Sentence examples for an accepted convention from inspiring English sources

It was an accepted convention that a lollipop lady pretty much stuck to the corner that they had been assigned, but my mother gave herself a more roving brief, so a motorist might be in their car a hundred yards from the junction with no children in sight when Molly would leap out waving her lollipop at their windscreen, forcing them to stop.

This is an accepted convention, even within science, but in a crucial technical sense it may be incorrect to do so, for these changes reflect alterations that occur over the time scale of a single entity, and as such can be seen as developmental rather than evolutionary processes (provided there have not been successive 'generations' of universes, or 'multiverses,' which we cannot rule out).

A widely accepted convention to define a case of mental disorder using the GHQ-12 is a score ⩾3 (Goldberg et al, 1997).

But the Urals-Ural-Caspian-Caucasus border was (and is) by no means a generally accepted convention.

For example, if you're taking a poll on how people plan to vote in an election, the accepted convention is that two standard deviations above or below the average, which gives a 95percentt confidence level, is reasonable.

For example, Chambers gives 'R' as an abbreviation for 'River' (not 'river'), presumably on the grounds that it is used on maps followed by the name of the river in question, but there seems to be a long-established and widely accepted convention among crossword setters, myself included, that R/r = river is OK.

In this paper we use the most widely accepted convention of a score of three or more defined as a case [ 7].

The scores of the SF-36 do not follow a normal distribution, yet the accepted convention among authors is to use means, standard deviations and ANOVA in statistical analyses.

The generally accepted convention concerning marriage suggests that marriage has a best age period, and the probability of an individual's marriage (except for those who do not want to marry) may be reduced if he or she misses their best age period.

There was an insufficient number of ratings per item to perform a factor analysis (i.e., we had less than the well accepted convention that there should be at least 10 cases/participants for each item being tested).

It is like the theatre where you know the name of the playwright, but when the curtain rises the accepted convention is that the audience doesn't take all the actions or opinions on the stage as the author's.