Example sentences of "in term [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 23 is very similar in terms to the other sections in this Part . |
| 2 | 2 That the activities of some young people , particularly adolescents , are not to be explained in terms of the ordinary , rational rule-following upon which we pride ourselves , but as springing from primitive , almost animal-like impulses and drives . |
| 3 | Having established service criteria , it is necessary to assess every individual who needs services along two dimensions : first , in terms of the ordinary needs of every citizen , and second , in terms of the special needs generated by mental disorder . |
| 4 | A modification of the proprietary theory , known as the residual equity theory , defines the company in terms of the ordinary shareholders only ; thus excluding the preference shareholders who would be considered owners under the proprietary theory . |
| 5 | But we are lucky we have great people and great people in terms of the ordinary people . |
| 6 | Against the historical unification we would stress that sex is relational , is shaped in social interaction , and can only be understood in its historical context , in terms of the cultural meanings assigned to it , and in terms of the internal , subjective meanings of the sexed individuals that emerge . |
| 7 | His only contact with its hardware may be with an interactive terminal ( if he is lucky ) , or with a series of error messages couched in terms of the internal structure of the computer ( if he is unlucky ) . |
| 8 | The swing back to scientific explanations and solutions and the re-entry of the expert into the state apparatuses , needs to be understood both in terms of the internal transformations within scientific knowledge and in the light of these broader economic and political developments . |
| 9 | The historical period of time between the two events is seen in terms of the internal experience of the individual Christian seeking assurance of God . |
| 10 | It is predicted that such developments will gain common ground in the elaboration of the GUI concept as it has in the computer-aided design world , but will quickly diversify in terms of the actual products which emerge . |
| 11 | Gans classifies the roles in terms of the actual behaviour of the researcher : |
| 12 | The Child Support Act sets out to increase the amount of maintenance paid by former partners , both in terms of the actual amounts paid by individuals and in terms of the number of people paying . |
| 13 | Newspaper , difficult one , generally , but we 're lucky in that we 've got a place down in Exmouth that shred this all up for animal bedding , and they 'll take that , and again we 'll get recycling credits , so although it 's low value in terms of the actual material , it attracts this big recycling credit so so a subsidized market , if you like . |
| 14 | in terms of the actual favourite |
| 15 | Oh you did , yeah it 's it 's er no but I mean in terms of the actual word you do n't know what it is |
| 16 | It is not possible to answer this question in terms of the technical efficiency of the device ; its inherent qualities , however admirable in principle , were directly affected by economic factors . |
| 17 | Okay erm in terms of the technical erm way it works erm the O Omni SQL Gateway does go through the Open Server for Kix at the moment and I think John could probably comment on the I B M relationship . |
| 18 | By the 1980s a certain amount of international agreement had developed , suggesting that a country 's spending on research should be justified in primarily economic terms — in terms of the technical innovations which research could deliver to the economy . |
| 19 | For a number of years we have been trying to upgrade the quality of our business , in terms of the technical content of products , the level of design we build in and the price we charge . |
| 20 | American economic activity in the international arena ( or American economic imperialism , as it was increasingly being labelled ) began to be identified as a problem in urgent need of resolution , and to be conceptualised in terms of the multinational or transnational corporation . |
| 21 | This can be explained , I think , in terms of the former Chewong status of these beings . |
| 22 | ( Alternatively we could distinguish between two forms of justification , justification before the event and justification after it , and run the tripartite definition in terms of the former ; but then the question would be whether these really are two forms of the same thing . ) |
| 23 | They coined the phrase " ecological debt " to describe the relationship between the North and South in terms of the former 's excessive use of global resources . |
| 24 | Now in some respects what I think should happen , is we should , yeah we should not be negative about going on the course , but in terms of the financial implications I 'm very worried about that and I think there is a erm , there is some need for the client to say , that if he wants us to go on this course we 're happy to go on it , but that he should look seriously at financing and he plus it should have been in the tender document . |
| 25 | The idea behind this latest Spalding missile is that , because it spins less , it is more forgiving in terms of the higher handicapper 's hook or slice which is also , of course , part of the appeal of the metal wood . |
| 26 | and indeed in terms of the low figure of of of thirty one thousand it it 's statistically conceivable that no local needs would be met . |
| 27 | Much has been written about the subject in terms of the various packages , both actually available and merely promised , but remarkably little has been conveyed about their actual usefulness for the businessman . |
| 28 | Thus , despite its ultimate rejection of the playful linguistic transgressions so characteristic of Brooke-Rose 's later fiction , her first novel inaugurates the underlying discursive vision of her entire oeuvre : intellect and psyche are understood in terms of the various conceptual ‘ languages ’ that pertain to them , and personal identity is established as a product of their interaction . |
| 29 | Let us unpack these propositions in terms of the various fields and then scrutinize their implications . |
| 30 | The range of newspapers read by the bulk of the British electorate has narrowed sharply over the last two decades — in terms of the political partisanship of mass-selling papers , if not in terms of the proliferation of low-circulation titles ( Newton , 1988a , p. 320 ; Tunstall , 1983 , p. 12 ) . |