Sentence examples similar to absent antecedent from inspiring English sources

But he skidded off the rails and into a bog of free-floating pronouns and absent antecedents.

However, if mucociliary clearance is impaired (as in smokers [ 21] or older patients [ 22]) or secretory anti-influenza IgA antibodies are absent (as in no antecedent exposure to the virus), infection continues unabated [ 23].

The new nails are, like their more conspicuous antecedents, long and absent of cuticles, but their shape and shade is softer.

Similarly, while class III cyclases appear to be abundant in the chlorophyte algal antecedents of land plants, they are absent in flowering plants [ 34].

In Section 3.1, most importantly, exclusive cp-laws (factors not mentioned in the antecedent of the law are assumed to be absent) are distinguished from comparative cp-laws (factors not mentioned in the antecedent of the law are assumed to be constant).

I note thankfully that another tradition the annual "Santarchy" riot, when a drunken mob of Santas would run riot downtown in pre-planned mayhem is absent, so far.Yuletide in New Zealand is a summer-solstice affair, but colonial British antecedents remain in wintry rituals, decorations and food: fake snow adorns frontages and heavy roasts are dished up while the mercury soars.

Introduce, too, the term antecedent.

"Genesis" honors its biblical antecedent.

Well antecedent to this rhyme.

Erskine Childers is another antecedent.

Reagan is the antecedent Palin would prefer.