Example sentences of "term of [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | has always involved himself with the community and it was during his first term of office here that one of our cherished hopes came to fruition , a community centre for , called The Village Hall . |
| 2 | Twenty-one years A lease for a term of years less than twenty-one is not registrable at HM Land Registry ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s8 ) . |
| 3 | The holistic approach of phrenology taught them to look at the body-mind dichotomy and to think in terms of prevention rather than quick cures that were often spurious . |
| 4 | Public debate about rural housing policy has , however , preferred not to acknowledge such social control implications and preferred instead to deal in terms of houses rather than their inhabitants . |
| 5 | If , instead , we chose to express the fair share price formula in terms of earnings rather than dividends , we would get ( using the second line of ( 6.22 ) , ( 6.27 ) and ( 6.31 ) ) . |
| 6 | When the political institutions of colonial dependencies are described as interacting with their environments , the ‘ environment ’ tends to be described in terms of culture rather than class . |
| 7 | High adventure drew from Dickson McCunn a latent heroism : Thomas Carlyle Craw had buried his sense and courage far more deeply but they are at least glimpsed at the end of an adventure story which interprets the concept of honour in terms of individual rather than of chivalric motives . |
| 8 | Where standards are qualitative rather than quantitative , it is preferable for them to be expressed in terms of end-results rather than of methods . |
| 9 | In fact , his comments seemingly invite the charge , for he describes the lack of black guardsmen in terms of feelings rather than in terms of the discourse of external factuality : ‘ People do not want to see a black face under a bearskin . ’ |
| 10 | However , whilst it is easy to criticize teachers for failing to embark on a thorough and methodical appraisal of their practice it should be remembered that the LEA scheme was introduced to them initially very much in terms of accountability rather than professional development , and for this reason some caution over what to reveal in the self-appraisal document is understandable . |
| 11 | It does not , however , follow from the fact that some departures from the terms of union have occurred that Parliament is free to ignore all the terms of union unilaterally and by ordinary process . |
| 12 | Thus , systems theory is essentially teleological — explanations are in terms of consequences rather than causes . |
| 13 | Culyer ( 1973 ) suggested a possible compromise in order to allocate all inputs ; that is , to allocate in terms of activities rather than in terms of the end product of those activities . |
| 14 | He identifies eight role types which refer to the potential contribution in terms of behaviour rather than knowledge or status . |
| 15 | This was the point of explaining cars in terms of carburettors rather than quarks . |
| 16 | A lexical relation defined in terms of expectation rather than necessity will be called a para-relation . |
| 17 | Inglis argued that his result supported an interpretation of the usual right ear effect in terms of memory rather than sensory competition . |
| 18 | Questions about perceptions were framed in terms of awareness rather than approval , though the partisan nature of the answers often betrayed a lack of objectivity . |
| 19 | The large numbers who are unable to find regular work are not seen as a phenomenon characteristic of underdevelopment , but part of the capitalist division of labour and , therefore , a similar feature to the industrialisation process of European countries , differing in terms of quantity rather than quality . |
| 20 | For a number of years I have done my best to present the ordination of women in the Anglican Communion to Orthodoxy and to Rome in terms of development rather than revolution . |
| 21 | Er similarly in I' think it 's Japanese you find that men and women use different for certain things , er not because not because of terms of style just because they are the correct words to use if you are a man or if you are a women . |
| 22 | The teacher servicing this kind of classroom has also been a generalist , seeing his/her task in terms of need-meeting rather than simple goal setting . |
| 23 | Scientists , they argue , have interests in defining normality and deviance , health and disease , in terms of genetics rather than social or environmental conditions . |
| 24 | Now do n't think in terms of presentations just as standing up in front of an audience . |
| 25 | In order to support this position , one has to accept : ( i ) that the intention — recklessness distinction is the most significant dividing line for serious injuries , more relevant than factors such as premeditation or provocation ; ( ii ) that this is a workable distinction for the courts , especially in impulsive crimes , where the definition of intention may be fulfilled by a momentary realization of what is happening ; ( iii ) that it is so significant that a difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment is appropriate ; and ( iv ) that there is not a strong case for phrasing the offences in terms of endangerment rather than of causing physical harm . |
| 26 | One of the more obvious characteristics of partnerships has been that educational partners are generally the poor relation — at least they usually behave as if they are — probably because partnerships are measured essentially in terms of cash rather than other kinds of resource such as accommodation , talent , expertise , knowledge and creativity . |
| 27 | Poverty should then perhaps best be seen more realistically in terms of relative rather than absolute deprivation . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , for some non-oil LDCs such reserves can be measured in terms of weeks rather than months . |
| 29 | However , the question in the way it is posed by educators usually calls for an answer in terms of commitment rather than of attitude in school or in society and the implementation has begun by the time the thought of research arises . |
| 30 | Gardiner , where the judge was careful to speak in terms of justification rather than insist that a belief be both honest and reasonable . |