Example sentences of "[prep] words " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The art or science dealing with a language 's inflexions and other means of showing the relation between words ’ |
| 2 | What emerges from recent counter-theory is that French-inspired theory tends to destroy straw men in its attack on reference , insisting that the relation between words and meaning is entirely arbitrary , a matter of difference only . |
| 3 | There is still a sense in which the relation between words and object can be called ‘ arbitrary ’ , since we are not dealing with onomatopeia , but it is quite unproblematical . |
| 4 | ( viii ) Pupils should be taught to help the reader by leaving a space between words and by ending sentences with a full stop or question mark and by beginning them with a capital letter . |
| 5 | They might rediscover the space between words and the gulf between them and those with whom they live . |
| 6 | ( Ignore punctuation marks and spaces between words in your count . ) |
| 7 | The ordinary hyphen is used between words that are hyphenated wherever they appear in a line and when those words would be split by a line-ending at the hyphen-point : eg well-known , time-consuming , up-to-date . |
| 8 | And what is the nature of this relationship between words and contexts 1 have referred to ? |
| 9 | I have presented grammar as a device for mediating between words and contexts . |
| 10 | Learners need to realize the function of the device as a way of mediating between words and contexts , as a powerful resource for the purposeful achievement of meaning . |
| 11 | The bibliographer Lowndes , over a hundred years ago , categorically listed eight different title-pages for the first edition of Milton 's Paradise Lost , pointing out such differences as large or small italic capitals for the poet 's name ; in one case the use of his initials only-groups of stars between words , or none ; with or without fleur-de-lis ornaments , etc . |
| 12 | the semantic relations between words in English vocabulary as a whole and in texts ; |
| 13 | The gap between words and experience is already great ; at its best , the language struggles towards a fullness it can never achieve . |
| 14 | Finally , while Chomsky assumed that without a priori knowledge , a distributional analysis of a naturally occurring language sample would inevitably fail to identify correspondences between words and their respective lexical roles , more recent studies have suggested that this view may have been unduly pessimistic ( Maratsos 1983 ) . |
| 15 | Just as words represent concrete things in the world and the relationship between words in an utterance refers to a relationship between concrete things , so cultural artefacts refer back to the history of culture . |
| 16 | using small spaces between letters and larger spaces between words which can easily be distinguished by the recogniser , the following was often found : |
| 17 | Bold print , clear layout of the page and adequate margin and spacing between words and letters , however , may well mean that at least in deciphering print , the pupil with sight difficulties is not having to deal with unnecessary complexities to compound existing problems . |
| 18 | Already we have that dichotomy between words and deeds that typifies hypocrisy , and which runs throughout the play . |
| 19 | Finally , the development of a semantic typology allows the identification of horizontal and vertical links between words , the tracing of hyponyms and hypernyms of given words , and the identification of the properties of premodifiers and postmodifiers . |
| 20 | A positive result would provide evidence of the technique 's ability to identify genuine semantic relationships between words , independent of any particular application area . |
| 21 | If this proves to be the case , then evidently the process is sensitive to semantic relationships between words ; specifically those that people are sensitive to . |
| 22 | ( Consider the nonsensical case where the core vocabulary is only half a dozen words — strong overlaps between words would be almost inevitable ! ) . |
| 23 | The syllables making up an instruction are placed immediately after the syllables of the previous instruction , without regard for the boundaries between words . |
| 24 | Indeed , in Mason 's experiment , the skilled readers showed smaller overall response time differences between words and nonwords . |
| 25 | Comprehension depends upon rapid work recognition , for if the reader is devoting time and attention to the individual words , then the relationships between words will not be appreciated and the integration of word meanings will not be calculated . |
| 26 | Historically , it originated in the recognition by the early scribes in the twelfth–fourteenth centuries that readers needed visual clues to tell the difference between words that otherwise would look identical ; and one of the ways they tried to show this was by the addition of the e . |
| 27 | In presenting the traditional semantic view of reference , Lyons ( I968 : 404 ) says that ‘ the relationship which holds between words and things is the relationship of reference : words refer to things ’ . |
| 28 | However , there is a marked difference in the degree of interruptibility between words and phrases . |
| 29 | In the Turkish example , although several grammatical elements can be inserted within the word , they are strictly determinate in number and identity ; whereas between words , if one takes into account coordinations and parenthetical insertions , the possibilities are infinite . |
| 30 | Instead of denoting a direct relationship between words and extra-linguistic objects , reference is limited here to the relationship of identity which holds between two linguistic expressions . |