Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [unc] hoc " in BNC.
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| 1 | The success of the ad hoc collaboration and co-operation between Hickson and Jacques during the war owed little to the elaborate mechanism of the RAC so tortuously constructed and thus led inevitably to its demise . |
| 2 | And , as for the cancellation of the ad hoc ministerial meeting due on 13 December , Biffen said , ‘ I do n't think there was any question of constitutional impropriety . ’ |
| 3 | Laurence O'Toole , another member of the ad hoc committee , dismissed the meetings and press conference as a ‘ slick piece of public relations ’ but said he would have believed assurances from the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science ( BSSRS ) . |
| 4 | Although litigation in support of such a claim has by no means been abandoned , the switch to a more overt political campaign raises the possibility of developing a more co-ordinated test-case strategy — in place of the ad hoc response previously resorted to — of the type developed in pursuit of civil right advocacy in the.USA , and welfare rights advocacy both there and in the UK , to try to influence the course of social change . |
| 5 | Instead , he increasingly resorted to the device of the ad hoc Interministerial Council , in which the prime minister and relevant ministers , along with senior military or civilian officials , were invited to the Elysée to consider a specific problem or area of policy . |
| 6 | A call for the adoption of " new environmental ethics " was issued at the close of a meeting in Tokyo of the ad hoc " Eminent Persons Group " , comprised primarily of former statesmen . |
| 7 | So we see the emergence without any express authority of an ad hoc national police force , co-ordinating the use of highly trained riot police and operating aggressive and uncompromising new tactics . |
| 8 | Take the variable x to cover any other particular event or condition , or set of events or conditions , which did not occur , such as the completing of an ad hoc electrical circuit . |
| 9 | I am not talking about the absence of an ad hoc electrical connection or about the presence of other things , either specifically or under some general description or by some general means , when I make the conditional statement . |
| 10 | The remainder of this section will consist of examples designed to clarify the notion of an ad hoc modification . |
| 11 | A tiny crack in the ice of formal relations with the Shipping Federation had appeared in June 1917 , when , arising out of an ad hoc conference attended by both parties on their own initiative on the limited issue of overtime in port on weekly vessels , a suggestion by the union that a Standing Central Joint Committee and appropriate District Committees might be set up to deal with this particular question , and possibly others , was referred by the representatives of the shipowners to their main body for consideration . |
| 12 | But the approach used has considerable advantage in principle over the cruder system used for educational deprivation , since there is an attempt to relate expenditure needs directly to deprivation indicators , rather than adoption of an ad hoc procedure with little justification other than expediency . |
| 13 | Crosland was replaced as Environment Secretary by Peter Shore , a much less exuberant and extrovert character , but a solid , steady man whom I had known over the years and had first met when he was the Secretary of an ad hoc committee formed by the Labour Party — with a few outside ‘ experts ’ such as Dennis Lloyd and myself — to produce a rental policy . |
| 14 | However , they continue : But it may perhaps be better understood as an analytical consequence of the Garfinkelian theory that the fit between organization and phenomena , between rules and their applications , is not determined in advance , but rather is the result of an ad hoc and context-sensitive process , performed by speakers ( by the use of shared " methods " ) , in which the recognition of the social act and the construction of interpretation of sequences of such acts are two sides of the same creative ( but nonetheless organized and accountable ) process . |
| 15 | Critics of the dual state thesis argue that in practice public expenditures can be classified according to their function only through a post hoc evaluation of their consequences or by knowing which organizations implemented the programmes ( which would make the whole schema tautologous ) . |
| 16 | Labour 's concern should be with the initial distribution of wealth , rather than with a post hoc redistribution . |
| 17 | A whole generation of non-English speaking minorities had to make do with an ad hoc system which provided makeshift translators , interpreters and semi-interpreters in G.P. 's surgeries , Hospitals , D.H.S.S offices , the Police Station and the Magistrate 's courts . |
| 18 | Paul-Henri Spaak , back as premier of Belgium , suggested that since the EDC Assembly did not yet exist , the Assembly of the ECSC could turn itself into an ad hoc EDC body specifically to consider a more wide-ranging political cooperation . |
| 19 | Employer interests in industrial relations may be promoted by individual firms or undertakings acting singly , by a group of enterprises acting together via an ad hoc body , or by a permanent association of employers to represent their collective interests . |
| 20 | Of course , you will have already acquired some people skills through an ad hoc process of learning from experience . |
| 21 | Natural behaviours in the first sense are few and far between ( see Instincts on page 93 ) since the majority of human behaviour has been acquired through an ad hoc learning process . |
| 22 | The opponents of the draft within the ad hoc assembly were primarily on the left . |
| 23 | The birth prevalence of some moderately common and rare congenital abnormalities not included in the ad hoc epidemiological studies was determined from the database of the Hungarian congenital abnormality register . |
| 24 | The analytic versus holistic dichotomy as it applies to laterality research has been more often invoked to explain results in a post hoc fashion than it has itself been subjected to experimental scrutiny . |
| 25 | Their recommendation to farmers is usually based upon an ad hoc or more systematic land capability assessment . |
| 26 | The prevalence of smoking among teenagers in Britain has been examined in an ad hoc way since the late 1960s . |
| 27 | Firstly , there needs to be an overall strategy for the change , rather than individual units trying to manage their own parts of it in an ad hoc way . |
| 28 | In order to take account of this , we are going to need some way of making appeals to notions like ‘ shared presuppositions ’ , 'encyclopedic knowledge' , ‘ intention / purpose in uttering ’ and ‘ experience of previous similar text ’ which we have simply appealed to in an ad hoc way in our discussion so far . |
| 29 | Risk attributable to drugs is poorly estimated because much data was collected in an ad hoc fashion from highly selected subgroups of patient populations that differ greatly in demographic and other characteristics from patient populations today . |
| 30 | If that fails , they try to modify the theory in an ad hoc manner . |