Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of word " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , dictionaries can also be used to define unknown words , relying on the assumption that the majority of words in the definition will already be known by the user . |
| 2 | Frustration with the ineffectiveness of words lies behind a lot of physical violence . |
| 3 | The structure of sentences , the use of repetition , the linking ( or not ) of thoughts or ideas , the variety of words used and the grammatical structure of sentences yield yet more clues . |
| 4 | This Report has argued that music can have a life of its own and an ability to communicate without the support of words . |
| 5 | Although they were quick on the uptake of word processing systems , the company has one computer per staff member , they were still ‘ double keying ’ the majority of their text although portions were being supplied to the typesetters on disk . |
| 6 | In the case of Word on both systems the export includes such portions of the stylesheet as are supported by the word processor . |
| 7 | Table 7 and 8 show that RFA is not so great for females as for the overall population , especially in the case of word recognition , which is not so significantly great . |
| 8 | In the case of words which combine a fairly definite descriptive meaning with a valuational meaning it is rather a puzzle to say what correct linguistic usage bids one do , if one recognizes that something answers to the descriptive meaning , but does not have the attitude towards it which the word expresses in virtue of its ‘ value charge ’ , as one might put it . |
| 9 | In the case of words such as ‘ bottle ’ , ‘ muddle ’ , ‘ struggle ’ , which are quite common , it would be a mispronunciation to insert a vowel between the and the preceding consonant . |
| 10 | The Johnston and McClelland model therefore predicts that the advantage of word targets over letter targets will be the same with a backward mask which is a word , as with as backward mask consisting of a random sequence of letters . |
| 11 | For these reasons , it would not be appropriate to assimilate idioms to the category of words . |
| 12 | And especially we thank you today for the call of Martin and Ian and Richard to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament within the light of your church . |
| 13 | of light and the cocktail of words |
| 14 | The presence of words that form a compound in consecutive positions other than by intention is improbable , hence from knowing the existence of a compound tennis courts one would give priority to these individual words over their alternative candidates . |
| 15 | The inner tension wonderfully created by Reimann in ‘ Aufenthalt ’ is seconded by the voice of Fassbaender tears into a line like ‘ Fliessen die Trane ’ while ‘ In der Ferne ’ is notable for the weighting of words by the singer , of notes by the pianist . |
| 16 | Is that is that the kind of word that you would use about er |
| 17 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |
| 18 | It is it 's more of a little story and it 's not a front page shocker which I think is what we said we 'd set out to write , a front page shocker okay so I think you 've got to think about the kind of words you use . |
| 19 | Erm it 's for it 's it 's in order that , that in the nineties we have a historical record , I think I 'm I think I 'm saying this right , there is a historical record of the kind of words that are being introduced into the into our language into our vocabulary like for example i.e. |
| 20 | Because if you do n't , if do n't do a word by word translation , as some of you did , you , you may miss the meaning of certain words , and that might totally alter your perception of what 's being said , and then what you should , wh when you 've done a literal translation , you will have a very stiff erm , u unusual version of it , written in modern English vocabulary but you 'll find that word ordering and things like that wo n't be appropriate , and sometimes the vocabulary are n't the kind of words that would normally be used now . |
| 21 | Very few systems attempt to use any information beyond the level of word recognition . |
| 22 | The greater the contribution of context in the sense of shared knowledge and experience the less need there is for grammar to augment the association of words . |
| 23 | The slow , deliberate verse movement ; the invocation of such abstractions as ‘ fortitude and patient chear ’ ; the careful avoidance of metaphorical expressions ; the weight of moral earnestness ; the balancing of word against word , of phrase against phrase , of the first half against the second half of the poem — in listing these characteristics we move back fifty years . |
| 24 | Instead of assessing the feasibility of words combining to form a sentence and providing a syntactic representation for the result , a word grammar determines the feasibility of morphemes combining to create a word . |
| 25 | What we are groping for , what Pound ( we now see ) is inciting us to grope for , what Yeats is laying claim to , is that effect in writing which an earlier criticism knew as ‘ lapidary ’ : that is to say , the effect or the illusion of words as not written or printed on a page , but as incised on a stone block . |
| 26 | But if phonemic competitors are included , some means of resolving the phonemes identity and filtering out improbable words must be applied as quickly as possible to stop the proliferation of word strings . |
| 27 | By his technique , by the force of words and theme , by the disciplined speed of his narrative , he draws us into a fiction which takes off from a foundation of known fact and recognisable truth . |
| 28 | Amongst the jumble of words , he distinguished his own name and the word ‘ home ’ . |
| 29 | If the meaning of the unattended word is critical in demonstrating an effect , then we can conclude that attention is not necessary for the recognition of word meanings , and this argument was used in the experiment by Underwood , Whitfield and Winfield ( 1982 ) described above . |
| 30 | This section of the discussion concerns the use of sentence contexts in the recognition of words , and the way in which our eyes inspect some words in preference to others . |