Example sentences of "only [adj] words " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim is to reduce the pattern level ambiguity until only allowable words remain . |
| 2 | In Dying Happy , which is only 1500 words long , I used a man in a hospice as narrator . |
| 3 | Although the authentic language feature implies a high passive vocabulary , the active vocabulary is only 600 words . |
| 4 | They were only three words but at that moment they were as pertinent as the universe . |
| 5 | He had spoken only three words but they had sounded different … nice . |
| 6 | According to an old story the Devil , intending to win the souls of the Basques , tried to learn their language , but after seven years of unremitting study had mastered only three words . |
| 7 | Only three words were printed on it and these three were THE PRESLEY HOARD . |
| 8 | When applying glottochronological analyses it is crucial that only cognate words are compared , and not words which are coincidentally similar , or which may have been borrowed from one language into another : to include these would give a false high rating of similarity . |
| 9 | It is only these words that have passed through the legal machinery of law-making , and individual Members of Parliament can not be put into the witness-box to supplement or interpret what has been formally enacted . |
| 10 | Listening : a text is dictated at a speed which allows only key words to be noted . |
| 11 | The filtering process also produces lists of words bearing a certain feature , but only those words of which all the senses have the feature . |
| 12 | Children become aware of this and tend to communicate in only those words that the computer understands . |
| 13 | In a lexicon of only 4,000 words , the most frequently occurring tri-gram at the start of a word only occurs 52 times ( it is the tri-gram pro ) . |
| 14 | But Eubank had only harsh words for Piper saying : ‘ The only thing that impressed me about him was that you could see he was thinking about what he was doing . |
| 15 | The ’ Harriet was hungry ’ example may be only nine words long , but it nevertheless demonstrates many aspects of knowledge that need to be made explicit to a computer before it could be said to understand . |
| 16 | Surprisingly , Sir Alec has only five words of dialogue in the entire 90-minute film , though he appears in almost every scene . |
| 17 | Goneril and Regan bear their father only flattering words , and lust for their own power . |
| 18 | A maximum of around five letters per second ( very fast ) gives only 60 words per minute transmission , when a normal spoken rate would be about 150 per minute ( and that would include pauses ) . |
| 19 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 20 | Although HWIM 's lexicon contained only 1000 words , the grammar was very general : an ATN with an estimated branching ratio of 196 . |
| 21 | Because of this , successful systems tend to be speaker dependent , allowing only isolated words , and have small vocabularies ( Holmes , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | And with harassed English treasurers now seeking help from the Scots on how to implement the tax next April , one senior council official said he could offer only two words of advice — ‘ Expect chaos . ’ |
| 23 | It 's irretrievable naffness can be conveyed in only two words — Junior Giscombe . |
| 24 | Only two words were spoken . |
| 25 | Some of the letters were in ballpoint , some in a big fat lazy hand in heavy black ink , only twenty-six words on the page , some typed ( some well-typed , some mis-typed ) ; but despite these differences , each letter began with the same phrase : My Dear Boy . |
| 26 | We understand the meaning of words from their context , and in ordinary life the context includes not only other words used at the same time but the whole human or social situation in which the words are used . |
| 27 | It concentrates just on lexical access — there is no syntactic or semantic component — and its lexicon contains only 211 words . |
| 28 | The lexicon contains only 211 words and so most items will be phonetically distinct . |
| 29 | Find every instance of Paint again , but only whole words . |