Sentence examples for formal based from inspiring English sources

Early work, such as that of Joos (1961), presents five possible styles of spoken English ranked in order of their linguistic formality – from 'intimate' (most informal) to 'frozen' (most formal) – based upon certain contextual and linguistic characteristics.

The final arrangements are purely formal, based on an intuitive sense of style, color, content and scale.

We present a method for transforming a KADS conceptual model (informal) into an operational model (formal) based on high-level Petri nets.

They were all conceptual innovators, whose poetry tended to be abstract, introspective, formal, based on imagination.

Such theories usually propose axioms about these entities in question, spelled out in some formal language based on some system of formal logic.

The president, in consultation with Congress, will establish a formal base realignment and closure commission later this year that will review the Pentagon list and develop its own recommendations, which must be finished by Sept. 8, 2005.

Bill Davenport is a ringleader here, touching on many formal bases in a still-life painting of vintage paperbacks, a plaster sculpture of a snowman and a child-size pink mitten emblazoned with the word "go".

The Taliban opened an office in Qatar which was meant to be a formal base for meetings and was welcomed by Washington, but the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, shut down the process after Taliban spokesmen presented the villa as a de-facto embassy for a government-in-exile.

Indeed, they all embody Meier's description of his goals: "I am expanding and elaborating on what I consider to be the formal base of the Modern movement.…I work with volume and surface, I manipulate forms in light, changes in scale and view, movement and stasis".

For example, one might define aesthetic properties as those having an evaluative component, whose perception involves the perception of certain formal base properties, such as shape and color (De Clercq 2002).

"The more formal designs based on European models can be very stark and severe," he said.