Sentence examples for cancellable from inspiring English sources

In a nutshell, most contracts worth more than £35 made in the home are cancellable by a consumer within seven days but, in this case, you tried to cancel too late, on the eighth day.

They are cancellable, they can make use of contextual clues, but they are not 'processes' in any cognitively interesting sense of the term: they don't involve conscious inference, albeit, in Recanati's terminology, they involve inference in the broad sense: the agent is not aware of performing an inference but is aware of the consequences of this pragmatic enrichment of the interpreted sentence.

On the other hand, like Grice's GCIs, they are cancellable without contradiction.

This step is cancellable when it becomes obvious to the addressee that the resulting meaning is not what the speaker had intended.

However, this working hypothesis may have to be reassessed if we want to account for Strawson's observations, which might be taken to show that presuppositions are cancellable not only in complex sentences but in simple sentences, as well.

Perhaps the fact that these defaults are not so easily cancellable comes from their property of resembling lexical compounds and, like in the case of compounds, the link between the juxtaposed lexemes is very strong in their case.