Sentence examples for more formal version from inspiring English sources

In essence the theater is a more formal version of the bleachers.

Now, Mr. Abraham, 57, is running for the City Council, a new role, or perhaps just a more formal version of what he has done for decades.

The proposed tests for five-year-olds in England would be a more formal version of tests already set informally by some teachers.

He and Rosetta are planning to have more children after a summer wedding, a more formal version of the City Hall ceremony they had last year.

The show, which flopped when it was shown in Turkey, was dubbed for Arab audiences into colloquial Arabic, not the more formal version of the language spoken on news shows.

Mr. Blair had pressed for a pact between the United States and France that would have halted espionage operations on each other's soil, a more formal version of America's "gentleman's agreement" with Britain.

The papers referred to Kit and Rafe by their legal names, Katherine and Raphael, as if the more formal versions of them were the ones who were divorcing — their birth certificates were divorcing!

In effect, this point is just a more-formal version of the point about quantification that was made back in section 2.2.

A number of tweets put out just after Friday's phonecall by Rouhani's official English-language Twitter account, reflecting the friendly and bantering tone of the conversation, were deleted a few hours later and replaced with a more formal, less detailed version.

However, lexical density estimate for the tape-based monologic tasks was significantly higher than the live version; this suggests that test takers used more formal language in the tape-based version.

Version two, a slightly more formal take, was more about structure and tailoring than cling (see Roland Mouret's galaxy dress and Victoria Beckham's first collections).