Example sentences of "term of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some organisations do not see culture shock as a threat to the completion of a term of work abroad . |
| 2 | As used elsewhere , it is now a term of law not politics . |
| 3 | Between them Stavrogin and Dasha Shatov , Shatov 's sister , the girl to whom the letter is addressed , have conjured the word ‘ nurse ’ which is a term of art as metaphysical as anything in Notes from Underground and impossible to match in the other post-Siberian novels . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The idea that energy had a quantum nature married neatly enough with the view that light was a wave motion , but at the same time it set people thinking in terms of particles once more . |
| 7 | The hierarchical reductionist , on the other hand , explains a complex entity at any particular level in the hierarchy of organization , in terms of entities only one level down the hierarchy ; entities which , themselves , are likely to be complex enough to need further reducing to their own component parts ; and so on . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In terms of funding however policies are not equally weighted . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | terms of leases i.e. length , rental per annum , rent reviews and uniform business rate |
| 12 | A spokeswoman for Equity said that management and the dancers will discuss pay and terms of contract later this week . |
| 13 | 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 ) ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the history of English parliaments it was a decisive encounter , although in terms of Sussex where commoners rather than knights or lords died it may well have been one of the familiar disasters around which ordinary life had to continue . |
| 17 | Other countries such as America allow papers to have a political leaning in terms of editorials etcetera . |
| 18 | It is costly in terms of time and sometimes in terms of pride too . |
| 19 | He says what might appear to be a bargain in terms of price quite often is n't in terms of quality . |
| 20 | In terms of ideology also , the Conservatives are well placed . |
| 21 | Erm , in terms of communication up an organisation if that does n't sound to rude but erm okay , from the bottom of the organisation to the top of the organisation , there 's a hell of a lot less of it , okay ? |
| 22 | Where standards are qualitative rather than quantitative , it is preferable for them to be expressed in terms of end-results rather than of methods . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | The terms of reference frequently require the court to have regard to the public interest or the national interest or the national economy or considerations like ‘ the need for an efficient and competitive ’ industry . |
| 25 | Having advised restraint by the Labour Party , I was angered , and indeed horrified , by the announcement that the government had asked Lord Denning to conduct his now infamous one-man inquiry into the matter , with terms of reference so loose that he regarded himself as charged to examine everyone 's activities through a microscope and to denounce anyone where there was a whisper of suspected immorality , let alone convincing proof . |
| 26 | For all that we might say about the relevance of performance indicators in financial reporting , a fundamental and seemingly intractable problem remains : performance can not be judged in terms of output alone , economy , efficiency and effectiveness must be judged together . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Thus , systems theory is essentially teleological — explanations are in terms of consequences rather than causes . |
| 30 | We 've got D V in terms of U so we can find D V by D U. |