Sentence examples for mistaken lines from inspiring English sources

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Thienpont began by going over "common wrong answers" — incorrect solutions that many students arrived at by following predictable but mistaken lines of reasoning.

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In a detailed review, HitFix's Melina Newman denounced its lyrical content: "Even though they never are so blatant about it that booty call subtext can't go right over their tween audience's head, there's no mistaking lines like "if we get together, don't let the pictures ever leave your phone" for anyone who's 13 or up.

If I am not mistaken, the line is from the Wordsworth poem "My Heart Leaps Up," and the correct wording is: "The Child is father of the Man".

On receiving a diagram of the court from Naismith, Baer mistook dotted lines, indicating the areas in which players might best execute team play, to be restraining lines, with the result that the forwards, centres, and guards were confined to specified areas.

The Labour party's biggest donor, the Unite union, played down the impact of Miliband's "mistake" line.

Music critics were initially confused by the line "I wanna have groupies" in the chorus; mistaking the line as saying "I wanna have boobies".

Australia and Germany will contest the bronze, which will no doubt please Cameron McCallum, who I suspect is from Down Under: "Just wondering why you're getting so excited about about a guaranteed bronze," says McCallum, mistaking this line "The British Yngling crew -- Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson -- have now guaranteed at least bronze" for excitement.

At another, she urged a close-up look at a bit of detail that could easily have been mistaken for a line of purple paint on white.

More specifically the inaccurate, mistaken, cheap throw-away lines that pass as arguments against positivism (and frequently against the Enlightenment tradition that positivism defends) do not do justice to anyone, much less to trainee science teachers who are increasingly required to convey something to their own students about the nature of science.

But the "market test" is proving such commentaries mistaken, as countries are lining up to negotiate FTAs.

And on to a Friday night in Gijon in Asturias, where, if I'm not mistaken, the usual Continental line-up of promenaders and sophisticates has been kidnapped and replaced by what look like Britons but with better suntans.

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