Example sentences of "in terms which [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jubilant Knox wrote about her death in terms which make it clear why charity has not been thought a notable feature of Scottish Calvinism . |
| 2 | In his dramatic resignation statement before a huge press conference in the Ministry of Defence on the afternoon of Thursday 9 January 1986 , Heseltine explained his sudden walkout at that morning 's Cabinet meeting in terms which raised it high above a small , troubled helicopter manufacturer in the West Country . |
| 3 | Foreign policy was , then , defined by the military in terms which served their own interests ; namely , the maintenance of the role and size of the armed forces in society . |
| 4 | The defendant , who was the freehold owner of a house , subject to a local authority mortgage , emigrated to the United States in 1976 , leaving the house in the occupation of his mother , his sister , C. and her husband , D. In April 1979 the defendant signed a power of attorney in favour of his mother in terms which enabled her to sell the property . |
| 5 | The racialization of place , the construction of a political geography in which certain areas like Brixton and White City are coded in terms which mark them out as ‘ front lines ’ of racial confrontation ( inner city/urban jungle/ghetto ) is thus the outcome of complex antagonisms within and between the police force and working-class communities , and is reinforced from both sides . |
| 6 | It is generally the present tense which is used when you describe a text , even when you describe it in terms which place it in the past ( e.g. by mentioning the author ) : In Los Gusanos ( 1991 ) John Sayles describes Miami as it was in the early 1980s . |
| 7 | Indeed , an unusual number of great scientists wrote in terms which allowed them to be readily popularised — sometimes excessively so — Darwin , Pasteur , the physiologists Claude Bernard ( 1813–78 ) and Rudolf Virchow ( 1821–1902 ) and Helmholtz ( 1821–94 ) ( see p. 315 ) , not to mention physicists like William Thompson , Lord Kelvin . |