were often unwilling to use the term ‘ friend ’ , being unsure if they were using it appropriately . |
| 6 | The medical consequences of high alcohol consumption are well known but even doctors are reluctant to use the term " alcoholism " because it may be seen as a personal insult rather than as a justifiable clinical diagnosis . |
| 7 | There may however be a way of adapting it to say that the solipsist will be unable to use the term ‘ beetle ’ to communicate with his later self ( in a diary , perhaps ) , since what gives the term its meaning to him now can not be what was then in the box ( an object to which he now has no access ) but what he now thinks was in the box . |
| 8 | Some will use the first name or parental terms ( such as ‘ mother ’ , ‘ father ’ , ‘ Mum ’ , ‘ Dad ’ , etc. ) , others will adopt more formal modes of address ( 'Mr Smith' , ‘ Mrs Jones ’ ) , while many find this awkward situation eased somewhat when they themselves have children and they are able to use the term ‘ Gran ’ or some equivalent ( Firth et al. , 1969 , pp. 418–22 ) . |
| 9 | Until recently it was both convenient and accurate to use the term ‘ Western ’ to describe this asymmetry , and the idea of ‘ Western imperialism ’ was widely acknowledged as a way of analyzing the global system . |
| 10 | Mineralogy is another fairly constant sub-discipline , but it is difficult to use the term unambiguously , since there are mineralogical aspects to petrology and geochemistry . |
| 11 | It will be convenient to use the term A-measure to distinguish this computed indicator from the true area . |
| 12 | Nowadays it is common to use the term mass instead of weight . |