Sentence examples for definite as if from inspiring English sources

Thus, for example, Atlas (1976) suggests that an embedding of a definite under a negation will tend to produce a meaning that is ruled out as insufficiently strong to satisfy the maxim of quantity, unless it is strengthened by treating the definite as if it had wide scope and could act referentially.

"Dear Pop, Perryy wrote: I do not understand it at all, except they are very definite as to what will happen to me if they do not get the money.

If B is positive definite, then B−1 is positive definite as well and can be decomposed as B−1=(B−1/2) T B−1/2, where the matrix square root B−1/2is symmetric and positive definite.

This information is as definite as tips can be.

Patients were classified as definite TBM if the CSF was smear positive for acid-fast bacilli and/or culture positive for M. tuberculosis.

An anomaly was coded as definite only if a physician considered the diagnosis certain or if confirmed by surgery or laboratory tests.

Events were categorized as definite VTE if death from VTE was confirmed on the death certificate or if there was recorded evidence from investigations such as ultrasound venography ventilation perfusion lung scans or computed tomography pulmonary angiography.

Patients were classified as definite TB if sputum collected at recruitment grew acid-fast bacilli in liquid culture (Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube, MGIT; BD Microbiology Systems, USA), which was identified as Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex [ 29].

TBM was defined as "definite" if acid-fast bacilli were seen in the CSF.

Malignancies were defined as "definite" if a malignancy was reported on a biopsy report or from an oncologist or radiation oncologist.

A pulmonary embolism was defined as definite if computed tomography/angiography of the chest or ventilation-perfusion scintigraphy showed a characteristic intraluminal filling defect.