Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] terms [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If we are to speak meaningfully in terms of membership it is probably better to define it in terms of communicant or active membership .
2 So if we 're talking about something talking about something taking a light year to reach us in terms of light , any possibility of human contact we 're talking about millions of years , probably , rather than a few years .
3 The correct way to think about [ 4 ] is to interpret it in terms of energy transfers .
4 To recognize a rule as a rule is not to recognize it in terms of approval or disapproval .
5 Perhaps er er another way of looking at this would be to see it in terms of rightist deviations and leftist deviations and one might see erm the er the moderate policies er of thirty seven to forty nine i in a sense as being erm a rightist deviation , one might see forty six forty seven as being leftist deviations and the left is seeking to overcome rightist deviations , the right seeking to overcome leftist deviations and you 've got some kind of oscillation between the two .
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