Example sentences of "[noun] for [adj] words " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelly and Tomlinson-Keasey ( 1977 ) , Scholes and Fischler ( 1979 ) and Ross , Pergament and Anisfeld ( 1979 ) all showed slight LVF advantage for English words among deaf subjects , but these results did not reach significance ( although they were significant for hearing people as a RVFA ) . |
| 2 | We have been round the BBC buoy many a time , so there is no excuse for hasty words , or mistakes . |
| 3 | They typically selected novel objects as referents for novel words , and appropriate referents for familiar words . |
| 4 | They typically selected novel objects as referents for novel words , and appropriate referents for familiar words . |
| 5 | During adolescence , the teenager may develop special meanings for certain words known only to the peer group and not understood by adults . |
| 6 | The network can be seen as divided into four layers : the first shows the syntactic parse tree for the sentence ; the second , the actual input words ; the third , a cluster of meanings for individual words ( with mutually inhibitory links ) ; and the fourth , a contextual interpretation of the input ( with activatory and inhibitory links between lexical categories and meanings ) . |
| 7 | The rules for complex words are different from those for simple words and these will be dealt with in Chapter 11 . |
| 8 | There will be no repeated searching of the dictionary for obscure words . |
| 9 | Common literature methods ( Tappert , 1982 ; Hall and Dowling , 1980 ; Berghel , 1987 ) have used string matching techniques , ( e.g. nearest match methods , approximate string matching ) to find candidates for intended words once an error has been identified . |
| 10 | ‘ I have exhorted my wife to the point where I am at a loss for patient words , ’ he protested . |
| 11 | Its purpose is chiefly to add entries for new words and new meanings of words : ‘ new ’ implying that they came into existence , or came to the attention of scholars , after the relevant part of OED was published , and therefore could not be inserted in the main work . |
| 12 | It shows to be wholly naive claims that the problem of the patriarchal nature of the biblical literature could be solved by for example substituting certain female words for male words , or concentrating on those stories which concern women . |
| 13 | Sort of big words for little words that 's a big word , you have to think of an addition , I 've had it in nineteen |
| 14 | The logogens for three-letter words ending with t would be even more excited . |
| 15 | While there can be no objection in principle to allowing foreigners access to the English courts , it is doubtful whether they should be permitted to recover damages for defamatory words which may freely circulate in the country where the plaintiff 's reputation would be most affected . |
| 16 | The letter detectors in turn excite detectors for consistent words . |
| 17 | In experiments using British schoolchildren of the same age as Barron 's , selected according to similar criteria for being classified as " good " or " poor " readers , we have found that on a variety of tasks the poorer readers do show an ability to use the phonological codes for printed words ( Briggs and Underwood , 1982 ; Underwood and Briggs , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | Semantic analysis may also help by identifying a domain code for content words . |
| 19 | Other studies indicate a RVFA for both deaf and hearing people for English words but with hearing people showing a stronger effect ( McKeever et al. , 1976 ; Manning et al. , 1977 ; Poizner , Battison and Lane , 1979 ) . |
| 20 | As a collection of grand , but empty , symbols , ultimately signifying nothing but a schoolboy 's penchant for rude words and offensive gestures . |
| 21 | And K for key words . |
| 22 | I culled the German newspapers for new words and idioms and felt a little smug for having done ‘ something useful ’ . |
| 23 | Maxi-Read presents , in essentially one screen if you ignore its overspill ( and possibly overkill ) analysis for complex words , a useful summary of some important factors in text construction . |
| 24 | One of the few occasions for sharp words between them , in public at any rate , occurred when Elena disagreed about internal decorations with him . |