Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] of words " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead his lips compressed , as if he were physically stemming a tide of words , and he slung his briefcase on to the bare chart table . |
| 2 | Both these instances are of verbal trickery , using a form of words which most often have one meaning but which , in strict logic , can have another . |
| 3 | I 'm prowling in other words , by using a lot of words ! |
| 4 | A way would have to be found by the time of the Edinburgh Summit ( later the Birmingham Summit was introduced for the same purpose ) of providing a form of words ( possibly involving subsidiarity ) which would help the Danes to save face . |
| 5 | Many readers are hindered by inaudibly ‘ pronouncing ’ each word rather than scanning a group of words to get the meaning of a sentence and rapid reading classes can be helpful in correcting this deficiency . |
| 6 | Surely in a way I 'm answering my own point , you would have to go beyond just having a set of words on paper which says we have a major exceptions policy . |
| 7 | One can think of laying a graph of words over a graph of lower-level units such as phonemes . |