Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adj] words " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ rule-based ’ spelling currently being tested is about 20 per cent slower to read for the first 1200 words , although some backward readers and beginners immediately improve speed or accuracy . |
| 2 | : Table 3.8 shows the results for the first ten words selected from the relative frequency distribution list . |
| 3 | Table 4 supports the primacy effect as recall is significantly greater for the first three words in the list . |
| 4 | In fact , even the Japanese language version of these is worth a look , if only for the few English words that remain obstinately untranslatable and stick out glaringly among the elegant Japanese characters . |
| 5 | Table 3 shows recall to be significantly greater for the last five words in the list when recall is immediate and thus supports the recency effect . |
| 6 | This loading process is very fast ( a few seconds for the same 70,000 words ) because there is effectively only one piece of data to be read , instead of 70,000 . |
| 7 | His voice had changed during the last few words and she pushed him hard against the end of the settle as she said , ‘ No , they wo n't come running , but have you ever thought of you doin' the askin' ? |
| 8 | The innuendo in this remark proved too much for the petite figure in the front row , who during the last few words was showing signs of unmistakable distress . |
| 9 | If there is low correspondence between the actual missing words and the predictions , then the readability of that text for that particular readership is low . |
| 10 | But not between the last two words : |
| 11 | It has been said that no normal English speaker would ever pronounce all the consonants between the last two words of the following : ‘ George the Sixth 's throne ’ Though this is not impossible to pronounce , something like … is more likely . |
| 12 | Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair . |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't listen after the first few words , ’ said Cyril , ‘ because it was so stupid . ’ |
| 14 | However , she leaves more cheerfully after a few choice words from one of the boys suggesting that her photograph should be changed because it does n't do her justice . |
| 15 | After a few polite words , Sophie was about to do the same when Giles said , ‘ Do n't go . |
| 16 | During the week ashore you meet your companions and after a few discreet words the lead crew sorts you out . |
| 17 | Charles rose and after a few mumbled words about thanks , and keeping in touch , and being cheerful , and seeing himself out , he left . |
| 18 | Determined not to be outdone , Roth delivers a list of the only Spanish words he knows . |
| 19 | German speakers have difficulty in distinguishing between " bring " and " take " in English as these are translated by one German word " bringen " , but the English speaker has difficulty trying to decide which of the two English words is meant in any statement containing the German word " bringen " . |
| 20 | This mistake having been brought to light , perhaps the recruit was also a secret bigamist , someone wisecracked , making yet more play out of the two Greek words which formed the terminology of the newcomer 's subject of study . |
| 21 | Medline was searched independently by one of the authors , a research assistant , and a librarian for the years 1969 to 1992 , using combinations of the following key words : vitamin A , respiratory disease , diarrhoea , random allocation , and clinical trial . |
| 22 | The policeman immediately regretted his choice of the last two words . |
| 23 | The tone of the last three words was neither bitter nor jocular , merely neutral , as befits a statement of fact . |
| 24 | Mr. Beazley suggested that to do this would be adopting an isolationist attitude , but I am unable to accept this submission , particularly since Schedule 4 itself is a modified version of its counterpart in the Brussels Convention , which has been adapted in substantive respects to fit United Kingdom requirements , e.g. , by the addition of the last 12 words to article 5(3) , and by the insertion of the entirely new article 5(8) on which Mr. Beazley relies in the present case . |
| 25 | What had begun as a jeu d'esprit of a mere 30,000 words or so made Lewis a household name . |
| 26 | In the course of a few hundred words the following occur : catalles = chattels , Chrystean = Christian , peax = peace , freyle = freely , delyved = delivered , auctorytye = authority , mad = made , borow = borough , rome = room , jarretier = garter , and playnle = plainly . |
| 27 | This again implies some limitation on the quantitative measurement of style , for within the limited compass of a few hundred words , little statistical significance can be attached to the frequency of this or that feature . |
| 28 | Being a man of a few select words , Scott McNealy claims it ‘ works good and runs fast . ’ |
| 29 | Being a man of a few select words , Scott McNealy claims it ‘ works good and runs fast . ’ |
| 30 | Now it all went for nought because of a few careless words . |