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A danger remained of deriving a kind of imperative from an indicative.
The 3.4-to-one offer, BHP's first official proposal made under a deadline imposed by U.K. regulators, is an improvement from an indicative overture in November in which it proposed a price of three to one, which was summarily rejected by Rio as too low.
Even with non-causal content, a counterfactual conditional in the subjunctive mood, e.g., 'if there had been a triangle then there would have been a circle' seems to mean something very different from an indicative one, 'if there was a triangle then there was a circle' (Lewis, 1973; Stalnaker, 1968).
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Recovery of E. coli from food is an indicative of possible presence of enteropathogenic and/or toxigenic microorganism which could constitute a public health hazard (Soomro et al. 1996).
In November Biffa said it had rebuffed an indicative proposal from Montagu and HgCapital.
The Addicks were last week the subject of an indicative offer from Zabeel Investments, who had recently been linked with buying Newcastle.
In response, Capital said that, in the absence of an indicative offer from Simon, it continued to "believe that it is not appropriate to provide SPG with the non-public due diligence information it has requested".
Allied Domecq said that it had received an "indicative proposal" from a consortium led by the U.S. winemaker Constellation about a possible bid.
Furthermore, the curcumin nanosuspension displayed the natural intense yellow color from curcumin, which could be an indicative of the curcumin incorporation into the nanoparticle dispersion.
The person reliability derived from Rasch model analysis was an indicative of internal consistency among all items within the same domain, which is analogous to the Cronbach's coefficient Alpha.
Far from being a benefit indicative of a forward-thinking, female-friendly business model, offering to fund egg-freezing to women in a corporate setting seems to make several assumptions – both about their current thoughts, and their future plans.
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