Example sentences of "of words [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tel. 071–272 1266 ) may be able to arrange for someone to conduct a non-religious ceremony , or can send a form of words that could be used ( leaflets are available from these organisations on receipt of an sae ) . |
| 2 | In all the many thousands of words that have been expended on Eliot 's achievements , this crucial matter — his alertness to , and exploiting of , the rhythms of the English verse-line — remains a vacuum , occupied only by unsupported and insupportable appeals to ‘ the ear ’ . |
| 3 | Despite the millions of words that have been written and spoken on the subject of ‘ 1992 ’ , there still appears to be much more to be said on the subject . |
| 4 | In PS itself nothing is said about the sorts of words that are admissible ; there is merely a list of possible and impossible words . |
| 5 | IF YOU watch television and listen to news-readers , leaders of industry , pop-bawlers and ‘ presenters ’ , you could make a whole glossary of words that have been shortened in the interests of inarticulacy and idleness . |
| 6 | The ideas pushing and tumbling out in a fever of words that were scarcely intelligible . |
| 7 | Make a list of words that describe how you think Brian Smart would feel about coming to school each day . |
| 8 | Macaulay found The Prelude ‘ to the last degree Jacobinical , indeed Socialist ’ : the linking of words that look far back into the past and equally far forward into the future shows that from the point of view of the Whig benches at any rate , Wordsworth 's politics were lamentably consistent . |
| 9 | He mumbled a couple of words that I could n't quite hear . |
| 10 | It is not only the order of words that has changed , however , but also the form of the verb itself , since the active verb arrested becomes was arrested in the passive . |
| 11 | There are hundreds and hundreds of words that we use in everyday language to describe them . |
| 12 | One can go to Roget 's index and under the word ‘ include ’ find an alphabetically sorted list of words that are alternatives to ‘ include ’ . |
| 13 | The language of a finite-state recogniser is the set of words that it will accept . |
| 14 | Thus the structure of spoken sentences need not have derived entirely from combination of words that had replaced single gesture types . |
| 15 | To suggest that some oral forms of education involve a use of words that lack ‘ classificatory and analytic isolating functions ’ , as Greenfield does , is meaningless . |
| 16 | The form of words that he used were these : ‘ Lord king , I do you homage for all the lands which I ought to hold from you ’ . |
| 17 | Forms of words that suggested , for example , that nature abhorred a vacuum were abhorrent to him , because they amounted to a deification of nature . |
| 18 | In applications where the domain is restricted or known in advance , semantic knowledge structures can be used to constrain the range of words that are statistically likely to occur within that subject area . |
| 19 | It is this latter set of words that is of semantic interest , as it is they that ’ seem to contain more meaning ’ [ Bolinger & sears , 1981 ] |
| 20 | Instead , we need to measure the number of words that have senses related to the same domain , since these are more likely to co-occur in typical usage . |
| 21 | These comforted her , not because she had any faith in their message , but because they were phrased with some beauty ; they were made up of words that seemed to apply to some large and other world of other realities , and they bore witness , also , to the fact that somebody had thought it worth his while to put them up . |
| 22 | The program memory will contain a long list of words that will tax the resources of most children . |
| 23 | It is usually possible for the teacher to type in a list of words so that the game can be aimed at a specific child , providing additional experience of words that may be giving difficulty . |
| 24 | but I mean it depends also I suppose erm , when your aiming for is the market , and I , I , I would like to have my work published but I also like to perform it and its got to be attractive to be looked at , in the first instance in , on a page its not known , er , there is , there is a lot of debate at the moment about using erm pages for poetry and some poets have actually starting using , writing from the wrong side and , and , and , and writing in the shape of a poem , for instance , if , what poem I was thinking off was a , was a waterfall so it was cascading the words cascading , you almost have to pick , ha , ha , have a choice of , of words that you want to fit into a particular thing , erm I think that 's had its place , but I think it can be a bit off putting as well , yeah , but it exciting , yeah definitely . |
| 25 | And the aim is that the conversations are going to be anonymous and they are trying to compile a dictionary of words that people actually use , rather than a dictionary for people who do crosswords . |
| 26 | There are quite a lot of words that that will work for . |
| 27 | There was a certain ritual quality in this exchange , as though Melanie had stumbled on the secret sequence of words that would lead her safe over the sword-edge bridge into the Castle of Corbenic . |
| 28 | In some areas Acts lay down clear central powers of control — the 1944 Education Act , for example — but in others the main statutes merely indicate by a variable form of words that the Ministry or Secretary of State of the central department is in the position of ultimate authority and will provide a general overall guidance . |
| 29 | There are systems in research laboratories which approach this goal but increasing the number of speakers who can be recognised reduces the number of words that can be accepted at any one time . |
| 30 | This poem uses lots of words that sound as if they ought to be proper words but are not . |