Example sentences of "with the [noun sg] of words " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frustration with the ineffectiveness of words lies behind a lot of physical violence . |
| 2 | Results of psycholinguistic experiments to do with the intelligibility of words spliced out of context seem to cast doubt on the usefulness of the categorization , however , Lieberman ( 1963 ) found that , the word borrower was recognised by 80% of subjects when isolated from the context , The borrowers were all imprisoned , but was only 45% intelligible in the context Neither a borrower nor a lender be . |
| 3 | Increasingly detailed levels of analysis might therefore be concerned with the patterning of sounds within words or , alternatively , with the relationship of words to other words or of words and sentences to the surrounding context ( Skinner 1957 ) . |
| 4 | After supper the ladies sung Erse songs , to which I listened as an English audience to an Italian opera , delighted with the sound of words which I did not understand . ’ |
| 5 | Semantics , in its strict linguistic sense , is concerned with the meaning of words , and not with non-linguistic facts about the world . |
| 6 | Cowley spoke softly , firmly , answering with the minimum of words , a pose he had adopted throughout the hearing . |
| 7 | A further and very different way in which Figure 9 is incomplete is that it deals only with the processing of words and has nothing to say about the processing of non-words . |
| 8 | On some computers such instructions are special cases of normal instructions , as in the example above ; another example might be a multiples length move instruction , with the number of words to be moved specified as zero . |
| 9 | And these were performed mostly as mimes , for fear Gabriel should be overburdened with the learning of words . |
| 10 | With the war of words between the two largest republics of the former Soviet Union reaching dangerous levels , Mr Yeltsin 's deputy , Mr Alexander Rutskoy , warned that if Kiev pressed its claims on the fleet , Russia would re-examine the status of the Crimean peninsula , where it is based . |
| 11 | With the war of words between the two largest republics of the former Soviet Union reaching dangerous levels , Mr Yeltsin 's deputy , Mr Alexander Rutskoy , warned that if Kiev pressed its claims on the fleet , Russia would re-examine the status of the Crimean peninsula , where it is based . |