Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] terms " in BNC.

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1 As an executive with a long-term career plan to protect , you may have sound reasons for leaving before a dismissal occurs or for departing on mutually agreed terms .
2 The epithets " naughty " and " dirty " arise , perhaps reinforcing terms used at an earlier stage as regards the eliminatory functions or inadvertent sexual display .
3 The House of Lords found that the legislation only allowed terms to be attached which related to the use of the site and not to the types of contract the site owner could make with the caravan owners .
4 Mushtaq , soon to agree terms with Somerset , conceded only 47 runs in 24 first-innings overs
5 Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve .
6 Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve .
7 After Dame Sirith is introduced as a character ( line 154 ) , the terms of courtship in the conventions of fin amour become blended with persistently repeated terms of an altogether different register and semantic field : that of the marketplace and brothel .
8 He spent yesterday finalising terms of his payoff package with Treasury officials .
9 Cantona came into it on Thursday and quickly agreed terms .
10 We actually need to be out in the community working with people who are dependent upon those services and at the same time we 've got to recognize that our nationally agreed terms and conditions are under serious threat .
11 If a contract is silent on a particular matter , judges will usually imply terms and try to give the contract business efficacy .
12 They still use terms like Lanarkshire and Dumfrieshire up here do n't they ?
13 According to the company 's product manager , Howard Green , ‘ it 's a fair assumption to make that the company will be doing implementations for the Alpha , but we 're still negotiating terms . ’
14 Maturities vary but they tend to be longer than those for conventional stocks ; only three of the 13 stocks outstanding at end-September , 1991 had maturity dates before the end of the century and several still had terms to maturity in excess of 20 years .
15 Deference to concepts of order based on such signifiers as exact time keeping , definitive shift systems , spatial purity , clearly demarcated terms of address , and other measures designed to maintain the systems of control were irrevocably loosened .
16 So when his teacher later elaborated terms such as ‘ ratio ’ , he understood immediately what they meant — not as mathematical abstractions but as elements of the real world .
17 The most carefully drafted terms will be useless if they are never incorporated into the client 's contracts .
18 The two companies also reached terms on the royalties IBM must pay Microsoft for OS/2 , but refused to disclose details .
19 The pair were in the front rank throughout , nothing else landing a blow , and Golden Chip had also dictated terms to his rivals over a mile on the same course four days earlier .
20 He does not seem to have noticed that the United States federal system is inherent in the constitution which those who joined the federation accepted on clearly defined terms .
21 ‘ Before there is any possible move to a voluntary co-operative the government will have to guarantee enabling legislation so that board assets can be transferred , a suitable transition period to avoid chaos in the market , and clearly defined terms for a poll of producers . ’
22 That report says : ’ We do not recommend a requirement to indicate animal rearing methods on foods labels we therefore recommend that the possibility of drawing up a standard system , which clearly defines terms to indicate welfare-orientated rearing methods , should be considered ’ .
23 But they also retained Tutorial Classes as one of the types of course eligible for grant ; incidentally they also defined terms long familiar to the WEA — ‘ Sessional ’ ( ‘ courses lasting for one educational year comprising not less than twenty meetings ’ ) and ‘ Terminal ’ ( ‘ courses comprising not less than ten meetings ’ ) , to describe other courses .
24 The UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , held talks in Tehran with President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Vellayati on Sept. 10-13 , primarily on the implementation of UN Resolution 598 ending the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war [ see pp. 35600 ; 36568-70 ] , but reportedly also covering terms for the release of Western hostages still held in Lebanon .
25 Even ( some might say especially ) in purely trading terms , Britain has been paying a very high price for her membership of the EEC .
26 The first step taken by Tylers was to impose substantially reduced terms and conditions , the next step was to tell G M B members that they must work as many hours as necessary to complete their refuse tasks .
27 Other factoring companies now use terms such as Cash Flow Management ( RoyScot Factors ) and Business Finance ( Alex Lawrie ) in their promotional materials .
28 I am not suggesting , of course , that such uniquely referring terms are available for any kind of objects whatever .
29 SAVERS have a wider choice of safe havens for their funds now , but sceptics may question whether the multiplication of accounts has really improved terms available to depositors .
30 At each visit , a detailed interview was conducted about the occurrence on each day of the week of 21 listed symptoms , signs , and conditions , using locally defined terms where appropriate .
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