Example sentences of "[adj] terms [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In English terms I would say that the property that Russell left is worth about ninety to a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 2 | In strict commercial terms it might even be negative . |
| 3 | The South therefore includes countries like Saudi Arabia with about 10m people and a GNP per capita of $12,230 per annum ; however , most of its income is derived from oil exports and investment income , and in economic and social terms it is still regarded as an underdeveloped country . |
| 4 | In social terms it is a rather heterogeneous group , although it almost certainly excludes the lowest income groups , who may be caught in the housing and job ‘ traps ’ in inner-city areas ( Department of the Environment 1977a ) . |
| 5 | According to the OECD 's 1990 report Development Co-operation , net financial flows to the developing world increased by 3 per cent to US$110,000 million in 1989 , though in real terms they were still little more than half the level at the start of the 1980s . |
| 6 | There 's no way that child should have died , but you know what these famous words in real terms , in real terms we are putting more money into the Health Service . |
| 7 | Now as a result of that , we always recognize there will be a loss to Shropshire County Council , because we 've benefited from the previous distribution , and as far as we can see in real terms we 've lost about a hundred and thirty thousand as a result of that move of a specific grant into distribution through your revenue support grant . |
| 8 | That side has improved and in real terms we have n't had to spend much in the past two or three years . |
| 9 | So in real terms you were getting nothing . |
| 10 | In real terms it can be a large sum to pay ( £700 — £1400 on a £70,000 sale ) so think carefully when you budget for a move . |
| 11 | Indeed , the Married Man 's Tax Allowance has recently been re-confirmed despite strong criticism of it ( for example , Equal Opportunities Commission , 1982b ) : in the March 1984 budget the allowance went up so that in real terms it is now higher than at any time since the war ( Financial Times , 14 March 1984 ) . |
| 12 | In evolutionary terms it is quite old — worms and other primitive life forms have analogous processes . |
| 13 | If the two novels were to be recast in late post-Freudian terms it would be clear how completely our attitudes have changed towards amatory and social matters : it is difficult to read the Ruritanian stones now in the way Anthony Hope 's first readers did and not to dismiss them as mere escapist romances . |
| 14 | The Greeks claim that their black economy is bigger than any other Community country 's , and so in absolute terms they are not quite as badly off as the published statistics make it seem . |
| 15 | Although the balance of power is shifting against the commission , in absolute terms it will gain power . |
| 16 | That may be half of what Darren paid for it , but in absolute terms it 's incredibly low depreciation over 40,000 and adds up to an excellent value motoring package . |
| 17 | New and expanded towns experienced the highest rates of population growth in the 1950s and 1960s , but in absolute terms it was the medium-sized cities , like Bristol , Leicester , and Southampton , which made the biggest contribution to overall population increase . |
| 18 | Although the post-reflex augmentation of UOS pressure is statistically highly significant , in absolute terms it is a modest effect and we doubt that it is of great importance for the prevention of oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |
| 19 | It expressed the feelings of many with its claim : " In moral terms we are creditors ; and for that we shall pay $140 million a year for the rest of the twentieth century . " |
| 20 | In overall terms it is difficult to say that the culture of a law degree has changed . |
| 21 | But if you think about it in contemporary terms I I was giving a lecture in London er a couple of weeks ago erm on the subject of erm America 's changing foreign policy under Clinton if you just think about foreign policy making and who makes it , and questions of consistency and you think about some of the crises that are going on in the world from Bosnia and so on what does the constitution tell us ? |
| 22 | What is crucial for our concerns here is that such a ‘ mentality ’ or ideology is constructed ; it is not something imposed by the form of literacy itself as though the ‘ technology of the intellect ’ , as Goody terms it , were determinate . |
| 23 | In simple terms it might well be better for rabbits to be killed while they are very young to eliminate the increased problem that follows from their reproduction . |
| 24 | In simple terms it covers the beliefs , values and assumptions which shape behaviour in organisations and are reflected ( perhaps imperfectly ) in structures and processes . |
| 25 | In corporate terms it has to be made more dangerous to acquiesce than to dissent and this is not an easy trick to turn . |
| 26 | It is rather strange that so little attention has been given so far to the mechanical properties of biological materials , though perhaps in human terms it is understandable . |
| 27 | This in itself is odd because in previous terms I had often ( though not regularly ) described meals in detail . |
| 28 | In this context it may be argued that if the ‘ inputs ’ are high in conventional terms it may reasonably be expected that the ‘ outputs ’ will also be high . |
| 29 | In harsh numerical terms we did n't accept the Policy Committee guidelines , we felt that they in some ways were over generous and we aimed for , we purposely , deliberately set ourselves lower targets with point we 're two point six million below the Liberal Democrats for nineteen ninety four ninety five . |
| 30 | Of the recent English titles issued , most ( 94% ) had been acquired by copyright deposit , but although the proportion of English titles which had been purchased was small ( 4% ) , in numerical terms they were three times as numerous as non-English purchases . |