Example sentences of "[prep] an [unc] hoc " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The remainder of this section will consist of examples designed to clarify the notion of an ad hoc modification . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Of course , you will have already acquired some people skills through an ad hoc process of learning from experience . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Their recommendation to farmers is usually based upon an ad hoc or more systematic land capability assessment . |
| 15 | The prevalence of smoking among teenagers in Britain has been examined in an ad hoc way since the late 1960s . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If that fails , they try to modify the theory in an ad hoc manner . |
| 20 | In so far as they have grown up in an ad hoc fashion , designed by the art colleges on an individual basis , it is difficult to generalize about them . |
| 21 | The present totality of teacher education for further education staff has grown in an ad hoc fashion . |
| 22 | The prototypical systems tend to deal with only a small number of words , with the lexicons being created in an ad hoc manner . |
| 23 | The paragraph clearly spelled out the story of supplementary benefits and income support payments to fund care in residential and nursing homes , saying that it was a telling example of what could happen if change was made in an ad hoc way . |
| 24 | Present day historians use preserved records to produce a picture of past societies , but such records have often been kept in an ad hoc way , thus limiting the use of the information . |
| 25 | I 'm not saying we have done this in an ad hoc way up to now but what we want is to try and develop a programme for this and I think that should be a very useful and , and frankly I would expect it to grow er over the years as the need develops . |
| 26 | Although this was done in an ad hoc and somewhat piecemeal fashion , it was intended to mirror the direction taken by the workshop itself . |
| 27 | Yes , came the resounding answer last week from an ad hoc group of America 's leading economists . |
| 28 | Other African communities , such as the Lozi on the Barotse floodplain in western Zambia , and , on a smaller scale the Yoruba in western Nigeria , maintained livestock herds which were essentially secondary to their crop production , providing manure for crops on an ad hoc basis . |
| 29 | He was doing a bit of odd work here and there on an ad hoc basis , not musical work . |
| 30 | The WEA fully supported these developments which had earlier occurred on an ad hoc basis in universities . |