Example sentences of "it be [prep] [adj] term " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was obvious that Austria-Hungary would not allow the Russians to invade Bulgaria ; a year before she had disliked the possibility of a united and strengthened Bulgaria , even if it were on bad terms with Russia , and the prospect of one under Russia 's thumb was even worse . |
| 2 | It is in these terms that we find sodomy lurking in the cultural histories of the deviants in early modern England , and in a way which throws light on the persistence today of the connection between political and sexual subversion , and the condensation/displacement of social crisis into sexuality . |
| 3 | It is in these terms that the ideas and activity of the revolutionary wing of the intelligentsia have to be understood . |
| 4 | It is in these terms that an attack is often mounted on the whole idea of synonymy . |
| 5 | This view depends , of course , on seeing the reader , not as a unique individual , a private being , but as a vessel or meeting point for a variety of cultural codes and literary conventions , and it is in these terms and not those of affective experience that reading and readers would have to be discussed : the reader qua reader is as much the product of a ‘ grammar ’ ( however loosely this notion may now be conceived ) as was the text in classical structuralism . |
| 6 | Friends of the Earth proposes a dozen green taxes , three of which would directly affect the motorist , It calls for abolition of road tax , but for the price of petrol to be raised to what it was in real terms in 1975 . |
| 7 | It may seem odd to begin a description of Roland Michell with an excursus into the complicated relations of Blackadder , Cropper and Ash , but it was in these terms that Roland most frequently thought of himself . |