Example sentences of "[noun] of words " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the combinatorial characteristics of words in utterances are constrained not only by their meanings , but also by their grammatical properties . |
| 2 | For our purposes it will be sufficient to draw attention to two fairly general and constant characteristics of words across a wide range of languages . |
| 3 | These include the spatial or temporal intervals between the elements making up a display ( Kimura , 1969 ; Hines and Satz , 1971 ) , the distance of stimuli from fixation ( Bryden , 1966 ; McKeever and Gill 1972c ; Carmon and Nachson , 1973 ; Curcio , MacKavey and Rosen , 1974 ) , the spatial frequency of the stimulus ( Rao , Rourke and Whitman , 1981 ) , the directional characteristics of words and letters ( Harcum and Filion , 1963 ; Bryden , 1966 ; 1968 ; White , 1969b ) , the number of times a stimulus is presented ( Hardyck , Tzeng and Wang , 1977 ; 1978 ; Schmuller , 1980 ) , exposure duration ( Bryden , 1965 ; Gill and McKeever , 1974 ; Beaumont and Dimond , 1975 ) , stimulus size ( Pring , 1981 ; Pitblado , 1979b ) , typeface ( Bryden and Allard , 1976 ) , complexity ( Fontenot , 1973 ) and discriminability ( Patterson and Bradshaw , 1975 ) . |
| 4 | This chapter is in a sense a crucial point in the course : although the segmental material of the preceding chapters is important as a foundation , the relationship between strong and weak syllables and the overall prosodic characteristics of words and sentences are essential to intelligibility , and most of the remaining chapters of the course are concerned with such matters . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In PS itself nothing is said about the sorts of words that are admissible ; there is merely a list of possible and impossible words . |
| 7 | Our eyes do not wander randomly around the page when we are reading , but certain sorts of words are fixated more often than others ( O'Regan , 1979 ) , and this means that we must know in advance of a fixation where it is that we are going to look next . |
| 8 | There 's , there 's one , something about a dog or something , involves describing somebody like a dog or that 's had a bad temper , I forget , there 's all sorts of words . |
| 9 | Since the mere association of words will not unambiguously point to meaning , the words need to be set down in a particular arrangement . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This defamiliarized perception of words which in ordinary circumstances we fail to notice is the result of the formal basis of poetry . |
| 12 | Caroline Thomas , editor of the Biggles books , accepts the books reflect their period , but makes the point that the changing perception of words actually leaves Biggles ' use of a word like nigger open to misinterpretation by the modern reader . |
| 13 | This process of filtering and condensing is both practical and intellectually useful since it forces you to reduce the bulk of words and yet preserve the essential meaning of the text . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The panel hopes now that this statement of faith can be seen as a useful and fairly accessible indicator to outsiders as to what the faith is all about , and at the same time as a ring of words which at least the majority of us within the church can happily affirm . |
| 16 | There was no adequacy of words — only this tranced awareness of mortality , and of the pain that the Rector and his wife must share to the exclusion of all others , alone in the bedroom , while Louisa stood between her father and the doctor in the hall , her limbs aching , her mind strangely uncertain of itself . |
| 17 | Ramsey 's weight in debates rested upon more than his manner and his fluency and his command of words . |
| 18 | His lectures became notable and popular ; he had a command of words and of the crisp phrase . |
| 19 | She has the rare gift of being able to take a joke against herself , and her command of words and easy rapport enable her to come up with a quick response to most situations . |
| 20 | Dan Sperber takes Lévi-Strauss to task for claiming that kinship systems should be regarded as a language with the circulation of women taking the place of the circulation of words : |
| 21 | The lexical structure of a language , its stock of words and expressions and its established patterns of collocation , provides its speakers with ready-made ways of analysing and reporting experience . |
| 22 | The confusion of words |
| 23 | The first thing to note is a certain confusion of words with concepts underlying the reductivist reasoning . |
| 24 | Certain fields attract certain styles of words . |
| 25 | It 's a problem that so enraged Martin Cutts of Words at Work that he took up a challenge to rewrite one . |
| 26 | It was like being in the top of the oak tree again , except this time the shimmer of woodland was transformed into the dream-like rhythm of words . |
| 27 | Compounds can pose problems for automatic text processing systems since many compounds of words are idiomatic and have developed meanings and grammatical properties different from the combinations of the individual words . |
| 28 | Tolkien thought there was a truth in the vagaries of words independent of their users . |
| 29 | There were , in the context of the established musical apparatus , new relationships of words and music , voice and instrument , white youth and black proletariat ; new , more collective composition methods ; a new involvement of the audience ( primarily through the bodies of listeners , but also through a new wave of do-it-yourself music-making ) . |
| 30 | Pictures , still and moving , can inform and excite through the eye , making real and vivid what would take a tedium of words to describe ; overhead projectors provide a more efficient , more stimulating and admirably repeatable blackboard ; records and tapes enable words , music and sounds to be replayed at will ; and all can be combined into patterns and programmes that do more than simply reinforce and enliven a lesson given in the traditional style . |