Sentence examples for indicative in the from inspiring English sources

Bellwether seats, he says, "are indicative in the sense that the typical marginal has a Labour bit and a Conservative bit, if one is talking about Lab-Con marginals, and so they are, in microcosm, a reasonably broad representation, at least of England".

Another construction that replaces the subjunctive by the imperfect indicative in the "if" clause is normal in Catalan and in French as well as in Corsica and Sardinia: Catalan si estudiaves ho sabries ('if you studied, you would know'); French si j'avais assez d'argent, je l'achèterais ('if I had enough money, I'd buy it'); Logudorian si denía abba deo dia buffare ('if I had water, I'd drink').

Negative levels are in contrast indicative, in the present study, of hypomethylation.

The clinical examination was indicative in the course of the social security case examination.

This was the only pain indicative in the present study and it was not in-line with the changes observed in pain scores and physiological variables.

Scans of the posterior area are more indicative in ascertaining the severity of bronchiolitis.

However, an "indicative" timetable in the document suggests 2030.

Babcock has made two indicative offers in the past fortnight; its latest bid values VT at about £1.25bn, or 700p a share.

In an indicative moment in the second act, Kleban's oldest friend and first love, Sophie, suggests to him that his words have always been better than his music.

The whole concept of five-year plans is strange to us, given the West's poor experience of indicative planning in the 1950s and 1960s.

Britain, with its fragmented unions and employers' groups, was a conspicuous exception, and its attempt to mimic French indicative planning in the 1960s was a conspicuous failure.