Sentence examples for a sequence of familiar from inspiring English sources

The germ trail, a sequence of familiar banalities, hits home.

"Duchamp, Dreier and Man Ray were not so much interested in assembling a sequence of familiar figures, but an attunement to the issues and personalities of modern art," she said.

As a physical manifestation of chaos, it's all but the Platonic definition of news, a sequence of familiar but seemingly ungovernable events that threaten to affect every one of us.

Different melody tests exist, such as simple melody recognition with lyrics [29] or a sequence of familiar notes [30 32], complex song recognition, and complex song appraisal [29].

The mismatch negativity (MMN) component is a contemporary of N100, possessing a latency of approximately 130 ms and a duration of 250 300 ms. The MMN is evoked by nonstandard or unfamiliar auditory stimuli (also called deviant stimuli), which are randomly inserted into a sequence of standard or familiar sound stimuli [ 14].

A sequence-of-tenses problem.

On one level, British Design is a sequence of cliches that we are familiar with.

Cut loose by his appalling 'normal' parents, Barnaby floats off to meet a sequence of 'different' friends, all equally familiar with rejection (including Ethel and Marjorie, a squawky, comical but unfailingly kind old couple in a hot-air balloon).

So Augustine toys with the idea that God's atemporal knowledge of events in time is like the voice producing a sequence of sounds as it recites a familiar psalm.

In the fixed-target (consistent mapping) version (Everling et al. 2002, 2006), monkeys had long training in monitoring a sequence of pictures for a particular, highly familiar target.

W.S. Gilbert displayed his skill in a sequence of limericks that Arthur Sullivan set as the familiar song in The Sorcerer (1877): My name is John Wellington Wells, I'm a dealer in magic and spells, In blessings and curses, And ever-fill'd purses, In prophecies, witches, and knells.