Example sentences of "[num] words [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we discount Anderson 's lecture in scenes eleven to fourteen on the grounds that he is actually reading from a prepared script , rather than speaking conversationally , this turn of 53 words is the only long turn taken by him after scene six . |
| 2 | ‘ Blanket this on child the put ’ has no meaning , Yet if these six words are rearranged to read ‘ Put the child on this blanket ’ , the sentence does have meaning . |
| 3 | The six words are : |
| 4 | Ten bit positions are sufficient for most words ( 83% of words in a lexicon of 70,000 words are up to 10 letters long ) , so for words 10 letters long , bits 9 and 10 are set , and for words more than 10 letters long , only bit 10 is set . |
| 5 | The scholarly explanation is that the three words are past participles meaning ‘ numbered ’ , ‘ weighed ’ and in the case of Upharsin both ‘ divided ’ and ‘ Persians . ’ |
| 6 | The first problem here is that the brevity of Scaevola 's response ( even by his standards three words is modest ) leaves it unclear whether he means that the debtors are not freed from any liability , or whether it is just that they are not freed from liabilities contracted after the first will was made . |
| 7 | The tone of the last three words was neither bitter nor jocular , merely neutral , as befits a statement of fact . |
| 8 | In the motto , though , three words were altered to reverse the meaning . |
| 9 | Cheryl 's three words were hardly finished before Angela was racing back to the farmhouse shouting at the top of her voice . |
| 10 | The last three words were uttered under his breath and he looked as if he hated her , she saw , made fully aware of his resentment . |
| 11 | The three words were not a great deal for Carrie to pin her hopes to , but she had a warm and happy glow deep inside her as she let herself in at the door of the cottage . |
| 12 | Only three words were printed on it and these three were THE PRESLEY HOARD . |
| 13 | Simpler sentence forms were preferred and no sentence containing more than 18 words was used . |
| 14 | The old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is small consolation to an audience which ca n't hear any of them . |
| 15 | What I was Pat is five thousand words is really too bit a bite you know if you really want people to criticism off it , you wan na break it down into sort of two thousand word chapters really . |
| 16 | As a publish writer yourself I told her I 've been published articles you will understand the need for market targeting and as you mention at twenty thousand words is not full-length , though this could be if was aimed at children . |
| 17 | This is why groups of ten words are listed on page 114 . |
| 18 | 36 words were incorrectly recognised . |
| 19 | Only TRACE has the capacity to do so , but a connectionist lexicon of 4,000 words is not feasible given current technology . |
| 20 | Writing , he said , was a pleasure ; 4,000 words was a normal day 's work . |
| 21 | For a corpus of 2 million words the frequency of adjacent occurrence of groups of 2 and 3 words was determined and stored in a transition matrix . |
| 22 | Precisely because the composition of phonolexical sets can not be specified on phonological grounds , it is difficult to find a principled way of specifying the lexical input to the variable ( u ) ; eventually eighteen words were assigned to the set simply on the basis of observation . |
| 23 | Indeed , so interlinked have become questions of psychology with those of biology that the two words are gradually eliding . |
| 24 | Two words are used ; confinement and restraint . |
| 25 | Two words are awarded a high semantic score if the definition of one word contains the other . |
| 26 | and er there is some evidence that the two words are the same and that the original name of God was and that God was the sun and again there is evidence of sun worship er in the Bible . |
| 27 | If , as this example suggests , partial word strings of more than two words are necessary to guarantee selection of the correct word-string , then the number of alternative partial word strings that has to be considered at any one time will increase correspondingly , particularly when words are hypothesized from a mid-class input . |
| 28 | Using a Complete Shakespeare on CD , you can look for all cases where these two words are used within , say , five lines of each other ; and you 'll get your answer within a minute or so . |
| 29 | Can anybody remember what those two words are ? |
| 30 | All right so which two words are we going to start with ? |