Sentence examples for formal mistake from inspiring English sources

Thus we can imagine that a given computer is so designed that it systematically makes (what we regard as) a formal mistake M. In this case, the machine would be unable to detect the mistake M, 'for M would constitute one of the laws by which the automaton detects errors' (Nunn 1978, 347).

When he refused to take antipsychotics, the psychiatrist had initiated a compulsory medication order, which the County Medical Officer then rejected because of a formal mistake.

2. Make it Formal: A major mistake is to allow the process of due diligence to become somewhat informal.

Partners keep a formal record of mistakes and debate them, in the hope that they won't repeat such blunders.

The false association, for instance, of middle Appalachian English with informal register mistakes "formal" ways of speaking with what we call "standard" English.

While we often talked about errors among ourselves, dissecting the events with great precision, we also went out of our way to avoid any formal documentation of mistakes we had seen.

In a book that sets out to explain why a poet makes particular formal choices, however, the mistake is more serious, because it replaces the complex relationships among a poem's elements with just-so stories in which it always turns out — surprise!

Wilshaw also said that it had been a mistake to abolish formal testing for primary and early secondary school years pupils at key stages one and three.

Even if a study involves formal psychiatric evaluation, practitioners often mistake BPD for other conditions (for example, chronic major depression or bipolar disorder) [ 6].

McClymont on Thursday tweeted "a formal apology to come re mistaken identity".

Without formal management training, he makes mistakes and describes what he learns from them.